The average final score over the first week of the College Football Playoffs: Winners 36, Losers 17

Will Howard threw two touchdown passes to freshman Jeremiah Smith and Ohio State routed Tennessee 42-17 on Saturday night in a first-round College Football Playoff game, setting up a New Year’s Day rematch with No. 1 Oregon at the Rose Bowl

Ohio State beats Tennessee 42-17 to advance to face Oregon in a College Football Playoff quarterfinal at the Rose Bowl

Jaydon Blue ran for 146 yards and two touchdowns, the last a 77-yard burst in the fourth quarter, and Texas beat Clemson 38-24 on Saturday in the first round of the expanded College Football Playoff

Texas beats Clemson 38-24 to set up College Football Playoff quarterfinal against Arizona State

Jeremiyah Love spent two weeks off battling a knee injury and an illness

Dominic DeLuca and Tony Rojas returned interceptions for touchdowns and Penn State toyed with mistake-prone SMU in a 38-10 victory in the opening round of the College Football Playoff

Penn State beats SMU 38-10 and advances to face Boise State in College Football Playoff

Jeremiyah Love tied the Notre Dame record with a 98-yard touchdown run, Riley Leonard added two more scores and the Fighting Irish shut down the highest-scoring team in the College Football Playoff, overwhelming Indiana 27-17 on Friday night