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Icon for www.si.comSports Illustrated · Dec 23, 2024

College Football Playoff Bracket 2024/25

Check out the latest College Football playoff bracket for the 2024/25 season on Sports Illustrated. Including the dates for each round and the latest news on the NCAAF.
Sports Illustrated on MSN.com · 1d

College Football Playoff Discussions Center on Straight Seeding, Conference Makeup

Commissioners met last week on the 2025 version of the playoff with more decisions looming ahead of an agreement to give the SEC and Big Ten more control.
The Detroit News · 6d

Thursday's college football: Division II expands playoff field

Indianapolis – The NCAA Division II football playoffs will expand from 28 to 32 teams beginning this season to accommodate the format change that will award 16 conferences automatic bids.
Yahoo Sports · 8d

College Football Playoff schedule for 2025-26 postseason announced

The College Football Playoff will get things started with the first round games being played on campus sites on the weekend of Dec. 19. Like last season, there will be one Friday night first-round game on Friday, Dec. 19. The remaining first-round games will be played on Saturday, Dec. 20. Times for the first-round games will be determined later.
Associated Press News on MSN.com · 6d

Division II expands football playoffs from 28 to 32 teams to accommodate automatic qualifiers

The NCAA Division II football playoffs will expand from 28 to 32 teams beginning this season to accommodate for the format change that will award 16 conferences automatic bids.
USA TODAY Sports on MSN.com · 1d

Big Ten college football coaches rankings: Ryan Day leads then difficult decisions

The ranking of the best coaches in the Big Ten starts with an obvious choice at No.1 but there's plenty of difficult decisions to make on the list.
Athlon Sports on MSN.com · 3d

Greg McElroy Names College Football Team That Could Be a 'Fringe Playoff Contender'

Now, other teams are eager to join those that have already made a playoff appearance. ESPN's Greg McElroy mentioned on his podcast, "Always College Football," that he believes the Texas A&M Aggies could contend for a playoff spot by the end of the season.
Icon for 247sports.com247Sports.com · Jan 15, 2025

College Football Playoff dark horses for 2025 season feature Florida, Illinois as 12-team format enters Year 2

Year 1 of the 12-team College Football Playoff is almost complete ... first team to run the table in the newly expanded playoff format. The bracket began with 12 teams last month, with a handful ...
USA TODAY Sports on MSN.com · 3d

Big Ten powers lead too-early college football Top 25 rankings after spring practice

Spring football is almost in the books and the transfer portal has reshaped many rosters. A look at our too-early Top 25 for the upcoming season.
Icon for www.themorningsun.comThe Morning Sun · 23d

Oregon tops Week 2 College Football Playoff rankings and Georgia drops out of the bracket

Undefeated Oregon stayed on top in the second batch of College Football Playoff rankings, while Tuesday’s poll shoved Georgia completely out of the bracket after its lopsided loss to Mississippi.
Sportskeeda · 8d

Josh Pate addresses TV ratings potentially playing a part in College Football Playoff

The 12-team College Football Playoff bracket is currently being discussed, with potential alterations to the structure.
Icon for www.nytimes.comThe New York Times · 7d

College Football Playoff meetings wrap up with big questions still unanswered

The fourth in-person College Football Playoff meeting of 2025 ended with a familiar result: No decisions on the three biggest issues, creating more pressure to meet an unofficial and perhaps ...
azcentral.com on MSN.com · 8d

When is College Football Playoff in 2025-26? Dates, times, TV channel, sites for CFP games

College Football Playoff 2025-26 schedule, dates, times, TV channel, sites for quarterfinal, semifinal and national championship game next season.
USA TODAY · 8d

What Lane Kiffin, Jaxson Dart did after Ole Miss loss to Florida that derailed playoff bid

Ole Miss narrowly missed College Football Playoff. Lane Kiffin says playoff system 'doesn't have it right.' He favors a 16-team bracket with no automatic bids. Jaxson Dart had one question for coach Lane Kiffin after Mississippi’s gutting loss at Florida last November.
WJCL · 8d

CFP, ESPN announce schedule for 2025-26 College Football Playoff

ESPN will also broadcast both CFP semifinals and the 2026 CFP national championship, scheduled for Monday, Jan. 19, at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. The title game returns to Miami for the first time since 2021 and marks the second straight year the championship is being held in a repeat host city, following Atlanta’s turn in both 2018 and 2025.
Icon for dailyiowan.comUniveristy of Iowa Daily Iowan · Apr 1, 2025

Point/Counterpoint | What college sport has the best postseason?

