Reflecting on Impact of 12-Team College Football Playoff

What we learned from the first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff
Did it hurt the sport's regular season? Do rivalries still matter? Here's what Nicole Auerbach took away from the first year of the expanded CFP.
Teams with most No. 1 appearances in College Football Playoff rankings
Making it to No. 1 in the College Football Playoff rankings means everything. What teams have made it to the top of the polls up to now?
Year 1 of the 12-team College Football Playoff is coming to a close. Was the expansion a success?
The CFP will never likely surpass the NFL in the attention economy, but the march through the first 12-team Playoff has been a positive one.
Lessons from inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff: Format is flawed, home environments provide boost
The Ohio State football program captured history with claiming the first-ever College Football Playoff National Championship when the four-team model made its debut in the 2014 season. A decade later,
Ranking the best champions of the College Football Playoff era, starting with Alabama, LSU
Since the start of the College Football Playoff in 2014, there have been 11 national champions. Which were the best? We ranked them all.
College Football Playoff: Which non-playoff teams could win their conference in 2025?
Under the current 12-team College Football Playoff format, the five highest-ranked conference champions will make the tournament every single year. If we wanted to tab five non-playoff teams from this past year to win their league,
Reflecting on the Impact of 12-Team College Football Playoff
The inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff sparked debates about its expansion and impact on the sport. Mark Zinno joins to discuss his take on the playoff.
Where Penn State Lands in the 2025 Way-Too-Early College Football Rankings
The Athletic's Stewart Mandel is a preseason Penn State believer, placing the Nittany Lions atop his too-early top 25 for ...
College Football Schedule - Week 1 Postseason, 2025 - ESPN
All scheduled NCAAF games played in week 1 Postseason, Dec 13 - Jan 21, 2025 on ESPN. Includes game times, TV listings and ...
The Big Ten owns college football? In the SEC, them’s fightin’ words
Time to take all these scalawags and carpetbaggers to school. Those scoundrels who forget the SEC’s true ownership of college ...
Report card time. College football grades for all 134 teams. Who got an A?
With the college football season complete, it's time to evaluate the performance of schools in the Bowl Subdivision. Our ...
Regrading college football's first-year head coaches
How did the new coaches at Alabama, Michigan and other schools do? We look at the hires and the performances in 2024.
Quinn Ewers, Ashton Jeanty among notable names in ESPN’s top 100 college football players
Six Texas Longhorns, the second-most of any school, made the outlet’s list of top players from the 2024-2025 season. SMU, ...
How did college football coaches vote in the US LBM Coaches Poll? See every ballot in the final Top 25 rankings
The college football season is over and the US LBM Coaches Poll has been released. How did each coach vote? We reveal every ...
College football rankings: Texas, Georgia, Miami lead way-too-early top 25 ahead of 2025 season
Year 2 of the 12-team College Football Playoff era in the 2025 season. In the way-too-early top 25, you shouldn't need formal ...