So deep was the consternation, so high were the stakes, that conferences took to firing public salvos across the College Football ... more transparent means of selecting its playoff participants.

A four-team College Football Playoff would have omitted the nation's best team from the bracket. The bigger playoff saved this Ohio State vs. Notre Dame matchup. Try now, after what we've seen ...

Ohio State and Notre Dame — remember? They’re the ones still alive in the College Football Playoff — don’t even kick off for another few days, and here we are looking ahead to 2025.

The 12-team College Football Playoff format saved Ohio State and Notre Dame. Good for them. Good for us, too, that the boredom of the four-team playoff became relegated to the past, and the ...

The new format for the College Football Playoff, a thrilling departure from the norm, saw 12 teams battling it out in a round-by-round elimination to secure a chance at the national title.

And then there were two. After starting with 12 teams, the College Football Playoff has reached the national championship game, with the winners of the Orange Bowl and Cotton Bowl semifinal games ...

Neither Ohio State nor Notre Dame would have made a four-team playoff based on the final College Football Playoff committee rankings. The Irish ranked No. 5, and the Buckeyes were No. 6 ...

expanding the College Football Playoff worked. The grand experiment to allow more teams to play for the national championship wasn’t perfect, but it ended up where it was supposed to ...

The 2024 College Football Playoff is down to the title game. The new, expanded 12-team bracket started with byes for four teams and four first-round games hosted by Texas football, Penn State ...

The first 12-team College Football Playoff is back to a familiar spot with four teams remaining in the hunt for a national championship. Only this time, obviously, they had to play to get here.

On Sunday, the eve of the College Football Playoff national championship game between the Ohio State Buckeyes and Notre Dame Fighting Irish, the decision-makers who have the ultimate authority ...