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The 2024-25 College Football Playoff bracket has now evolved into the semifinals with the first 12-team version of the tournament progressing quickly. With the quarterfinals now in the books — and only four teams remaining — we are closer than ever to crowning a national champion.
Let’s take a look at how we got to this point.
The first round saw (7) Notre Dame win 27-17 over (10) Indiana, (6) Penn State pick up a destructive 38-10 victory over (11) SMU, (5) Texas claw back to decisively prevail 38-24 over (12) Clemson and (8) Ohio State cruise to a devastating 42-17 win over (9) Tennessee.
The same four teams wound up prevailing in the quarterfinals with every conference champion that received a bye into the second round ultimately falling to programs playing their second games in as many weeks.
What’s still left to determine is which team is most likely to win the national title. Seven of our 11 experts had (1) Oregon becoming the first 17-0 team in college football history. As LA Knight would say, “Nah-nah.” Ohio State has taken over as the decisive favorite in our voting block with all 11 experts choosing the Buckeyes to hoist their first national championship since 2014-15, the first year of the College Football Playoff.
Will it be another clean sweep for the favorites, which have gone 8-0 straight up (7-1 against the spread) through the first two rounds of these playoffs, or might someone finally spring an upset next week?
With 134 FBS teams now whittled down to four, all that’s left to do is make our final picks. CBS Sports experts did exactly that below. We’ve spent months on end watching, analyzing and projecting…
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Author : Adam Silverstein
Publish date : 2025-01-03 01:19:00
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