The first 12-team version of the College Football Playoff has reached the national championship game and it will be Notre Dame against heavily favored Ohio 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 ...

How high do the Lions rise after their dominant Week 18 performance? Are the Ravens peaking at the right time? What's next for the upstart Broncos? Eric Edholm updates his Power Rankings, from 1 to 32 ...

The NFL playoffs are single elimination. The four division champions from each conference make the playoffs and are seeded No ...

Bowl game eligibility is based on team performance ... which ranks the Top 25 teams. The final CFP bracket, featuring 12 teams, is announced after the regular season. Other bowl games are ...

Sixteen invited teams will play a 16-team Swiss System Format; all matches are best-of-three. The top 8 teams proceed to single-elimination bracket playoffs where they join the four seeded teams.

The event, which was the culmination of the G League’s fall Tip-Off Tournament, included an eight-team, single-elimination bracket made up of the top finishers in the Tip-Off Tournament. Those eight ...

As winter sports are underway, The Chronicle is back with our breakdown of every sport, including key rules, terminology, tournament formats and more. Here is our basketball edition, including a ...

͏ While fans eagerly await the next phase, reactions to the expanded 12-team playoff format have been anything but unanimous. Some have voiced strong criticism, calling the first round unnecessary.

It's a single-game elimination tournament, after all. So when a team can raise its ... and we thought that 12-seed would embody that hope. Except the bracket was revealed and we look up to see ...

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 ...