College Football Playoff has already provided some unexpected twists and turns, most notably with No. 10 seed Miami pulling an upset of No. 2 seed Ohio State in the quarterfinals. The Hurricanes' stunning dominance of the reigning national champions messed up a lot of brackets.

We're still learning a lot about the modern era of college football. The coaches in the Playoff are another intriguing footnote.

The College Football Playoff is on to the semifinals, with a pair of matchups this week: No. 1 Indiana against No. 5 Oregon in the Peach Bowl in Atlanta and No. 6 Ole Miss against No. 10 Miami in the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona. The winners of those games advance to the national championship.

The Peach Bowl is an incredibly charitable bowl game and exists in a special space relative to the other bowls that all know and love. As it is Atlanta-based it shares a city with the College Football Hall of Fame and has created a bit of a universe for itself relative to college football overall.

Few college football fans would have predicted that one of the two College Football Playoff semifinals would feature a showdown between the Miami Hurricanes and

Indiana also might have the best quarterback in the country. Fernando Mendoza won the Heisman Trophy for good reason and could be the first pick in the NFL Draft this spring. So that certainly brings some "sizzle" to the matchup for television purposes. Plus, you can always sell this as New Blood vs. Blue Blood.

The 2025 NFL regular season has ended, and the football league has set the postseason schedule leading up to Super Bowl LX. Fourteen teams will continue on their road to the Vince Lombardi Trophy, which will be hosted at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara,

The Indiana Hoosiers and Oregon Ducks are set to face each other in a Big Ten rematch, but this time, a berth in the college football National Championship is o

Including this year's crop, we're now up to 48 playoff semifinalists since the CFP's inception in 2014 and with that in mind, we're ranking every College Football Playoff semifinalist from No. 1 to No. 48.