The first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff started with a whimper as the first round delivered four games decided by double-digits, sparking furious debate over the selection and seeding criteria.

College Football Playoff, the first ever 12-team tournament in the history of the sport, is complete. The Ohio State Buckeyes have won the National Championship. Unfortunately that means we all have to wait nearly seven months before watching the next college football game.

In this exercise, Florida would replace Tennessee as the third SEC team into the playoff field in 2025.

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.

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.

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?

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.

This year, Boise State was the non-power representative for the College Football Playoff. Next year, it will be Tulane, but it will be a very different situation than the Broncos'. Boise State got a bye and was actually ranked inside the top-12. That won't be the case next season.

Athletic directors from the SEC and Big Ten will meet to discuss major issues in college football and other NCAA sports at a conference on Feb. 19, according to

One college football analyst sees a particular Texas Longhorns wide receiver as a major winner in the College Football Playoff.

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."