Playoff System

College Football Playoff Schedule and Championship Game Schedule for the 2017 through 2025 seasons.

The College Football Playoff is an upcoming 4-team playoff that will determine the 2017 College Football Playoff national championship. It will be played at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia on January 8, 2018, as the culminating game of the 2017–18 bowl season.

College football playoff rankings.

The committee’s rankings release every Tuesday in the latter half of the season, leading to the big ones in December. Here’s what to know along the way.

To view the College Football Playoff Selection Committee Protocol, click here.

The Alabama Crimson Tide being upset by the Auburn Tigers on Saturday tells us a story about how the College Football Playoff system is flawed and should be expanded.

FCS College Football Rankings - Simple Ratings System - NCAA.

Here's everything you need to know about the college football playoff.

It can be used like Vegas’ computers to pick games and rank teams by their predicted quality going forward, but it’s a lot more than that.

The College Football Playoff preserves the excitement and significance of college football’s unique regular season where every game counts.

Brandon Lilly: College football is an American love affair that can baffle outsiders. Here is a beginner's guide to BCS, bowl games and more.

College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States.

The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) was a selection system that created five bowl game match-ups involving ten of the top ranked teams in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of American college football, including an opportunity for the top two teams to compete in the BCS National Championship Game.