College Football Playoff bracket: College basketball experts predict national champion from 12-team field

College football will do its best college basketball impression beginning this weekend as the College Football Playoff begins in earnest Friday. The first-ever 12-team field will be featured NCAA Tournament-style with its own fancy little bracket in a single-elimination format. 

It’s not quite a 68-team bracket, but it’s got potential to produce plenty of chaos similar to March Madness — might I pitch December of Disarray?! — which is where we college hoops experts specialize.

As such, I did my best Ron Burgundy impersonation and grabbed my conch shell to summon those who are most familiar with bracket play and single-elimination tournaments like the NCAA Tournament. The CBS Sports college basketball team assembled, and their responses are below for every pick in every upcoming game leading to their champion predictions.

Let’s have a look now at how the hoops team sees the first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff bracket playing out. 

College Football Playoff bracket picks

Gary Parrish

Oregon has been and still is the sport’s best team — one with a 13-0 record featuring victories over the schools that are seeded sixth (Penn State) and eighth (Ohio State) in the first ever 12-team College Football Playoff.

The Ducks are just three more wins away from a national title.

I think they’ll get it.

And, to get it, I believe they’ll eliminate Ohio State, Arizona State and Georgia (in that order) to finish 16-0 and remove themselves from the list of best programs to never win a national championship. The hypothetical matchup with Arizona State in the semifinals would be especially cool, in part because it would pit two former Memphis assistants — Oregon’s Dan Lanning and Arizona State’s Kenny Dillingham — against each…

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Author : Kyle Boone

Publish date : 2024-12-19 15:40:00

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