The first-ever 12-team field will be featured NCAA Tournament-style with its own fancy little bracket in a single-elimination format ... over the schools that are seeded sixth (Penn State ...

The number of playoff teams has fluctuated from as few as two teams (from 1933 to 1966) to as many as 16 teams (in 1982). The ...

SMU captured the last open spot in the College Football Playoff, edging Alabama to land in a first-of-its-kind, 12-team bracket that placed ... games involving teams seeded 5-12.

The NFL expanded from 12 to 14 playoff teams in 2020. The NFL playoffs are single elimination ... wild-card teams and are seeded No. 5 through No. 7. If a wild-card team has a better record ...

The first expanded playoff bracket unveiled Sunday left a presumably deserving Alabama team ... was seeded second; Boise State, the Mountain West champion, earned the third seed; and Big 12 ...

The first expanded playoff bracket unveiled Sunday left a presumably deserving Alabama team ... was seeded second; Boise State, the Mountain West champion, earned the third seed; and Big 12 ...

(AP) - The new, 12-team College Football Playoff brings with it a promise to be bigger, more exciting, more lucrative. Perfect or 100% fair? Well, nobody ever believed that. The first expanded playoff ...