Mac Jones took to social media to react to Ohio State's first touchdown in the national title game against Notre Dame.

After what feels like a lifetime of waiting, the best football of the season is here, and you expect good things when you sit down to watch the College Football Playoff National Championship. Hopefully, there’s a good game, and before everything gets started, there’s some excellent singing, too.

College Football Playoff National Championship is here! Live from the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta as fans packed the seats for what they hoped to be a suspenseful game by the two finest college football teams in the nation.

USA TODAY is the most recent national outlet to rank the 2020 Crimson Tide as the greatest of the playoff era, joining ESPN.

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Now that it’s all over and the Ohio State Buckeyes are the college football national champions, it can be definitively said: Expanding the College Football Playoff worked.

Editor’s note: This is a guest column from former writer and columnist Dave Jones, who retired from PennLive last May after 33 years covering Penn State. Jones, who will be recognized with the Football Writers Association of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award on Jan. 17 in Atlanta, offers his thoughts on the current playoff format.

Since the start of the College Football Playoff in 2014, there have been 11 national champions. Which were the best? We ranked them all.

Ohio State quarterback Will Howard connected on his first 13 passes against Notre Dame to set the record for consecutive completions in a College Football ... Alabama's Mac Jones set the previous ...

Future watch: It’s inevitable that Lamar Jackson will reach the Super Bowl someday. That was the media mantra after the Ravens were flushed from the playoffs. Presumably, some are slicing the same baloney about the Bills’ Josh Allen. But nothing is promised either quarterback as long as Patrick Mahomes, only 29, remains active.

Mac McWilliams will compete in the Senior Bowl on Sunday, which is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. in Mobile. The game will be broadcast on the NFL Network.

Per "NFL Rookie Watch" on X, one player impressing people is former Bowling Green tight end Harold Fannin Jr. Fannin is reportedly beginning to "separate himself" as the best tight end at the event.