Team-competitive games began in mid-December and concluded with the 2023 College Football Playoff National Championship on January 9, 2023, which was won by the Georgia Bulldogs.
A 13-member committee of experts ranked the top 25 teams in the nation after each of the last seven weeks of the regular season.
The top four teams in the final ranking are then seeded in a single-elimination semifinal round, with the winners advancing to the National Championship game.
The winners advanced to the 2023 College Football Playoff National Championship on January 9, 2023.
The FCS also has a postseason bracket tournament that culminates in the 2023 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game.
The College Football Playoff (CFP) selection committee announced its final team rankings for the season on December 4, 2022.
[22] Prestige and capacity of venues usually increases as the schedule progresses towards to NY6 bowls and the national championship, in large part due to scheduling Top 25 teams late into the bowl games' time frame, while bowl games before Christmas Day typically involve schools in Group of Five conferences and FBS Independents (with the exception of Notre Dame due to being a member of the ACC in all other sports except for men's hockey which competes in the Big Ten).