The Big 12 released its 2025 football schedule Tuesday, setting the stage for another season of back-and-forth battles in a conference that delivered thrills on a weekly basis in 2024. When Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark banged the podium to proclaim his conference the most competitive in the country at media days last July,

The 2024 college football season featured dozens of highly entertaining games. But the Arizona State vs. Texas matchup in the College Football Playoff quarterf

One team looking to achieve this goal was the Penn State Nittany Lions. In 2024, they reached their first College Football Playoff and made it all the way to the semifinals, but they lost in a heartbreaking fashion to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the final seconds.

Notre Dame is fresh off an impressive run to the College Football Playoff National Championship, taking full advantage of the first year of the 12-team format while marching to Atlanta as the No. 7 seed.

The first 12-team Playoff had a lot of great moments. It could also use some tweaks. In the short term, leaders are unlikely to make major changes to the format for the 2025 season. The bigger stuff is more likely to come in 2026, when the new contracts kick in and the SEC and Big Ten basically get to do whatever they want.

Andy Staples of On3 believes that Notre Dame football will make the CFP Championship game again in 2025, but with the same result as in 2024.

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