New College Football Playoff format allows more teams to compete

(The Dallas Examiner) – For the first time, the NCAA will expand the College Football Playoff format from four teams to a 12-team bracket and seeding, which means more schools can compete for the national championship.The new format will kick off this season for the 2024-2025 playoffs with the national championship team crowned at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Jan. 20, 2025.Rich Clark, executive director of the CFP, hosted a media webinar Oct. 30 showcasing the new bracket and seeding format.Related Stories “This new playoff is just spectacular, and I think it’s what college football has needed for a long time,” Clark said. “I think the commissioners put a lot of good thought into this and how this could happen. Some of the guiding principles that they had in mind were first access – providing greater access to more teams – so that we could see teams that traditionally we haven’t seen in the playoff hunt. And opening that up, I think, is really what college football needed. It inspires our student athletes. It gives them hope that they can get into the playoff – and their coaches and their fans. But I think it also gives the fans a...