The College Football Week 16 Action is full of surprises, and so far, this 2024 brings us a new format for the Playoff that will make the race for the Championship even more exciting. There will no longer be 4, but 12 teams that will make the 2024-2025 postseason vibrant.
Thus, the new format includes five top-ranked conference champions, who will receive the automatic bid. The remaining seven top-ranked teams will complete the 12-team format, making the competition with more opportunities for teams to win the ultimate prize.
College Football Week 16 Action Schedule, Rankings and Standings
Now that you know how the format of the next playoffs will be, it is time to see the Conferences that have the most teams that have been present in this instance, so you can know that there are the mentioned “Power 4”, named precisely for their high winning presence in College Football. Take advantage by looking at which are the most likely to repeat successfully this year 2024/25 to take them into account.
NCAA Football Calendar 16, 2024/25 Season
Now that the “Week 15” is on the books, it’s time to look at the Conference Championship Games results in the College Football Week 15 Action:
Friday, December 6
- Western Kentucky 12-52 Jacksonville State | Conference USA Championship Game | CBSSN
- No. 17 Tulane 14-35 Army | AAC Championship Game | ABC
- No. 11 Boise State 21-7 No. 22 UNLV | Mountain West Championship Game | FOX
Saturday, December 7
- No. 1 Oregon 45-37 No. 4 Penn State | Big Ten Championship Game (Indianapolis) | CBS
- No. 3 Texas 19-22 No. 7 Georgia | SEC Championship Game (Atlanta) | ABC
- No. 9 SMU 31-34 No. 12 Clemson| ACC Championship Game (Charlotte, North Carolina) | ABC
- No. 16 Arizona State 45-19 No. 18 Iowa State | Big 12 Championship Game (Arlington, Texas) | ABC
- Miami (OH) 3-38 Ohio University | MAC Championship Game (Detroit, Michigan) | ESPN
- Louisiana 3-31 Marshall | Sun Belt Championship Game | ESPN
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Top 2024/25 NCAAF Week 16 Stats
| Passing Yards | ||
|---|---|---|
| Kyle McCord | Syracuse | 4326 |
| Cameron Ward | Miami (FL) | 4123 |
| Shedeur Sanders | Colorado | 3926 |
| Jaxson Dart | Ole Miss | 3875 |
| Chandler Morris | North Texas | 3774 |
| Rushing Yards | ||
|---|---|---|
| Ashton Jeanty | Boise State | 2288 |
| Omarion Hampton | North Carolina | 1660 |
| RJ Harvey | UCF | 1577 |
| Kaleb Johnson | Iowa | 1537 |
| Tahj Brooks | Texas Tech | 1505 |
| Sacks Per Game | ||
|---|---|---|
| Donovan Ezeiruaku | Boston College | 1.38 |
| Mike Green | Marshall | 1.33 |
| Antwaun Powell-Ryland | Virginia Tech | 1.33 |
| Trey White | San Diego State | 1.04 |
| Kyle Kennard | South Carolina | .96 |
| Receiving Yards | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nick Nash | San Jose State | 1382 |
| Harold Fannin Jr. | Bowling Green | 1342 |
| Tetairoa McMillan | Arizona | 1319 |
| Eric Rivers | FIU | 1172 |
| Travis Hunter | Colorado | 1152 |
AP Top 25 in the Week 16 – 2024/25 NCAAF Postseason
| RANK | SCHOOL | RECORD | PREVIOUS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oregon | 13-0 | 1 |
| 2 | Georgia | 11-2 | 5 |
| 3 | Texas | 11-2 | 2 |
| 4 | Penn State | 11-2 | 3 |
| 5 | Notre Dame | 11-1 | 4 |
| 6 | Ohio State | 10-2 | 6 |
| 7 | Tennessee | 10-2 | 7 |
| 8 | Indiana | 11-1 | 9 |
| 9 | Boise State | 12-1 | 10 |
| 10 | SMU | 11-2 | 8 |
| 11 | Alabama | 9-3 | 11 |
| 12 | Arizona State | 11-2 | 15 |
| 13 | Miami | 10-2 | 12 |
| 14 | Ole Miss | 9-3 | 13 |
| 15 | South Carolina | 9-3 | 14 |
| 16 | Clemson | 10-3 | 17 |
| 17 | BYU | 10-2 | 18 |
| 18 | Iowa State | 10-3 | 16 |
| 19 | Missouri | 9-3 | 19 |
| 20 | Illinois | 9-3 | 21 |
| 21 | Syracuse | 8-3 | NR |
| 22 | Army | 11-1 | 24 |
| 23 | Colorado | 9-3 | 23 |
| 24 | UNLV | 10-3 | 20 |
| 25 | Memphis | 10-2 | 25 |
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College Football Evolution
There is a serious debate about where, how and when this beautiful sport that gathers millions of people in the United States started, while some say its origin was in the 19th century, others claim it was after World War II.
