After what feels like a lifetime of waiting, the best football of the season is here, and you expect good things when you sit down to watch the College Football Playoff National Championship. Hopefully, there’s a good game, and before everything gets started, there’s some excellent singing, too.

Mac Jones took to social media to react to Ohio State's first touchdown in the national title game against Notre Dame.

College Football Playoff National Championship is here! Live from the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta as fans packed the seats for what they hoped to be a suspenseful game by the two finest college football teams in the nation.

USA TODAY is the most recent national outlet to rank the 2020 Crimson Tide as the greatest of the playoff era, joining ESPN.

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Now that it’s all over and the Ohio State Buckeyes are the college football national champions, it can be definitively said: Expanding the College Football Playoff worked.

Editor’s note: This is a guest column from former writer and columnist Dave Jones, who retired from PennLive last May after 33 years covering Penn State. Jones, who will be recognized with the Football Writers Association of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award on Jan. 17 in Atlanta, offers his thoughts on the current playoff format.

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Ohio State quarterback Will Howard connected on his first 13 passes against Notre Dame to set the record for consecutive completions in a College Football ... Alabama's Mac Jones set the previous ...

13: Howard connected on his first 13 passes against Notre Dame to set the record for consecutive completions in a College Football Playoff Championship game. Alabama's Mac Jones set the previous ...

College Football National Championship Game will be played later than is usual for the sports title game. The College Football Playoff has pushed the prestigious event back. Let’s find out when the 2026 National Championship Game is scheduled to be played.

A quarterback battle is brewing in Tuscaloosa with Ty Simpson, Keelon Russell and Austin Mack set to battle it out to be QB1 for Alabama. This battle will undoubtedly garner a lot of attention with it being the Tide’s second year under Kalen DeBoer.