Notre Dame-Ohio State Showdown Validates College Football’s Expanded Playoffs
Finalists emerge from a 12-team field to reach the national championship game.
The two teams who meet for the college football national championship Monday night at Atlanta would not be in the playoffs if not for the expansion to 12 teams. Notre Dame, the No. 7 seed, plays No. 8 seed Ohio State at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, culminating the first year in which the playoffs were expanded from just four teams.
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