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Here’s the 2025-26 College Football Playoff bracket. No. 1 Indiana faces No. 10 Miami in the National Championship game on Monday, Jan. 19.<\/p>\n BRACKET GAME: Check your picks in the College Football Bracket Challenge Game<\/a><\/p>\n 2025-26 College Football Playoff bracket<\/p>\n This bracket uses the CFP selection committee’s final\u00a0top 25 rankings of the season from Sunday, Dec. 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n Click or tap here for an interactive bracket.<\/a><\/p>\n The top 25 ranking does not always match the seed in the playoff, as the five highest-ranked conference champions get in automatically, even if they are ranked behind teams in the top 25 or not ranked in the top 25 at all.<\/p>\n 2025-26 College Football Playoff schedule, scores<\/p>\n Click or tap here for a live scoreboard<\/a><\/p>\n \t\u00a0College Football Playoff\u00a0National Championship Game<\/p>\n \tFirst round (Dec. 19-20)<\/p>\n \t\tFriday, Dec. 19<\/p>\n \t\tSaturday, Dec. 20:<\/p>\n \tQuarterfinals (Dec. 31-Jan. 1)<\/p>\n \t\tWednesday, Dec. 31<\/p>\n \t\tThursday, Jan. 1<\/p>\n \tSemifinals (Jan. 8-9)<\/p>\n \t\tThursday, Jan. 8<\/p>\n \t\tFriday, Jan. 9<\/p>\n College Football Playoff rankings, seeds<\/p>\n The four highest-ranked teams \u2014 regardless of how they finish in their conference \u2014 receive first round byes into the quarterfinals. These teams are listed in bold. The five highest-ranked conference champions receive automatic bids. All teams in the CFP bracket are in italics.<\/p>\n Here are the latest CFP top 25 rankings.<\/p>\n \tIndiana: 13-0 There is no re-seeding of the bracket after rounds.<\/p>\n The four quarterfinal games are not played on campus sites like in the first round. The quarterfinals, scheduled on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 \u2014 will be played at the Cotton Bowl, Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl. The four highest-ranked teams will be assigned one of these bowls in consideration of historic bowl relationships as well as seeding.<\/p>\n The four quarterfinal winners will then meet in the semifinals at the Fiesta Bowl or the Peach Bowl on Jan. 8 and Jan. 9. If the seeds hold, that means No. 1 would play No. 4 and No. 2 would play No. 3. The two semifinal winners will then play on Monday, Jan. 19 in Miami for the CFP national championship.<\/p>\n Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza and the Miami Hurricanes on a home-field collision course for the CFP title<\/p>\n Miami native Fernando Mendoza and Indiana face his hometown Miami Hurricanes in Miami for a College Football Playoff national championship.<\/p>\n READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n The importance of a top seed in the FCS playoffs, explained<\/p>\n While getting a seed is an advantage by itself, recent FCS history shows the value of a top seed is even more important than it might appear at first glance.<\/p>\n
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\n\tOhio State: 12-1
\n\tGeorgia: 12-1
\n\tTexas Tech: 12-1
\n\tOregon: 11-1
\n\tOle Miss: 11-1
\n\tTexas A&M: 11-1
\n\tOklahoma: 10-2
\n\tAlabama: 10-3
\n\tMiami (Fla.): 10-2
\n\tNotre Dame: 10-2
\n\tBYU: 11-2
\n\tTexas: 9-3
\n\tVanderbilt: 10-2
\n\tUtah: 10-2
\n\tUSC: 9-3
\n\tArizona: 9-3
\n\tMichigan: 9-3
\n\tVirginia: 10-3
\n\tTulane: 11-2
\n\tHouston: 9-3
\n\tGeorgia Tech: 9-3
\n\tIowa: 8-4
\n\tJames Madison: 12-1
\n\tNorth Texas: 11-2<\/p>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mendoza-Indiana-Oregon-Peach-Bowl-CFP.jpg\")
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