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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.
On April 26, 2006, the NCAA announced that they were relaxing the rules for eligibility starting with the 2006–07 bowl season, particularly in light of the new twelve-game college football season. Now, teams with a minimum non-losing, or .500, record can qualify for bowl games if their conference has a contract with a bowl game.
The tournament was structured as a single-elimination bracket tournament, with 12 teams playing a total of 11 games.The first round featured the fifth-highest-ranked conference champion (Clemson) and seven at large bids, seeded based on the final CFP rankings, [4] which were released after conference championship games had been played.
The College Football Playoff has undergone a significant change, with a new 12-team format, which paves the way for the top teams to continue their quest for the national title in a more expansive ...
In the 2024 college football season, 12 teams will qualify for the new College Football Playoff bracket. The top five conference champions will earn automatic bids. The remaining seven remaining ...
The 12-team College Football Playoff has given us more games and also juggled the bowl schedule. Bowl season began on Dec. 14 and now ends on Jan. 4 for the non-playoff bowls.
The College Football Playoff (CFP) selection committee announced its final team rankings for the season on December 8, 2024. [25] [26] For the 2024–25 season, the playoffs were expanded from four teams to twelve teams. The top five ranked conference champions were selected to compete, along with the seven highest ranked remaining teams.
In the first-round of the College Football Playoff, teams seeded No. 5 through No. 12 will engage in elimination games. The action kicks off with a Friday night showdown between No. 7 Notre Dame ...