Plus, more questions on whether the CFP format was a success, next year's rising teams and college football's longest season ever.

Now that it’s all over and the Ohio State Buckeyes are the college football national champions, it can be definitively said: expanding the College Football Playoff worked. The grand experiment to allow more teams to play for the national championship wasn’t perfect,

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The CFP will never likely surpass the NFL in the attention economy, but the march through the first 12-team Playoff has been a positive one.

The Ohio State football program captured history with claiming the first-ever College Football Playoff National Championship when the four-team model made its debut in the 2014 season. A decade later,

Ohio State came out on top in the national championship on Monday, outlasting a late Notre Dame comeback push to win 34-23. The game brought an end to the first edition of the expanded College Football Playoff, which features 12 teams vying for the title instead of four.

As the first 12-team College Football Playoff ends, leaders are discussing what to change in the future. Here are the main topics.

Ohio State's national championship victory provided a fitting ending to an inaugural 12-team Playoff that accomplished everything it was designed to do.

The inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff kept more fan bases engaged, but is it worth the loss of the sport’s tradition?

The world will be watching the Ohio State Buckeyes play the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on Monday night in the College Football Playoff national championship game in Atlanta. Mercedes-Benz Stadium broke ground in May of 2014 and later opened in August of 2017.