The NCAA Tournament Bracket Challenge is an exciting 68-team do-or-die ... Fans of the sport know this as the College Football Playoffs. Originally, the new playoff picture picked the four best teams to compete against one another. This new format led ...
Icon for www.cbssports.comCBSSports.com · 27d

Is college football undervalued? America's second-most popular game still leaving billions on the table

Meanwhile, the championship teams in the College Football Playoff each get $20 million ... NCAA to negotiate for rights fees to expand the bracket? The San Jose Mercury News' Jon Wilner suggested ...
Icon for www.espn.comESPN · Dec 13, 2024

College Football Playoff Bracket 2024

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Icon for fansided.comFanSided · Jun 29, 2023

College Football Playoff Bracket 24/25

Check out the latest College Football playoff bracket for the 2024/25 season on Fansided. Including the dates for each round and the latest news.
Icon for www.mysanantonio.comSan Antonio Express-News · 7d

Division II expands football playoffs from 28 to 32 teams to accommodate automatic qualifiers

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA Division II football ... bracket. Division II football was the only team sport across all three divisions that did not use automatic qualification. The playoff ...
Icon for www.tennessean.comTennessean · 22d

Why College Football Playoff struggles to match March Madness splendor

March Madness just does not miss. In contrast, college football supplies maybe the best regular season in all of sports, but its playoff often falls flat. College Football Playoff cannot match ...
Soy Fútbol on MSN.com · 1d

2025 NCAA College Football Playoff Predictions: Projecting the 12-Team Bracket After Spring Practice

As spring practices conclude, the landscape of the 2025 NCAA College Football Playoff is taking shape. Here's a look at the projected 12-team bracket and first-round matchups.
Icon for www.nytimes.comThe New York Times · 2d

NFC playoffs bracket update

The NFL wild-card weekend kicked off Saturday with the 49ers beating the Seahawks 41-23 in the 2 seed-7 seed matchup of the NFC playoffs. Check in with The Athletic for all the latest news ...
WIBW · 7d

NCAA Division II football expands playoff bracket

In short, NCAA Division II football will follow an “automatic qualification” model. That means if you win your conference, you receive an automatic bid to the postseason. Because there are 16 conferences, the playoffs were expanded to 32 teams so that the field would be 50% automatic qualifiers and 50% at-large bids instead of 57% and 43%.
Icon for awfulannouncing.comAwful Announcing · Dec 8, 2024

ESPN blasted for taking 34 minutes to reveal College Football Playoff bracket

with the ESPN women’s basketball tournament bracket reveal, and with ESPN’s reveal of the College Football Playoff bracket. And the latest case of the latter (and the first one involving a 12 ...
College Football Network on MSN.com · 2d

College Football Playoff Predictions: Projecting the 12-Team College Football Playoff Bracket After Spring Football

Less than four months remain before the 2025-26 college football season kicks off. With the conclusion of spring practices across the country, the teams that will be contenders for a national championship are slowly coming into view.
Icon for www.startribune.comStar Tribune · Dec 8, 2024

College Football Playoff's first 12-team bracket is set with Oregon No. 1 and SMU in, Alabama out

12-team College Football Playoff brings with it a promise to be bigger, more exciting, more lucrative. Perfect or 100% fair? Well, nobody ever believed that. The first expanded playoff bracket ...
Icon for 247sports.com247Sports.com · Mar 20, 2025

College Football Playoff bracket-busters: Florida, Miami among teams with 2025 Cinderella story potential

With March Madness underway, the college football world looks on and awaits its turn to build a bracket. The next edition of the College Football Playoff projects to be another thrilling ...
Bleacher Report · 7d

Ole Miss' Lane Kiffin Wants 16-Team CFP Bracket, 'Less Chance for Error' After Snub

Lane Kiffin is ready for a change to the College Football Playoff format after Ole Miss was left out of the 12-team Playoff in 2024. The Rebels head coach suggested increasing the field to 16 teams, citing several reasons for why the change would work better.
FanSided on MSN.com · 8d

Potential new College Football Playoff format would stomp out the little guys for good

The SEC and the Big Ten are doing their best to monopolize the College Football Playoff format as best as they can. Which means the smaller schools are set up to get screwed over. They already had the short end of the stick.
CBS Sports · 29d

These eight hypothetical College Football Playoff brackets would make for sensational Final Fours

NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four has a case for the most stacked ever. The last time four 1-seeds reached the Final Four was 2008. Amazingly, all four national semifinalists rank inside the top 10 teams in KenPom history.
Bleacher Report · 9d

CFP Management Committee Reportedly Could Change Bracket Selection Process

The College Football Playoff's management committee will weigh changes to the selection process for the postseason bracket at this week's annual review meeting, according to The Athletic's Chris Vannini.