Indiana gets top billing in College Football Playoff as Miami sneaks into field

The Ohio State Buckeyes’ travel to repetition arsenic nationalist champions successful assemblage shot took its archetypal measurement connected Sunday arsenic they were 1 of the 12 teams to marque the College Football Playoff.

The archetypal 4 teams were beauteous overmuch acceptable going into the last reveal. The large alteration came aft the Big Ten Championship arsenic the Indiana Hoosiers pulled disconnected a thrilling upset implicit the Buckeyes.

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Indiana's D'Angelo Ponds stops Ohio State's Max Klare during the 2nd fractional of the Big Ten title NCAA assemblage shot crippled successful Indianapolis, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025.  (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Indiana's Charlie Becker catches a agelong walk successful beforehand of Ohio State's Jermaine Mathews Jr. during the 2nd fractional of the Big Ten title NCAA assemblage shot crippled successful Indianapolis, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)

Indiana, Ohio State, Georgia and Texas Tech were fixed a bye successful the playoff. The Hoosiers were No. 1, the Buckeyes were No. 2, the Bulldogs were No. 3 and the Red Raiders were No. 4.

While those teams were yet acceptable successful chromatic arsenic the apical programs going into the last reveal, it was the bottommost 8 that were going to origin a spot much controversy.

The Miami Hurricanes and BYU Cougars were connected the extracurricular looking into the tract successful the penultimate rankings. The committee near 2 spots unfastened for league champions to get into the tract arsenic No. 11 and 12 seeds. But a small spot much chaos occurred Saturday than expected.

Texas Tech blew retired BYU successful the Big 12 Championship, portion the Duke Blue Devils upset the Virginia Cavaliers to triumph the ACC Championship. Meanwhile, the Alabama Crimson Tide, who were ranked No. 9 past week, picked up their 3rd nonaccomplishment of the play successful a 21-point decision successful the SEC Championship against Georgia.

Georgia backmost Gunner Stockton (14) rolls retired of the pouch against Alabama during the 2nd fractional of a Southeastern Conference title NCAA assemblage shot game, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025, successful Atlanta.  (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

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The James Madison Dukes and Tulane Green Wave each won their league titles, which could person catapulted them into the playoff representation arsenic 2 of the champion league champions extracurricular of the powerfulness conferences.

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish besides came successful with immoderate questions arsenic they were ranked No. 10 past week and didn’t play successful a league title due to the fact that of their autarkic status. Notre Dame mislaid to Miami successful the archetypal crippled of the play and besides mislaid to Texas A&M. But they’ve won each crippled since. For what it’s worth, Miami had losses to Louisville and SMU during the year.

The College Football Playoff Committee had a batch to determine up of Sunday.

After the apical 4 seeds were decided, the remainder of the bracket was revealed.

• No. 5 Oregon vs. No. 12 James Madison
• No. 8 Oklahoma vs. No. 9 Alabama
• No. 6 Ole Miss vs. No. 11 Tulane
• No. 7 Texas A&M vs. No. 10 Miami

Notre Dame caput manager Marcus Freeman celebrates with his players aft winning a NCAA shot crippled 70-7 against Syracuse astatine Notre Dame Stadium connected Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025, successful South Bend. (MICHAEL CLUBB/SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

Miami Hurricanes caput manager Mario Cristobal reacts connected the sidelines against the Pittsburgh Panthers during the 3rd 4th astatine Acrisure Stadium connected Nov. 29, 2025. (Charles LeClaire/Imagn Images)

The Hurricanes were not successful the Playoff successful past week’s reveal. Notre Dame was near retired of the tract aft being successful the field, according to the penultimate rankings.

The Fighting Irish were considered to beryllium the archetypal squad retired of the field. BYU was the 2nd squad out.

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Duke, the ACC champions, didn’t marque the last field.

Ohio State volition present look to go back-to-back champions. The past squad to spell back-to-back was Georgia successful the 2021 and 2022 seasons.