The 2025 college football season is almost here.
With Week Zero less than two weeks away, here are 10 of the biggest storylines ahead of what could be a wide-open season after the first 12-team playoff.
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The second year of the 12-team College Football Playoff looks like it will be dominated by questions about its future.
There’s no resolution in sight regarding an agreement on the format after the 2025 season. The arguments about how the playoff should expand to 16 teams appear to be at a standstill. The Big Ten wants to guarantee a specific number of bids for each of the four power conferences — and give itself and the SEC more bids than the Big 12 and ACC — while the other conferences and Notre Dame are much more in favor of a model that guarantees bids to five conference champions and leaves the other 11 spots for at-large teams.
In this case, the stalemate could end up being OK. If there’s no agreement on how the playoff should expand to 16, it could simply stay at 12 for next season and maybe even beyond. After a decade of a four-team playoff, moving on from the 12-team format after two years would be quite hasty.
There’s plenty to look forward to this college football season. (Stefan Milic/Yahoo Sports)
Will byes hurt the top playoff seeds again?
The top four teams in last season’s CFP all went one-and-done. No. 1 Oregon got blitzed by Ohio State in the Rose Bowl. No. 2 Georgia lost to Notre Dame. No. 3 Boise State fell to No. 6 Penn State and No. 4 Arizona State lost to No. 5 Texas.
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Thanks to the format of the playoff, all four top seeds had a month off between games. But they were all also underdogs because of the way the playoff was structured. And that structure only lasted a season.
In 2024, the top four seeds were the top four conference champions in the playoff committee’s…
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Author : Nick Bromberg
Publish date : 2025-08-11 17:45:00
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