Mac Jones took to social media to react to Ohio State's first touchdown in the national title game against Notre Dame.

After what feels like a lifetime of waiting, the best football of the season is here, and you expect good things when you sit down to watch the College Football Playoff National Championship. Hopefully, there’s a good game, and before everything gets started, there’s some excellent singing, too.

College Football Playoff national championship kicks off on Monday evening, as Notre Dame will take on Ohio State in Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Ohio State will look to win its first national title since 2014,

When there's a talented team on a mission, it's a scary thing for the rest of the college football world. There wasn't a better group of players assembled

Now that it’s all over and the Ohio State Buckeyes are the college football national champions, it can be definitively said: Expanding the College Football Playoff worked.

With Ohio State winning its first national championship in a decade, let's find out if the 2024 Buckeyes are among the best College Football Playoff National Champions to date. Some of these teams were all-timers!

Since the start of the College Football Playoff in 2014, there have been 11 national champions. Which were the best? We ranked them all.

Editor’s note: This is a guest column from former writer and columnist Dave Jones, who retired from PennLive last May after 33 years covering Penn State. Jones, who will be recognized with the Football Writers Association of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award on Jan. 17 in Atlanta, offers his thoughts on the current playoff format.

Chris Jones was a five-star defensive end at Houston High School in Houston, Miss. Jones was rated as high as the second-best player in the country, depending on the recruiting service, and the No. 1 player in Mississippi in the class of 2013.

The College Football Playoff (CFP) has announced an exciting array of pregame entertainment for the 2025 National Championship.

Alabama leads all programs with three CFP titles. Georgia and Clemson are the only other teams with multiple titles in the CFP era, but Ohio State can add its name to the list with a win over Notre Dame for its first championship since 2014.

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.