Fortunately I took it upon myself to do some research, and indeed, according to ncaa.com, the first college soccer game was played in 1869 between Rutgers University and the College of New Jersey (now known as Princeton University).
It also put Rutgers University in history’s glory by winning the first U.S. college football game against Princeton.
Thus, the sport began at Northeastern and continued to be played at these two universities, and was also adopted at schools such as Yale, Harvard, Pennsylvania and Columbia.
^College Football is here to Stay
Matthew T. Himel, a historian at the University of Tennessee, has shown that in the 1890s college soccer games in the Northeast drew crowds in the tens of thousands and received extensive coverage in the New York press of those years.
Although it gradually grew in popularity in the South during the 1870s and 1880s, it now enjoys generation after generation of popularity throughout the United States and is now known to have fans around the world.
Important Events in the History of the NCAAF
1869: The first game is played in New Jersey, when Rutgers defeats Princeton 6-4 with 25 players each and a field 120 yards long and 75 yards wide.
1875: Columbia, Yale, Harvard and Stevens Tech join forces, leading to the growth of sports in the United States.
1876: New dimensions were established for the field of play, and the number of players was reduced to 15 and a crossbar was added to the goal posts at a height of 10 feet, as it is today.
1880 to 1890: It was early in this decade when Walter Camp, a former Yale player, proposed limiting players to 11, a system for playing the ball, requiring a team to make 5 yards on 3 downs.
1882: The marking of the field with the term gridiron is established, which served to establish the first fall rule.
1883: Changes were made to the first scoring system created in the sport, popularizing the game by increasing the value of touchdowns, kicking was emphasized, and field goals counted 5 points, while touchdowns and conversions each counted 4.
1884: Increased the total of one security from 1 to 2 points, still in existence today.1884: Increased the total of one security from 1 to 2 points, still in existence today.
1897: The value of a TD was raised to 5 points with a successful conversion for an additional 1 point value.
1900: By the beginning of the 20th century and with the changes established, the sport spread more rapidly, joining some 250 universities.
1903: Harvard unveils the first concrete stadium designed specifically for soccer.
1904: The field goal remained at 5 points until this year, reduced to 4 points.
1905: Football was banned! Columbia and other Universities, and even Theodore Roosevelt, protested and demanded changes in the sport for being brutal, causing injuries and deaths on the field.
1906: The forward pass is legalized, where players passed the ball to each other with restrictions.
1909: Touchdown points were further reduced to 3 points.
1910: Such a movement led to the creation of the NCAA, the principal body in regulating and formulating the rules of the sport’s procedures and in which all of its current members, i.e., teams and conferences, operate.
1912: The pass became an important offensive tool when greater passing flexibility was allowed. In addition, the touchdown was given its modern 6-point value.
1913: Notre Dame made use of this novel offensive tool, going undefeated on the season and upsetting then-mighty Army 35-13 at West Point.
1935: The Heisman Trophy was created.
1937: Numbers were required on both the front and back of the jerseys to identify players.
1967: In terms of enumeration, this rule was further modified to require numbers according to position, with offensive players ineligible to receive assigned numbers in the 50-79 range.
1975: The first and only player to win the Heisman Trophy in consecutive seasons was Archie Griffin.
1996: Tied game was eliminated in Division I-A.
Late 1990’s: Nearly 650 four-year colleges and universities (595 of them NCAA members) were fielding teams.
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Power 4 Conferences Standings in the NCAA Football in Week 16
Check out how the top Conferences you love to follow are faring in the Regular Season, now that there are 4 due to the collapse of the Pac-12 in 2023.
These are the ones you should know: Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big Ten Conference, Big 12 Conference, and Southeastern Conference (SEC). Let’s take a look at the first 5 places of each one!
