ESPN College GameDay host Rece Davis and insider Pete Thamel made their predictions for Monday’s College Football Playoff National Championship Game between Ohio State and Notre Dame. And neither were too optimistic about the Fighting Irish pulling off the upset over the favored Buckeyes,

The first edition of the 12-team College Football Playoff is not perfect, according to ESPN's Rece Davis, who believes there is at least one change that he expects the "powers that be" to fix "immediately."

A couple of years ago, colleague Andy Nesbitt, writing for For The Win, authored an article arguing that college football's national championship game being on Monday night is one of the dumbest things in sports.

A seeding structure change to the College Football Playoff format is unlikely to gain the necessary support without compromise, multiple commissioners told Yahoo Sports this week. Eliminating the format’s rule designating the top four seeds — and first-round byes — only to conference champions has been discussed as a possible shift after