With just one game to go to close out the 2024-25 college football season, we’ve seen enough to call it: The inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff has been an undeniable success. There are minor issues that need to be addressed or tweaked,

Notre Dame and Ohio State fans have had to endure unprecedented travel demands throughout to reach Monday night’s national championship game.

It’s a busy weekend in Atlanta. Thousands of people are visiting for the College Football National Championship game on Monday.

Ohio State and Notre Dame bring big brands, with a Midwest mindset, to Monday's national championship game in Atlanta. Not everyone is happy about it.

ATLANTA (AP) — Ohio State wide receiver Jeremiah Smith was able to keep a team-first approach after having extra defensive attention make him almost invisible in the Buckeyes’ Cotton Bowl win over Texas in the College Football Playoff semifinals.

While the expanded playoff has mostly been a success, changing the landscape of the sport and providing a path for the top teams in the sport to prove themselves across the course of a season, rather than be eliminated by losing one game in the regular season, it still has its flaws.

College football's final AP Top 25 rankings of the 2024 season will release soon after Monday's College Football Playoff national championship, pitting Ohio State and Notre Dame in Atlanta. The culmination of a campaign filled with parity and several surprise teams making their first playoff appearances from various leagues will be settled inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium,

The Fighting Irish advanced to the game by beating No. 6 Penn State 27-24 in the Capital One Orange Bowl. Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman had extra motivation before the CFP semifinal, becoming " angry " after Nittany Lions head coach James Franklin poked fun at the now 39-year-old coach's youth.

For all the flag-planting of rivalry week, Ohio State is proving teams can overcome multiple losses (including the big one) on way to glory.

Eliminating the CFP’s rule designating the top four seeds and first-round byes to conference champions won't likely happen next year.

Notre Dame and Ohio State meet in the first final of the 12-team College Football Playoff at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.