Now that it’s all over and the Ohio State Buckeyes are the college football national champions, it can be definitively said: Expanding the College Football Playoff worked.

The first 12-team Playoff had a lot of great moments. It could also use some tweaks. In the short term, leaders are unlikely to make major changes to the format for the 2025 season. The bigger stuff is more likely to come in 2026, when the new contracts kick in and the SEC and Big Ten basically get to do whatever they want.

The 11 College Football Playoff games averaged 15.6 million viewers according to Nielsen, as audiences increased during each round.

Week 1 of the 2025 college football season features a loaded slate, including LSU at Clemson, Notre Dame at Miami and Alabama at Florida State, among others. LSU-Clemson could be a top-five matchup, as could the biggest headliner: Manning and Texas visiting Ohio State in a matchup of the 2024 national champion and our early 2025 favorite.

For the last two seasons, former Arizona tight end Rob Gronkowski has served as a master of ceremonies for the LA Bowl in Inglewood, Calif. Although the public associates him far more closely with his NFL career, the partnership keeps Gronkowski connected to the college game.

Ohio State reigned supreme in the first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff, defeating Tennessee, Oregon, Texas and Notre Dame on its road to glory. Like most things in college sports right now,

Camper, a 6-foot-3, 203-pounder from Trinity Valley Community College, was a three-star JUCO prospect in the class of 2022. He ranked as the 33rd-best overall JUCO recruit as well as the 4th- best wide receiver, per 247Sports.

Automatic bids to the College Football Playoff in 2024 equated to automatic losses. Following the conclusion of the quarterfinal round of the initial 12-team playoff, all four of the teams that ...

The 2024 college football season is over, and that has many reflecting on the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff. One of the biggest issues many have with the playoff is the seeding. The top four seeds in the playoff were determined based on the highest-rated conference champions rather than simply identifying the four best teams.

The College Football Playoff's format is under the microscope after the national championship was decided following an uneven 12-team debut.

That led to what will be a noticeable change in the Tennessee high school football playoffs. The TSSAA Board of Control on Thursday approved a proposal that will alter first-round playoff pods and ...

With the annual College Football Officiating meetings beginning on Monday, one of the top items on the agenda is the potential creation of neutral, centralized replay for all CFP games, according to a report from CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd.