{"id":343251,"date":"2025-12-12T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343251\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:55:10","slug":"fans-of-college-football-playoff-teams-how-hopeful-are-you-take-our-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343251\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans of College Football Playoff teams, how hopeful are you? Take our survey!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Indiana football fans celebrate with their arms raised\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/USATSI_27537609-1024x672.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"responsive\" class=\"image-next-root\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Article_ImageCaptionCredit__mkXi_ article-image-caption-credit Typography_body1__xfKuc inherit Typography_base__jzSqr\">Indiana is No. 1 for the first time. Will that success carry over into the College Football Playoff? Matthew O&#8217;Haren \/ Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>By The Athletic College Football Staff<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 12, 2025Updated 8:48 am EST<\/p>\n<p>Much has changed since our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6576311\/2025\/08\/28\/college-football-2025-preseason-rankings-fan-predictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">preseason college football Hope-O-Meter survey<\/a>, and now we\u2019re trying something new: Asking fans of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6871163\/2025\/12\/08\/college-football-playoff-teams-guides-odds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">12 teams that made the College Football Playoff<\/a> to let us know how hopeful they are now that the bracket is set and what their expectations are for their team.<\/p>\n<p>Are you just happy to be here? Do you need to win at least one game? Is it national championship or bust? In the survey below, let us know how you\u2019re feeling and whether you think your team is capable of winning the title. We\u2019ll publish the results before the first round kicks off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6875880\/2025\/12\/09\/college-football-playoff-bracket-predictions-submit-your-picks-here\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Want to give us your bracket picks? Submit them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana is No. 1 for the first time. Will that success carry over into the College Football Playoff?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[1214,64,63,594,596,1215,68477,179733,33627,709,1220,718,1219,85,1223,1225,33615],"class_list":{"0":"post-343251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-alabama-crimson-tide","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-college-football","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-georgia-bulldogs","14":"tag-indiana-hoosiers","15":"tag-james-madison-dukes","16":"tag-miami-hurricanes","17":"tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","18":"tag-oklahoma-sooners","19":"tag-ole-miss-rebels","20":"tag-oregon-ducks","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-texas-am-aggies","23":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","24":"tag-tulane-green-wave"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}