Here are the highlights from Saturday's highly anticipated slate of college football conference championship games!

The 2025 college football season opened with a familiar mix of favorites, sleepers, and longshots across every conference. By December, the sport delivered its usual blend of validation and chaos, with some programs living up to expectations and others smashing every projection placed in front of them.

Never again let someone try to tell you the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff is bad for the sport or makes conference championship games meaningless.

If Virginia beat Duke, the Cavaliers would likely earn an automatic bid, leaving James Madison (11-1 but ranked below several contenders at No. 25) out. But if unranked Duke won the ACC title game over Virginia, JMU of the Sun Belt could get the automatic bid as a better conference champ than Duke.

The 2025 college football regular season has officially concluded. 12 FBS college football programs were selected to the 2025 College Football Playoff on Sunday