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

A 12th regular-season opponent has yet to be announced for 2025, but AD Pete Bevacqua expressed confidence that puzzle would be resolved to Notre Dame’s satisfaction.

Notre Dame showed this season why its comfortable staying independent — even if it has to play an extra game in its quest for a championship.

A 12th regular-season opponent remains to be scheduled for Notre Dame football in 2025. A trip to Stanford would make the most sense.

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Any adjustments to the College Football Playoff for next season, including a potential tweak in the way the teams are seeded, would have to take place later this year, probably in the spring.

ATLANTA — Notre Dame athletic director Pete ... football program’s 36-year national championship drought end in his first calendar year at the helm, called the new 12-team College Football ...

The ACC is expected to consider changing the format of its football championship as it weighs how to protect its regular-season champion before the College Football Playoff, commissioner Jim Phillips said Sunday.

ATLANTA — Any adjustments to the College Football Playoff for next season ... top four teams,” Fighting Irish athletic director Pete Bevacqua said a day earlier. Stay logged in.

ATLANTA — Notre Dame's athletic director said “I think there's a chance” for tweaks to the way the College Football Playoff ... the national title game, Pete Bevacqua, in his first year ...

ATLANTA — The early betting favorite to win next year's national championship: Ohio State. The question nobody can really answer at this time: What sort of sport will the Buckeyes or anyone else return to when they kick it off again seven months from now.

The current seeding format for the CFP is flawed, but that could change as early as 2025 . It was clear to see the biggest flaw in the current College Football Playoff format was