The great debate is long over. Alabama and Miami are in the College Football Playoff and Notre Dame is not. The tears are dry, and people will soon have to accept that two Group of 5 teams are in the field.

SMU got shellacked by Penn State, 38-10. Tennessee was outclassed against Ohio State, 42-17. In fact, first round games in the last CFP were decided by an average of 19.3 points. The nominal closest was a 10-point win by Notre Dame against Indiana. The Fighting Irish were up 24-3 at one point as the Hoosiers pulled close in garbage time.

Two more previously made the playoff in Indiana’s Curt Cignetti and Oregon’s Dan Lanning. Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire has delivered the best regular season in program history and Texas A&M coach Mike Elko led the Aggies to their most success in the regular season in decades.

The Bulldogs faced Ole Miss on October 18 and handed the Rebels their only loss of the season. In a thrilling, 43–35 home victory, Georgia outscored Lane Kiffin’s squad 17–0 in the fourth quarter to secure a victory.

From Indiana to James Madison, we picked out every CFP player who could factor into the 2026 NFL draft and slotted them by stock from Round 1 to Round 7.

Here are five reasons why the Big Ten's CFP reign will continue with the Hoosiers, Buckeyes or Ducks lifting the trophy on Jan. 19 in Miami Gardens, Florida. There's no better time than now to play Oklahoma,

No. 6 Ole Miss (11-1, 7-1 SEC) will take the field at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium on Dec. 20 in the program's College Football Playoff debut against the Tulane Gre

Diego Pavia shares his honest thoughts about Vanderbilt's College Football Playoff snub originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia believes the College Football Playoff is close to getting it right — but not quite there yet.