February 8, 2025

If the 12-Team Playoff Started This Year, Ohio State Would Be Hosting Penn State at Ohio Stadium This Weekend

If next year’s College Football Playoff structure was already in place, Ohio State would be preparing to host Penn State at Ohio Stadium today. While this year’s College Football Playoff won’t begin for another 17 days – though today is the start of bowl season – next year’s CFP will have already started by now. The CFP schedules for both 2024 and 2025 call for first-round games to be played on the third weekend of December with one game on Friday and three games on Saturday, with the games to be hosted by the higher-seeded teams playing in the first round. Under that structure and based on this year’s final College Football Playoff rankings, Ohio State would have been the No. 7 seed and Penn State would have been the No. 10 seed, meaning the Buckeyes would have hosted the Nittany Lions in Columbus for the second time this season…

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