The College Football Playoff will remain at 12 teams after the commissioners of the Southeastern Conference and Big Ten couldn’t come up with a compromise for expansion.

If you count Week 0 as the start of the college football season -- and this writer does -- the 2026 campaign is a little more than eight months away.

The Irish saw linebacker Ellis McGaskin decide that South Bend won’t be where he’ll play his college football on Friday, officially exiting the class.