Notre Dame and Ohio State fans have had to endure unprecedented travel demands throughout college football's first 12-team playoff to reach Monday night's national championship game.

While discourse around the future of the College Football Playoff format continues, a major change is not expected to occur before the 2025 season, according to a report from Yahoo Sports' Ross Dellenger on Friday.

Athletic directors at Ohio State and Florida push back against rabid college football fan bases who want change, and win the moment.

The CFP is a wondrous bounty of football joy, game after game of (sometimes) thrilling football matchups that range from the unexpected to the sublime. The problem is that the expanded CFP now requires four weeks’ worth of games, not two, and fitting those games into the most crowded space of the year is no easy task.

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Editor’s note: This is a guest column from former writer and columnist Dave Jones, who retired from PennLive last May after 33 years covering Penn State. Jones, who will be recognized with the Football Writers Association of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award on Jan. 17 in Atlanta, offers his thoughts on the current playoff format.

There's only one game remaining in what has been the longest college football season in history, which started way back on Aug. 24, 2024, when Georgia Tech upset then-No. 10 Florida State 24-21 in Ireland.

Ohio State in the College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday in Atlanta. The Buckeyes are seeking their first title since 2014 -- the first year of the expanded four-team CFP -- while Notre Dame is trying to snap a championship drought that dates back to 1988.

Eliminating the CFP’s rule designating the top four seeds and first-round byes to conference champions won't likely happen next year.

Predicting next season's college football Top 25 in January is difficult. We tried early in 2024. How did it work out? A look at the hits and misses.