PASADENA, Calif. – By the time the sun set over the San Gabriel Mountains, Ohio State had little worry about the outcome of their College Football Playoff quarterfinal against Oregon.

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Just two teams are left standing with a shot at the College Football Playoff National Championship as the inaugural 12-team tournament has reached the finish line. No. 7 seed Notre Dame is set to take on No.

The CFP will never likely surpass the NFL in the attention economy, but the march through the first 12-team Playoff has been a positive one.

The college football postseason ends on Monday. The national title game between Notre Dame and Ohio State marks the end of the first 12-team playoff. The new CFP format has had a little bit of everything over the past month: upsets, blowouts, home games ...

There have been performances throughout the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff that should remind us all that players want to play on the biggest stages and at the biggest moments.  In an age where the prevalent theme of December and January in the sport is complaining about who isn't playing -- opt-outs of the full-game and halftime variety -- it is enlightening to dig into who is and what they have to go through to suit up.

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.

Mikaylah Williams scored 22 points, Aneesah Morrow had her 18th double-double of the season and No. 5 LSU stayed unbeaten with an 80-63 victory at Florida in front of Tigers great Shaquille O’Neal

Freshman star Toby Fournier scored 23 points and grabbed 11 rebounds off the bench to help turn a Top 25 showdown into a blowout as No. 16 Duke beat No. 18 California 72-38

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Ohio State Buckeyes have advanced to the College Football Playoff National Championship game. The No. 7-seed Fighting Irish defeated the Indiana Hoosiers, Georgia Bulldogs,