The first 12-team College Football Playoff features four teams looking to break national championship droughts of 10 years or more. Who will win the first national title of the new era. Ohio State won its last national championship in 2014 - the first year of the four-team College Football Playoff.

There are a handful of instances in which a team did not win its conference title, but played for the national championship. It will happen again this season.

T he Penn State Nittany Lions are often considered one of the blue bloods of college football. It's hard to not think about Happy Valley, about Beaver Stadium, about the navy and