2024-25 College Football Playoff: R.J. Young's 3 things we learned from Round 1

The first round of the first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff is in the books.

Notre Dame, Penn State, Texas and Ohio State came out of the weekend victorious, punching their tickets to the quarterfinals. Unlike this past weekend's games, the next four matchups will be bowl games held at neutral sites on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

As we still have some time to preview the four quarterfinal games, FOX Sports college football analyst R.J. Young shared the three biggest things we learned from the first round. 

While there seemed to be much consternation over the results of the first-round games, Young wants to send a reminder that what happened over the weekend isn't a new development in the CFP era.

"LSU beat Oklahoma 63-28 in 2019. Oregon smashed Florida State 59-20 in 2014. Clemson rocked Ohio State 31-0 in 2016," Young said. "This isn't the first time we've seen teams with great records get trounced in the playoffs. It's just the first time we've seen it with home-field advantage."

To Young's point, 14 of the 30 games in the four-team version of the CFP were determined by at least 20 points. Twenty of them were won by at least two scores.

Moreover, of the 12 teams in the playoff field this season, six of them lost a game by multiple scores earlier this year. Two of the first four teams left out of the CFP bracket also dropped a game by at least two scores this season. 

Of the four winners from the games over the weekend, Young believes one of them shined more than the rest.

"The Buckeyes put up 42 points on a team that had not allowed more than 30 all year long and held that offense to 10 points when it scored at least 14 in every other game it played," Young said. "This wasn't a fluke, it was a promise —