The Big 12 released its 2025 football schedule Tuesday, setting the stage for another season of back-and-forth battles in a conference that delivered thrills on a weekly basis in 2024. When Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark banged the podium to proclaim his conference the most competitive in the country at media days last July,

The 2024 college football season featured dozens of highly entertaining games. But the Arizona State vs. Texas matchup in the College Football Playoff quarterfinals arguably topped them all. The game featured everything.

The first 12-team Playoff had a lot of great moments. It could also use some tweaks. In the short term, leaders are unlikely to make major changes to the format for the 2025 season. The bigger stuff is more likely to come in 2026, when the new contracts kick in and the SEC and Big Ten basically get to do whatever they want.

The College Football Playoff committee announced that the 2027 College Football National Championship Game will be played in Las Vegas, Nevada, the former home

Week 1 of the 2025 college football season features a loaded slate, including LSU at Clemson, Notre Dame at Miami and Alabama at Florida State, among others. LSU-Clemson could be a top-five matchup, as could the biggest headliner: Manning and Texas visiting Ohio State in a matchup of the 2024 national champion and our early 2025 favorite.

The College Football Playoff selects locations several years in advance, and on Friday, it announced that the 2027 national championship will be held in Las Vegas at Allegiant Stadium. The date of the game has been scheduled for Monday, Jan. 25, 2027.

Ohio State did the one thing that was necessary after winning the College Football Playoff National Championship to keep the Buckeyes on top.