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.

Notre Dame and Ohio State fans have had to endure unprecedented travel demands throughout college football's first 12-team playoff to reach Monday night's national championship game.

While discourse around the future of the College Football Playoff format continues, a major change is not expected to occur before the 2025 season, according to a report from Yahoo Sports' Ross Dellenger on Friday.

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.

The CFP is a wondrous bounty of football joy, game after game of (sometimes) thrilling football matchups that range from the unexpected to the sublime. The problem is that the expanded CFP now requires four weeks’ worth of games, not two, and fitting those games into the most crowded space of the year is no easy task.

The NCAA said its rules "do not prevent a student-athlete from unenrolling from an institution, enrolling at a new institution and competing." immediately.”

In college football, the team that scores more in the last four minutes of the second quarter and first four minutes of third wins 70% of the time. Nobody plays better in the “middle eight” than Notre Dame.

There's only one game remaining in what has been the longest college football season in history, which started way back on Aug. 24, 2024, when Georgia Tech upset then-No. 10 Florida State 24-21 in Ireland.

Athletic directors at Ohio State and Florida push back against rabid college football fan bases who want change, and win the moment.

And with a nod to c ollege football’s 12-team playoff, which concludes Monday when Ohio State and Notre Dame play for the national title, here are 12 reasons why I hate – yes, I said it! – college football: The move by college football to expand the playoff system to 12 teams was all about greed. Period.

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