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How The New 12-Team College Football Playoff Will Actually Work

First round games are on college campuses. But with the CFP committee controlling ticket sales, sponsorships, and the commentary script, will it even feel like a home game?

Joe Pompliano
Dec 20, 2024
∙ Paid
(Oregon QB Dillon Gabriel via Ali Gradischer/Getty Images)

The inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff (CFP) is officially here. Once seen as a complicated process that included math equations and plenty of disagreements, college football’s postseason structure has changed a lot over the last three decades.

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