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College Football Playoffs Explained: Who Decides Who’s In? | 12.20.25

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🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Readers of The Pour Over pick a topic to have explained, and Jason and Kathleen have to get Joe to understand it in less than 30 minutes… This week, they’re explaining college football playoffs. Looking to support us? You can choose to pay⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out The Pour Over's Gift Guide!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out our sponsors! We actually use and enjoy every single one. ⁠⁠Cru⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Safe House Project⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Life Application Study Bible⁠⁠ ⁠⁠CCCU⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Upside⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Mosh⁠⁠ ⁠⁠LMNT⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Theology in the Raw⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Not Just Sunday Podcast⁠⁠ ⁠⁠She Reads Truth⁠⁠ The Pour Over’s Newsletters: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Pour Over⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Decaf⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠News Health⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Praying the News⁠

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0:00.0

Today's episode is brought to you by our lead sponsor, Safe House Project. Okay, so today we're going to talk about how the college football playoffs work. We're going to talk about who's in, who's out, what's the controversy, why is Notre Dame so mad, what happened before the college football playoffs, before we had this committee and what were they thinking? We had the BCS and what was wrong with the BCS.

0:21.0

Do you guys know what the BCS is?

0:22.8

No.

0:23.3

We're going to talk about it.

0:23.9

We're going to talk about why the playoffs are a much better system.

0:27.2

We're going to talk about who has the most national championships in history.

0:31.2

Spoiler alert.

0:34.0

Yeah, we're just going to talk about all things college football playoff with some fun facts about when football first started and where some things came from.

0:41.5

Yeah, the bowl games.

0:42.4

The New Year's Six.

0:43.3

Do you know what the New Year's Six?

0:44.7

No.

0:45.1

Sounds like a band.

0:46.3

Excited to learn.

0:47.2

Ooh, yeah.

0:48.0

The New Year's six.

0:49.2

That'd be a great band name.

0:51.4

The three of us should start it.

0:53.6

I'm out.

0:56.9

Okay, so I will say the biggest reason for me, the first year of the college football playoffs,

1:03.8

the Alabama was in, semifinals, number one, and they played number four, Ohio State,

1:10.3

and lost.

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