2025 College Football Playoff championship odds: Ohio State, Indiana lead field, Miami gets in
What a weekend in college football.Saturday’s conference title games gave us everything we could have ever wanted.We saw huge upsets, teams establish their dominance, and enough late-game drama to fill Lucas Oil Stadium.That drama carried over into Sunday as the College Football Playoff field was announced.
The major takeaway, Miami and Alabama are in and Notre Dame is out.We’ll hear plenty from those fanbases over the next few weeks, but more importantly, we’ll get 12 teams playing high-level football in late December and January.Here’s a look at the odds for every team in the field to win the College Football Playoff championship.Ohio State remains a +220 favorite to win the national championship despite losing to Indiana Saturday in the Big 10 title game.The Hoosiers, who have the No.
1 seed in the College Football Playoff, check in with the second-best odds at +320.Notre Dame was +700 and tied with Georgia with the third-best odds to win the national championship before the field was announced, but now that they are out, Georgia’s odds have moved to +550.Texas Tech and Oregon round out the top five, tied with +850 odds to take home the CFP national championship trophy.JMU punched its ticket to the playoffs with a win in the Sun Belt championship game against Troy and finished the season 12-1.Oregon closed out its season rolling through its schedule with six straight wins, including a 15-point victory against USC and a 12-point win on the road against Washington.The winner between JMU and Oregon will face Big-12 Champion No.4 Texas Tech in the quarterfinals.Alabama fans will rejoice that they made the playoff field despite losing in the SEC championship game by a rout and finishing 10-3.
Oklahoma finished 10-2 and beat Bama on the road in November, a week after beating Tennessee on the road.Despite their head-to-head record and Oklahoma’s home-field advantage, the Crimson Tide is favored on the road in the first-round matchup.The winner will face ...