As the first 12-team College Football Playoff ends, leaders are discussing what to change in the future. Here are the main topics.

A 12th regular-season opponent has yet to be announced for 2025, but AD Pete Bevacqua expressed confidence that puzzle would be resolved to Notre Dame’s satisfaction.

Notre Dame showed this season why its comfortable staying independent — even if it has to play an extra game in its quest for a championship.

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Any adjustments to the College Football Playoff for next season, including a potential tweak in the way the teams are seeded, would have to take place later this year, probably in the spring.

ATLANTA — The early betting favorite to win next year's national championship: Ohio State. The question nobody can really answer at this time: What sort of sport will the Buckeyes or anyone else return to when they kick it off again seven months from now.

The College Football Playoff board of managers met ... 10 FBS conference commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua. “Remember, it’s one year, and so I don’t think ...

ATLANTA — Pete Bevacqua thinks the first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff has gone well, but he understands he may have a different perspective than other decision-makers within the ...

ATLANTA — Notre Dame athletic director Pete ... football program’s 36-year national championship drought end in his first calendar year at the helm, called the new 12-team College Football ...

ATLANTA — Any adjustments to the College Football Playoff for next season ... top four teams,” Fighting Irish athletic director Pete Bevacqua said a day earlier. Stay logged in.

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish athletic director, Pete Bevacqua, said that the school would prefer to remain independent in football, even if that means no byes in the College Football Playoff.

Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua addressed the media this weekend in advance of the College Football Playoff National Championship between Notre Dame and Ohio State on Monday night. One