ACC Conference
| Team | W | L | Home | Away | Strk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMU | 11 | 1 | 6-1 | 5-0 | Won 9 |
| Clemson | 9 | 3 | 5-2 | 4-0 | Lost 1 |
| Miami (FL) | 10 | 2 | 6-0 | 4-2 | Lost 1 |
| Syracuse | 9 | 3 | 6-1 | 3-2 | Won 3 |
| Duke | 9 | 3 | 5-1 | 4-2 | Won 3 |
W: Wins | L: Losses | Home: Home Record | Away: Road Record | Strk: Streak
Big Ten Conference
| Team | W | L | Home | Away | Strk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 12 | 0 | 7-0 | 5-0 | Won 12 |
| Indiana | 11 | 1 | 8-0 | 3-1 | Won 1 |
| Penn State | 11 | 1 | 6-1 | 5-0 | Won 4 |
| Ohio State | 10 | 2 | 7-1 | 3-1 | Lost 1 |
| Illinois | 9 | 3 | 6-1 | 3-2 | Won 3 |
W: Wins | L: Losses | Home: Home Record | Away: Road Record | Strk: Streak
Big 12 Conference
| Team | W | L | Home | Away | Strk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona State | 10 | 2 | 6-0 | 4-2 | Won 5 |
| Iowa State | 10 | 2 | 6-1 | 4-1 | Won 3 |
| BYU | 10 | 2 | 5-1 | 5-1 | Won 1 |
| Colorado | 9 | 3 | 5-1 | 4-2 | Won 1 |
| Texas Tech | 8 | 4 | 5-2 | 3-2 | Won 2 |
W: Wins | L: Losses | Home: Home Record | Away: Road Record | Strk: Streak
SEC Conference
| Team | W | L | Home | Away | Strk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | 1 | 6-1 | 4-0 | Won 5 |
| Tennessee | 10 | 2 | 7-0 | 2-2 | Won 2 |
| Georgia | 10 | 2 | 6-0 | 2-2 | Won 3 |
| Ole Miss | 9 | 3 | 6-1 | 3-2 | Won 1 |
| Alabama | 9 | 3 | 7-0 | 2-3 | Won 1 |
W: Wins | L: Losses | Home: Home Record | Away: Road Record | Strk: Streak
^NCAA Football Predictions 2024
One more reason to be well informed is to keep track of the daily happenings in the NCAAF, which can be beneficial for your future plans about the teams that will be in the Playoffs, the possible Heisman Trophy winner, Bowl season, and the Final Four we are all waiting for!
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College Football Winners at the National Championship
| Conference | Appearances | Wins | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEC | 10 | 6 | 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 |
| ACC | 4 | 2 | 2016, 2018 |
| Big Ten | 3 | 2 | 2014, 2023 |
| Pac-12 | 2 | 0 | |
| Big 12 | 1 | 0 |
What about the teams? Here are the ones that have reached the championship game the most times, a statistic you should take into account if you decide to follow one or more teams that are always favorites during the Regular Season and Postseason.
Recent Years
Best Quarterbacks from NCAAF to NFL
The best Quarterbacks in NFL history have come from College Football, the prestigious favorite sport for millions of people in the United States. The record-breaking history of the sport is impressive and so is the large number of teams that generation after generation have contributed significantly large numbers of players who have molded Football into the main feeder of players for the national football league.
In this way, rookies fresh out of college can dream of being Super Bowl MVP, hence the importance of college teams in continuing to develop young stars, which, in turn, earn millions of dollars in contracts and trades in the famous NFL Draft.
Throughout so many years, this sport has given us luminaries who have enriched the traditional American soccer and here we want to show you some who have excelled and exceeded expectations.
