Notre Dame's athletic director said "I think there's a chance" there will be tweaks to the way the College Football Playoff awards byes next year — an issue that will be discussed this weekend but that would need unanimous approval from the 10 conferences and the Fighting Irish.

Some of it may be overboard, dancing on the grave of a not-dead patient by SEC haters who finally see their chance. Some of it is a chance to vent back at the loud pro-SEC voices, at ESPN and elsewhere. And a lot of this may be premature. New arrival Texas could still bring the SEC its sixth national title in eight years.

Either Marcus Freeman or James Franklin will become the first Black head coach to make an FBS national championship game, and other story lines to watch.

College football's 2025 season is filled with marquee matchups. In the expanded College Football Playoff era, every weekend is vital toward building resumes. Many of the preseason ranked teams face out-of-conference showdowns that could be the difference in landing as an at-large or just missing out.

Notre Dame’s athletic director said he things "there’s a chance" there'll be tweaks to the way the CFP awards byes next year.

A couple of years ago, colleague Andy Nesbitt, writing for For The Win, authored an article arguing that college football's national championship game being on Monday night is one of the dumbest things in sports.

It’s the first time fans have been asked to fling open their wallets to attend as many as four games as their teams marched toward a title.

Now, we've got one more game left. On Monday night in Atlanta (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN), Ohio State, a nearly 10-point favorite, will seek its first national title in 10 years while underdog Notre Dame will seek its first in 36.