This year's College Football Playoff field defied expectations in several ways. Here's what you need to know about the 12 teams.

Alabama and Miami are in, Notre Dame is out and Indiana is No. 1 in the College Football Playoff’s 12-team bracket.

Following the relase of the 2025 College Football Playoff bracket, there's one athletic director madder than a wet hornet: Notre Dame's Pete Bevacqua. His Fight

Vitale is not a dispassionate observer. His daughters, Sherri and Terri Vitale, played tennis at Notre Dame and married Fighting Irish athletes. In September, Dick Vitale and his wife, Lorraine Vitale, donated $1 million to Notre Dame "to provide financial assistance to undergraduate students who have demonstrated need."

So before filling out your college football pool picks or making any college football bets, you need to see Casale's college football bowl picks. He has analyzed each bowl matchup and ordered every game by level of confidence. He's sharing his picks over at SportsLine .

The college football postseason is officially here, but some of the biggest programs in the sport won’t be competing in bowl games this year after a wild weekend in the sport. RELATED: Former Notre Dame star Brady Quinn attacks ESPN for CFP double standard stance While the College Football Playoff dominated headlines Sunday when the

Pete Nakos of On3 reported that Tulane's passing game coordinator, Will Hall, was going to become the next head coach, and it became official on Monday. The Tulane football account posted a video of Hall being introduced as the head coach.