The 2024-25 College Football Playoff bracket is rolling, with 12 teams competing in the expanded format for the first time. The top four seeds earned first-round byes, while seeds No. 5-8 all advanced in the first round. The quarterfinals began Tuesday night as No. 6 seed Penn State won and covered against No. 3 Boise State.

For the rest of the quarterfinals, No. 5 Texas is -13.5 against No. 4 Arizona State, No. 9 Ohio State is -2.5 against top-seeded Oregon and No. 7 Notre Dame is +1 against No. 2 Georgia.

Texas is the +320 favorite to win it all in the updated CFP futures odds, followed by Ohio State (+340), Penn State (+370), Oregon (+500), Georgia (+600), Notre Dame (+700) and Arizona State (+6500).

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Now, it has studied the latest college football odds (see the latest college football lines for each matchup this week on our college football odds page), simulated every single play for every College Football Playoff game, and the results are in. 

One team the model is high on for the College Football Playoff is No. 5 Texas winning and covering (-13.5) against No. 4 Arizona. Texas (-13.5) covers nearly 60% of the time and advances well over 80% of the time. 

The model has simulated the rest of the College Football Playoff bracket, and it's calling for multiple surprises that set up a shocking National Championship Game matchup!

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