Here's the schedule for the College Football Playoff for the 2025-26 season. This is the second year of the 12-team playoff. The bracket was announced on Sunday, Dec. 7.

A year after tearing his ACL, James Madison quarterback Alonza Barnett III is leading the Dukes to their first appearance in the CFP. A dual threat, Barnett completed 59.9% of his passes for 2,533 yards, 21 touchdowns and eight picks while rushing for 544 yards and 14 touchdowns in 2025.

Looking at the 12-team College Football Playoff field, we examine the strength of record, best win, and worst loss for every CFP school going into Round 1.

Here are predictions and projections for the final College Football Playoff bracket and 12-team CFP field after conference championship games.

This is the second season the CFP is a 12-team bracket. Play will open with team seeded fifth through eighth hosting a first-round game on campus. The lowest-four seeds will be the visitors in the those matchups. The top four seeds earned first-round bye into to the national quarterfinals, which will be played New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

For some programs, success is no longer defined by getting in the College Football Playoff, but by how long they last.

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By definition, every single team in the College Football Playoff has had a successful season. Five of these teams won their conference, and the other seven finished among the 10 best teams in the country in the eyes of the selection committee.

January of 2015 -- and it started as a four-team Playoff. But as time went on, the Playoff expanded to 12 teams --

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