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Here's The Complete 12-Team College Football Playoff Bracket

Originally posted on The Spun | By Daniel Bates | Last updated Dec 8, 2024 1:14 PM ET

After a fun 15 weeks of college football, we've finally arrived at the first ever 12-team Playoff.

On Sunday, the CFP Committee made its final decisions on the Playoff field and we now have our first official look at the matchups we're in store for starting December 20. Check it out below:

First Round

No. 12 Clemson vs. No. 5 Texas
No. 9 Tennessee vs. No. 8 Ohio State
No. 11 SMU vs. No. 6 Penn State
No. 10 Indiana vs. No. 7 Notre Dame

Quarterfinals (First-Round Bye)

(Winner of Clemson/Texas) vs. No. 4 Arizona State
(Winner of Tennessee/Ohio State) vs. No. 1 Oregon
(Winner of SMU/Penn State) vs. No. 3 Boise State
(Winner of Indiana/Notre Dame) vs. No. 2 Georgia

THE BRACKET IS SET ✍️

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— ESPN (@espn) December 8, 2024

It should undoubtedly be an exciting few weeks of postseason college football action and for the most part it looks like the committee got things right.

The biggest debate going into it was whether or not three-loss Alabama would be a part of the Playoff. But it appears the Tide's ugly losses to unranked Vanderbilt and Oklahoma were too big for the CFP's decision-makers to ignore.

Nick Saban was among the most outraged that his former program wouldn't be participating during ESPN's Selection Show. Telling his colleagues:

If we don't take strength of schedule into consideration, is there any benefit to scheduling really good teams in the future? Here at Alabama, we're supposed to play Notre Dame, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Florida State in the future — outside the league. Those are great games for fans to see, and that's what I think we should be doing in college football is creating more good inventory for great games that people are interested in. But do you enhance people wanting to do that? What's the athletic director going to do? He may go cancel all those games now, knowing the SEC is tough enough.

Saban appears to be in the minority, however. And now that the debates are over, we can finally focus on the most important thing — the football.

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