Mandel’s Mailbag: Can Ohio State (or anyone) build a 12-team College Football Playoff dynasty?
Plus, more questions on whether the CFP format was a success, next year's rising teams and college football's longest season ever.
Why expanding the College Football Playoff worked – and what still needs to be fixed
Now that it’s all over and the Ohio State Buckeyes are the college football national champions, it can be definitively said: Expanding the College Football Playoff worked.
Sports Illustrated’s 2025 Way-Too-Early College Football Top 25
The Ohio State Buckeyes bounced back from what seemed like a catastrophic loss to the Michigan Wolverines to go on a four-game push through the first 12-team College Football Playoff and win the national championship.
With 2024 college football season in the books, how can SMU take next step in 2025?
SMU may have come up four wins short of hoisting the national championship trophy this season, but the now-completed 2024 college football season will be remembered with the Mustangs having a key role in it.
4 takeaways from the first year of the expanded College Football Playoff
Ohio State came out on top in the national championship on Monday, outlasting a late Notre Dame comeback push to win 34-23. The game brought an end to the first edition of the expanded College Football Playoff, which features 12 teams vying for the title instead of four.
SI:AM | Expanded College Football Playoff Proves Successful—With Room for Improvement
It started with some blowouts, ended with some nailbiters and gave fans plenty to look forward to in future editions.
Way too early 2025 college football rankings: Can Indiana make the College Football Playoff again?
By almost any measure, Indiana football had the best season in its 126-year history in 2024. Can IU run it back in 2025?
Ranking the top 100 college football players of the 2024-25 season
The second is, technically, an opinion -- one shared by everyone on ESPN's committee selecting the top 100 players of the 2024-25 season -- but it'd be tough to come up with a compelling argument for someone else.
College football rankings: Big 12 teams in updated Coaches Poll, AP Top 25 after national championship
The Big 12 ended up well-represented in the final polls of the season, with Arizona State unsurprisingly leading the way after its CFP appearance.
College football Top 25 rankings for 2025: Should Arizona State football be a Top 10 team?
The Arizona State Sun Devils closed the 2024 college football season as a Top 10 team in most end-of-season rankings. Will they open 2025 as one?
First 12-team College Football Playoff delivered massive success, but flawed seeding model must be addressed
The expanded CFP expanded the national spotlight to more programs than ever before, but one glaring flaw remains ...
Ohio State beats Notre Dame to win College Football Playoff National Championship Game
The Buckeyes beat the Fighting Irish 34-23 to win the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff, their first national ...
How did college football coaches vote in the US LBM Coaches Poll? See every ballot in the final Top 25 rankings
The college football season is over and the US LBM Coaches Poll has been released. How did each coach vote? We reveal every ...
2025 NFL Draft: Stock up, stock down from College Football Playoff as Quinn Ewers disappoints, receivers surge
When it came to the NFL Draft, there used to be this phenomenon called "bowl-game bias," when a prospect would see massive ...
The 5 best College Football Playoff games: Arizona State-Texas thriller is this year’s entrant
The inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff began with a lopsided victory by Notre Dame (over Indiana) and concluded with ...
College Football Playoff: Golf cart carrying Ryan Day, Ohio State players crashed into a wall, and people had jokes
Instead of a smooth ride through the tunnels at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Monday night, Ohio State coach Ryan Day ...
College football rankings: Tight race for preseason No. 1 serves as key storyline entering 2025 season
Ohio State captured its first national championship since 2014 with a win over Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff ...
Alabama fan interrupts C-SPAN's Trump inauguration coverage with complaint about College Football Playoff
An Alabama Crimson Tide fan fired off a scorching hot take during C-SPAN's coverage of President Donald Trump's inauguration ...