Sports College Football analyst Smoke Dixon reacts to SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey's recent comments about wanting Congress to adopt a national standard of college sports regulations after the NCAA settlement.

Leave it be. Enjoy the show. Let a good thing be a good thing. This 12-team College Football Playoff format works beautifully.

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.

Notre Dame's athletic director said "I think there's a chance" there will be tweaks to the way the College Football Playoff awards byes next year — an issue that will be discussed this weekend but that would need unanimous approval from the 10 conferences and the Fighting Irish.

The CFP has quickly evolved into a sub-beat of sorts in the college sports world. Governance, format, revenue sharing and more have consumed increasingly more column inches over the last few years as the Power Four,

While the SEC licks its wounds from a bummer of a College Football Playoff showing, it's also in the midst of a dominant men's basketball season.

The ACC got two schools into the first year of the extended College Football Playoff…barely. There were debates about whether the Power 4 conference deserved two or should just have the conference champion in and leave it at one.

Greg McElroy believes the first ever 12-team, expanded College Football Playoff ending with Ohio State on top was the perfect way to introduce the new format. During the latest episode of Always College Football with Greg McElroy,

Week 1 of the 2025 college football season features a loaded slate, including LSU at Clemson, Notre Dame at Miami and Alabama at Florida State, among others. LSU-Clemson could be a top-five matchup, as could the biggest headliner: Manning and Texas visiting Ohio State in a matchup of the 2024 national champion and our early 2025 favorite.

The first 12-team Playoff had a lot of great moments. It could also use some tweaks. In the short term, leaders are unlikely to make major changes to the format for the 2025 season. The bigger stuff is more likely to come in 2026, when the new contracts kick in and the SEC and Big Ten basically get to do whatever they want.

In or out? A verdict on which of the College Football Playoff qualifiers will be back in the bracket next season.

For the last two seasons, former Arizona tight end Rob Gronkowski has served as a master of ceremonies for the LA Bowl in Inglewood, Calif. Although the public associates him far more closely with his NFL career, the partnership keeps Gronkowski connected to the college game.