here<\/a>.<\/p>\nOn Sunday, the head-to-head tiebreaker went in favor of the Hurricanes. Notre Dame was the first team out of the playoff, followed by BYU (11-2).<\/p>\n
2025 College Football Playoff participants<\/p>\n
No. 1 Indiana (13-0) (Automatic qualifier \u2013 Big Ten Champion)<\/p>\n
No. 2 Ohio State (12-1) (At-large qualifier \u2013 Big Ten Conference)<\/p>\n
No. 3 Georgia (12-1) (Automatic qualifier \u2013 Southeastern Conference Champion)<\/p>\n
No. 4 Texas Tech (12-1) (Automatic qualifier \u2013 Big 12 Conference Champion)<\/p>\n
No. 5 Oregon (11-1) (At-large qualifier \u2013 Big Ten Conference)<\/p>\n
No. 6 Mississippi (Ole Miss) (11-1) (At-large qualifier \u2013 Southeastern Conference)<\/p>\n
No. 7 Texas A&M (11-1) (At-large qualifier \u2013 Southeastern Conference)<\/p>\n
No. 8 Oklahoma (10-2) (At-large qualifier \u2013 Southeastern Conference)<\/p>\n
No. 9 Alabama (10-3) (At-large qualifier \u2013 Southeastern Conference)<\/p>\n
No. 10 Miami (10-2) (At-large qualifier \u2013 Atlantic Coast Conference)<\/p>\n
No. 11 Tulane (11-2) (Automatic qualifier \u2013 American Conference Champion)<\/p>\n
No. 12 James Madison (12-1) (Automatic qualifier \u2013 Sun Belt Conference Champion)<\/p>\n
The five highest-ranked conference champions earn automatic berths into the College Football Playoff followed by seven at-large selections.<\/p>\n
The College Football Playoff National Championship game will be Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video above: High School football semifinals scores and highlights | Dec. 5After weeks of speculation on the chances…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[42425,42427,21376,42428,10241,42426,19189,13234,123,42429,125,42424,5079,124,42430,42431,35575,1456,189],"class_list":["post-74688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-at-large-qualifier","tag-automatic-qualifier","tag-big","tag-championno","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-conferenceno","tag-dec","tag-hard-rock-stadium","tag-miami","tag-miami-director","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-hurricane-earn-spot-in-college-football-playoff","tag-miami-hurricanes","tag-miami-news","tag-seed-texas-am","tag-speculation","tag-spot","tag-week","tag-wpbf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"PITTSBURGH,](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/gettyimages-2248499341-6935bbc3445ee.jpg\"\/ "\\"Miami")
<\/p>\n![\"PITTSBURGH,](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/gettyimages-2248464511-6935be3446722.jpg\"\/ "\\"Miami")
<\/p>\n