{"id":293817,"date":"2024-11-22T18:52:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T18:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/22\/what-to-know-about-expanded-college-football-playoff\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T18:52:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T18:52:15","slug":"what-to-know-about-expanded-college-football-playoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/22\/what-to-know-about-expanded-college-football-playoff\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know about expanded College Football Playoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>With just two more weeks remaining in the regular season, followed by conference championships and the new, 12-team playoff, major college football is building toward a crescendo.<\/p>\n<p>All eyes are on the <a href=\"https:\/\/collegefootballplayoff.com\/rankings.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Top 25 teams<\/a> as ranked by the College Football Playoff committee, with several Week 13 matchups potentially acting as de facto elimination games.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a refresher on how the CFP works and a brief look at potential playoff scenarios.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>How does the 12-team College Football Playoff work?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The five highest-ranked conference champions will receive automatic berths into the 12-team bracket, with the top four earning a first-round bye.<\/p>\n<p>The next seven highest-ranked teams will then slot into the bracket&#8217;s first round. A ranking in the top 12, however, doesn&#8217;t mean the schools will be seeded that way in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth-highest ranked conference champion, for example, may not be the No. 5 seed. It could very well be as low as the 12th seed depending on where the committee has it ranked.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n\t{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n\tif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n\tn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n\t'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/college_football\/articles\/what_to_know_about_expanded_college_football_playoff\/s1_13132_41276473\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With just two more weeks remaining in the regular season, followed by conference championships and the new, 12-team playoff, major college football is building toward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":293818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}