The Ohio State Buckeyes beat the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the College Football Playoff National Championship on Jan. 20, and the betting odds for the 2025-26 title have already been released. The

Ohio State looked mostly dominant through its College Football Playoff championship run, but the Buckeyes are not favored to repeat next year.

Only one game remains in what has been the longest college football season in history, which started way back on Aug. 24, 2024, when Georgia Tech upset then-No. 10 Florida State 24-21 in Ireland. That contest in Week 0 certainly set the tone for what would be a wild college football season that will go down in the memory banks.

It’s the Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. the Ohio State Buckeyes in the national championship game. The game will be played Monday, Jan. 20, at 7:30 EST at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. It’s the first national championship game to be held as part of the newly expanded College Football Playoff, which went to 12 teams for the first time this year.

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Ohio State entered the postseason as the No. 8 seed in the bracket and beat Tennessee, Oregon, Texas and Notre Dame, all by double digits