In 10 seasons, top-seeded teams in both the AFC and NFC were 14-4 in the postseason, combining for a 28-8 overall record. Top seeds won by an average of 14.1 points per game, and their losses came by an average of 5.8 points per game.

Before the national title game Monday, college football’s power brokers will meet to discuss the debut of the 12-team playoff and what needs to be tweaked. Or trashed. Don’t expect anything Sunday. Too soon.

Ohio State in the College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday in Atlanta. The Buckeyes are seeking their first title since 2014 -- the first year of the expanded four-team CFP -- while Notre Dame is trying to snap a championship drought that dates back to 1988.

Notre Dame and Ohio State fans have had to endure unprecedented travel demands throughout college football's first 12-team playoff to reach Monday night's national championship game.

The CFP is a wondrous bounty of football joy, game after game of (sometimes) thrilling football matchups that range from the unexpected to the sublime. The problem is that the expanded CFP now requires four weeks’ worth of games, not two, and fitting those games into the most crowded space of the year is no easy task.

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In college football, the team that scores more in the last four minutes of the second quarter and first four minutes of third wins 70% of the time. Nobody plays better in the “middle eight” than Notre Dame.

There's only one game remaining in what has been the longest college football season in history, which started way back on Aug. 24, 2024, when Georgia Tech upset then-No. 10 Florida State 24-21 in Ireland.

Leave it be. Enjoy the show. Let a good thing be a good thing. This 12-team College Football Playoff format works beautifully.

The College Football Playoff National Championship is finally here. The first ever 12-team format to the playoff is almost complete as the Ohio State Buckeyes face off against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

The Kentucky Wildcats had one of the worst seasons of the Mark Stoops era in 2024, finishing with a record of 4-8 overall, as well as 1-7 in SEC play, both of which were the lowest win totals since Stoops’ first season in 2013. Kentucky will likely have some pressure to win in 2025, which will be season No. 13 for Stoops in Lexington.