The Ohio State Buckeyes weren't the only winners of Monday night's college football championship. The big picture: The first iteration of the 12-team College Football Playoff (CFP) set records in TV ratings,
The Athletic's Stewart Mandel is a preseason Penn State believer, placing the Nittany Lions atop his too-early top 25 for 2025. "I'm skeptical they can actually pull it off," Mandel writes, "but on paper, James Franklin's team deserves that status given how many players are returning."
We grew up on a college football season that climaxed on New Year's Day. Is there a way back to that while keeping the excitement of the past month?
Geoff Schwartz is looking ahead to the 2025 College Football Playoff, and he's got his money on the two teams that he thinks could win it all next season.
Even with a 12-team College Football Playoff, who’s No. 3 at the end of the season still matters. So does No. 13. And No. 18. And No. 25.
Ohio State came out on top in the national championship on Monday, outlasting a late Notre Dame comeback push to win 34-23. The game brought an end to the first edition of the expanded College Football Playoff, which features 12 teams vying for the title instead of four.
On Thursday, Fox Sports college football analyst Joel Klatt shared his "way-too-early" top 10 rankings for the 2025 season on his podcast, " The Joel Klatt Show ." At No. 1, he named the Penn State Nittany Lions, who recently fell to Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff semifinals and finished the season 13-3.
The top nine programs, from Ohio State to Texas A&M, are valued at $1 billion or more. Last month, CNBC ranked the top 75 college sports programs by value, and Ohio State and Texas were ranked Nos. 1 and 2.
The championship title was the most-watched game of the season, though had far less viewers than last year's game.
Penn State is a far-from-perfect product after making a deep College Football Playoff run but looking far from championship material.
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