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Later this month, either Ohio State or Notre Dame will make history as the first College Football Playoff national champion from the 12-team era. Both teams will have done so blazing a four-game playoff path that started with a home game in the first round and included taking out conference champions from the Big Ten (Ohio State over Oregon) and SEC (Notre Dame over Georgia) in the quarterfinals, as well as the runners-up (Penn State and Texas) from those leagues in the semifinals.
That one-of-a-kind path through the College Football Playoff in what will be a 16-game season will automatically qualify either Ohio State or Notre Dame as one of the most resilient and impressive national championship teams in the CFP era. But until we see how things play out on Jan. 20 in Atlanta, it will be difficult to know exactly where the winner slots among the national champions we have seen since the format debuted in 2014.
We had 10 years of the CFP with a four-team format, and each of those 10 champions have their own claim as one of the best teams of the era. However, there can only be one No. 1, and that’s our goal for today as we rank each of the 10 champions from the four-team playoff era against each other.
Some of the process here was scientific, utilizing objective ratings for each title as a way to set some tiers in place. The final decisions, however, relied much more on context that includes the makeup of the roster, the team’s path to winning it all and more. It’s an imperfect task splitting hairs between teams that each finished at the top of the mountain, but doing so highlights the kind of teams that emerged from the four-team CFP era as the sport’s first-ever FBS playoff continued to evolve across the first decade of its existence.
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Author : Chip Patterson
Publish date : 2025-01-14 16:17:00
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