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Sports Illustrated’s 2025 College Football Preseason All-Americans

From Ohio State’s Jeremiah Smith to Texas’s Colin Simmons, here are our first- and second-team selections who should have major impacts in 2025.

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College Football Playoff Predictions: Imagining Eight Experimental Scenarios for 2025

From our best guess to how the playoff will unfold to borderline absurd brackets, here is how the season could play out under very different circumstances.

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The 25 Most Intriguing College Football Coaches for 2025

Bill Belichick is in charge at Chapel Hill, Deion Sanders is back for Year 3 in Boulder and Steve Sarkisian enters a championship-or-bust season in Austin.

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CFP Expansion Division Stems From Stronghold ESPN Has Over Games

A Big Ten push for more play-in games with other TV partners has roots in the Playoff extending its media rights deal with just one network.

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Tony Petitti's CFP Proposal Doesn't Have College Football’s Best Interests in Mind

The commissioner remains the lone power figure pushing for College Football Playoff expansion with more opportunities for Power 4 teams.

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SEC Head Coach Vouches for 30-Team College Football Playoff

Missouri's Eli Drinkwitz thinks the current field should more than double.

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Potential Shift in College Football Playoff Sparks IRL Uncertainty–and on ‘NCAA,’ Too

The NCAA’s College Football Playoff finally expanded in 2024, allowing 12 teams to play for the title. It wasn’t without its issues, many of which were ironed out in recent adjustments to the 2025 version. But if the Big Ten and SEC have their way, confusion and frustration with the…

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College Football Playoff Moves to Straight Seeding in 2025, No Consensus on ’26 Changes

Revenue distribution for the four highest-ranked conference champions, roughly $8 million, will likely remain the same.

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College Football Playoff Unanimously Votes to Move to Straight Seeding for 2025

The top four seeds in the CFP will look a bit different next season.

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Group of 5, Independent Football Primer: Notre Dame Hopeful for CFP Bid Again

After a look at the Power 4 leagues, SI runs through the remaining conferences and the favorites, new coaches and potential playoff teams.

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College Football’s Top 20 Impact Players for the 2025 Season

This group can elevate their teams in ways that don’t show up on a box score and will be must-watch this fall.

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Rob Gronkowski Offers Thoughts on, Suggestions for 12-Team College Football Playoff

The former Arizona tight end and current LA Bowl MC likes what he sees, he told SI on Wednesday.

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College Football Playoff names Ohio State players Offensive and Defensive MVPs

Players of the game! #GoBucks

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Disgruntled Alabama Fan Dials Into Inauguration Coverage to Complain About CFP Snub

Graham from New Jersey would like a word with the College Football Playoff committee.

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The College Football Playoff needs to change its seeding procedures. Here’s a solution.

This needs fixing.

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No. 6 Ohio State blasts top-ranked Oregon 41-21 in the Rose Bowl, advances to CFP semifinals

No. 6 Ohio State roared into the College Football Playoff semifinals with a 41-21 victory over No. 1 Oregon in the 111th Rose Bowl

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Blues defensemen shine in Winter Classic win over Blackhawks

Blues defensemen shine in Winter Classic win over Blackhawks. St. Louis defeated Chicago 6-2 at Wrigley Field.

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Indiana absolutely deserved its College Football Playoff spot, and arguing otherwise is revisionist nonsense

Pointing to the result of the Notre Dame-Indiana game as evidence the Hoosiers shouldn't have been in the CFP is a weak argument at best.

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Ohio State football schedule: When do the Buckeyes play Tennessee?

Here's when the Buckeyes will return to the field in the College Football Playoff.

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How to buy Notre Dame Sugar Bowl College Football Playoff tickets

Notre Dame is headed to the Sugar Bowl to take on Georgia on Wednesday, Jan. 1. Tickets are already on sale and selling fast.

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How to buy Georgia vs. Notre Dame Sugar Bowl College Football Playoff tickets

Notre Dame is headed to the Sugar Bowl to take on Georgia on Wednesday, Jan. 1. Tickets are already on sale and selling fast.

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Clemson QB Cade Klubnik and Texas safety Michael Taaffe won a high school state title together

Here's how Clemson and Texas share a unique connection ahead of the CFP first round.

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3 reasons College Football Playoff campus games will look different from regular-season presentations

The visiting teams get hype videos, too.

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If the College Football Playoff mascots were in a battle royale, who would be in the final 4?

Forget the CFP bracket and Xs and Os. Before The Snap picks which mascots would win if they all faced off.

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Miami's Cam Ward Says College Football Playoff Should Expand to at Least 16 Teams

His Hurricanes just missed out on the first 12-team field.

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