| Super Bowl | Player | NFL TEAM | Position | College |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | Bart Starr | Green Bay Packers | Quarterback | Alabama |
| II | Bart Starr | Green Bay Packers | Quarterback | Alabama |
| III | Joe Namath | New York Jets | Quarterback | Alabama |
| IV | Len Dawson | Kansas City Chiefs | Quarterback | Purdue |
| V | Chuck Howley | Dallas Cowboys | Linebacker | West Virginia |
| VI | Roger Staubach | Dallas Cowboys | Quarterback | Navy |
| VII | Jake Scott | Miami Dolphins | Safety | Georgia |
| VIII | Larry Csonka | Miami Dolphins | Fullback | Syracuse |
| IX | Franco Harris | Pittsburgh Steelers | Running Back | Penn State |
| X | Lynn Swann | Pittsburgh Steelers | Wide Receiver | Southern California |
| XI | Fred Biletnikoff | Oakland Raiders | Wide Receiver | Florida State |
| XII | Randy White, Harvey Martin |
Dallas Cowboys | Defensive linemen | Maryland, East Texas State |
| XIII | Terry Bradshaw | Pittsburgh Steelers | Quarterback | Louisiana Tech |
| XIV | Terry Bradshaw | Pittsburgh Steelers | Quarterback | Louisiana Tech |
| XV | Jim Plunkett | Oakland Raiders | Quarterback | Stanford |
| XVI | Joe Montana | San Francisco 49ers | Quarterback | Notre Dame |
| XVII | John Riggins | Washington Redskins | Running Back | Kansas |
| XVIII | Marcus Allen | LA Raiders | Running Back | Southern Caliornia |
| XIX | Joe Montana | San Francisco 49ers | Quarterback | Notre Dame |
| XX | Richard Dent | Chicago Bears | Defefnsive End | Tennessee State |
| XXI | Phil Simms | New York Giants | Quarterback | Morehead State |
| XXII | Doug Williams | Washington Redskins | Quarterback | Grambling State |
| XXIII | Jerry Rice | San Francisco 49ers | Wide receiver | Mississippi Valley State |
| XXIV | Joe Montana | San Francisco 49ers | Quarterback | Notre Dame |
| XXV | Ottis Anderson | New York Giants | Running back | Miami |
| XXVI | Mark Rypien | Washington Redskins | Quarterback | Washington State |
| XXVII | Troy Aikman | Dallas Cowboys | Quarterback | UCLA |
| XXVIII | Emmitt Smith | Dallas Cowboys | Running back | Florida |
| XXIX | Steve Young | San Francisco 49ers | Quarterback | BYU |
| XXX | Larry Brown | Dallas Cowboys | Cornerback | TCU |
| XXXI | Desmond Howard | Green Bay Packers | Kick returner | Michigan |
| XXXII | Terrell Davis | Denver Broncos | Running back | Georgia |
| XXXIII | John Elway | Denver Broncos | Quarterback | Stanford |
| XXXIV | Kurt Warner | St. Louis Rams | Quarterback | Northern Iowa |
| XXXV | Ray Lewis | Baltimore Ravens | Linebacker | Miami |
| XXXVI | Tom Brady | New England Patriots | Quarterback | Michigan |
| XXXVII | Dexter Jackson | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | Safety | Florida State |
| XXXVIII | Tom Brady | New England Patriots | Quarterback | Michigan |
| XXXIX | Deion Branch | New England Patriots | Wide receiver | Louisville |
| XL | Hines Ward | Pittsburgh Steelers | Wide receiver | Georgia |
| XLI | Peyton Manning | Indianapolis Colts | Quarterback | Tennessee |
| XLII | Eli Manning | New York Giants | Quarterback | Ole Miss |
| XLIII | Santonio Holmes | Pittsburgh Steelers | Wide receiver | Ohio State |
| XLIV | Drew Brees | New Orleans Saints | Quarterback | Purdue |
| XLV | Aaron Rodgers | Green Bay Packers | Quarterback | California |
| XLVI | Eli Manning | New York Giants | Quarterback | Ole Miss |
| XLVII | Joe Flacco | Baltimore Ravens | Quarterback | Delaware |
| XLVIII | Malcolm Smith | Seattle Seahawks | Linebacker | Southern California |
| XLIX | Tom Brady | New England Patriots | Quarterback | Michigan |
| 50 | Von Miller | Denver Broncos | Linebacker | Texas A+M |
| LI | Tom Brady | New England Patriots | Quarterback | Michigan |
| LII | Nick Foles | Philadelphia Eagles | Quarterback | Arizona |
| LIII | Julian Edelman | New England Patriots | Wide receiver | Kent State |
| LIV | Patrick Mahomes | Kansas City Chiefs | Quarterback | Texas Tech |
| LV | Tom Brady | Tampa Bay Bucs | Quarterback | Michigan |
| LVI | Cooper Kupp | Los Angeles Rams | Wide Receiver | Eastern Washington |
| LVII | Patrick Mahomes | Kansas City Chiefs | Quarterback | Texas Tech |
| LVIII | Patrick Mahomes | Kansas City Chiefs | Quarterback | Texas Tech |
Great list! Will Patrick Mahomes repeat as NFL Super MVP? There are odds on this and you can check out the favorites for this season 2024/25.
On the other hand, the Draft 2024 moves in Round 1 left big surprises and exceptional players coming from NCAA Football, for example, Caleb Williams left for the Chicago Bears, Jayden Daniels to Washington and Drake Maye packed his bags for New England.
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