ESPN’s college football punditry seems to be showing favoritism toward the SEC, but it is really showing favoritism toward the art of the “take.”

Ohio State's Jeremiah Smith and Notre Dame's Jeremiyah Love both moved up our list after impressive first-round performances

The TV ratings proved views were interested. Each of the four games averaged 10.6 million viewers. That’s more than the four the non-CFP New Year’s bowls after the 2023 season averaged (8.14 million), and also topped the average for this year’s four major conference championship games (10 million).

Here's a complete schedule of the College Football Playoff, including kickoff times and TV channel information.

The first round of the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff is over, and boy, howdy, were those games underwhelming. They were so bad -- HOW BAD WERE THEY? -- they were so bad that it led to every talking head in the college football universe complaining and arguing about the format with some even saying wins aren't that important.

The Peach Bowl is unfamiliar territory for both teams. Only Arizona State has ever played in the Atlanta-based bowl; that was back in 1970 when Frank Kush’s Sun Devils out of the WAC completed an unbeaten season 11-0 with a 48-26 victory against North Carolina at Georgia Tech’s Bobby Dodd Stadium.

We've got the Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Oregon Ducks. The College Football playoffs enters its second round next week, and Ohio State will face Oregon in the Rose Bowl Presented by Prudential. Ohio State decimated Tennessee 42-17 en route to a rematch with Oregon.

While we did not get an upset in the first round of the 2024-25 College Football Playoff, we are so overdue for one in the national quarterfinals. Let's power rank the four national quarterfinals on the overall likelihood that an upset will occur in them.