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The concept of a national championship in college football dates to the early years of the sport in the late 19th century. [13] Some of the earliest contemporaneous rankings can be traced to Caspar Whitney in Harper's Weekly, J. Parmly Paret in Outing, [14] Charles Patterson, [15] and New York newspaper The Sun. [16]
The College Football Playoff (CFP) is an annual knockout invitational tournament to determine a national champion for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the highest level of college football competition in the United States.
From 1978 to 2005, the game was called the NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship, during the period when the FCS was known as NCAA Division I-AA. The game serves as the final match of an annual postseason bracket tournament between top teams in FCS. Since 2013, 24 teams normally participate in the tournament, with some teams receiving ...
NCAA Division I champions are the winners of annual top-tier competitions among American college sports teams. This list also includes championships classified by the NCAA as "National Collegiate", the organization's official branding of championship events open to members of more than one of the NCAA's three legislative and competitive divisions.
The participating teams in the College Football Playoff National Championship are determined by two semifinal games, hosted by an annual rotation of bowls commonly known as the New Year's Six. Thus, the teams to compete in the final are not directly selected by a selection committee, as had been the format used for the BCS National Championship ...
A list of NCAA college football seasons at the highest level, now known as the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), since Division I split for football only in 1978. . The split created the new Divisions I-A and I-AA; in 2006, they were respectively renamed FBS and FCS (with FCS standing for Football Championship Subdivisi
The following is a list of College Football Playoff games. For the 2014–15 through 2023–24 seasons, the semi-finals rotate between the Rose, Sugar, Cotton, Orange, Fiesta, and Peach Bowls, with each hosting a semi-final every third year. A standalone National Championship game is held roughly a week later. [1]
The 2019–20 CFP selection committee was chaired by Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens.Its other members were Iowa athletic director Gary Barta, former Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer, former The Arizona Republic reporter Paola Boivin, Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione, former head coach Ken Hatfield, Robert Morris University president Christopher B. Howard, former NFL player ...