page_title: College Football Playoff
section_title: Appearances
hierarchical_section_title: College Football Playoff / Appearances
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context_page_description: The College Football Playoff is an annual postseason knockout invitational tournament to determine a national champion for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, the highest level of college football competition in the United States. Four teams play in two semifinal games, and the winner of each semifinal advances to the College Football Playoff National Championship game.
  The inaugural tournament was held at the end of the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season and was won by the Ohio State Buckeyes, who defeated the Oregon Ducks in the championship game. After the first season, the playoff was dominated for several years by two teams, the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Clemson Tigers; they faced each other in the championship game three times, and in one other year they met in the semifinals.
  A 13-member committee selects and seeds the four teams to take part in the CFP. This system differs from the use of polls or computer rankings that had previously been used to select the participants for the Bowl Championship Series, the title system used in FBS from 1998 to 2013.
caption: Teams that have appeared in the College Football Playoff
  Blue pog.svg  5 appearances, Red pog.svg  4 appearances, Yellow pog.svg 3 appearances,
  Black pog.svg 2 appearances, White pog.svg 1 appearance
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