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College Football Playoff<\/p>\nAs always, the college football season concludes with the most wonderful time of the year — bowl season.<\/p>\n
In 2025, that includes the second year of the 12-team College Football Playoff, which culminates with the crowning of a national champion on Monday, Jan. 19, at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. The CFP begins with four first-round games to be played at campus sites Dec. 19 and 20. The quarterfinals and semifinals follow at the traditional New Year’s Six bowl games.<\/p>\n
Bowl season kicks off Dec. 13 at noon with the Cricket Celebration Bowl at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.<\/p>\n
In all, 35 bowl games are scheduled, in addition to the 11 games of the CFP, and 41 of those games will air on the ESPN\/ABC family of networks.<\/p>\n
College Football Playoff<\/p>\n
First-round games (at campus sites)<\/p>\n
Friday, Dec. 19<\/p>\n
8 p.m., ABC\/ESPN<\/p>\n
Saturday, Dec. 20<\/p>\n
Noon, ABC\/ESPN<\/p>\n
4 p.m., TNT Sports<\/p>\n
8 p.m., TNT Sports<\/p>\n
CFP quarterfinals<\/p>\n
Tuesday, Dec. 31<\/p>\n
CFP Quarterfinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic
AT&T Stadium (Arlington, Texas)
7:30 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Wednesday, Jan. 1<\/p>\n
CFP Quarterfinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl
Hard Rock Stadium (Miami Gardens, Florida)
Noon, ESPN<\/p>\n
CFP Quarterfinal at the Rose Bowl Game Presented by Prudential
Rose Bowl (Pasadena, California)
4 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
CFP Quarterfinal at the Allstate Sugar Bowl
Caesars Superdome (New Orleans)
8 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
CFP semifinals, national championship game<\/p>\n
Thursday, Jan. 8<\/p>\n
CFP Semifinal at the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl
State Farm Stadium (Glendale, Arizona)
7:30 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Friday, Jan. 9<\/p>\n
CFP Semifinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl
Mercedes-Benz Stadium (Atlanta)
7:30 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Monday, Jan. 19<\/p>\n
CFP National Championship
Hard Rock Stadium (Miami Gardens, Florida)
7:45 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Complete bowl season schedule<\/p>\n
Saturday, Dec. 13<\/p>\n
Cricket Celebration Bowl
Mercedes-Benz Stadium (Atlanta)
Noon, ABC<\/p>\n
LA Bowl
SoFi Stadium (Inglewood, California)
9 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Tuesday, Dec. 16<\/p>\n
IS4S Salute to Veterans Bowl
Cramton Bowl (Montgomery, Alabama)
9 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Wednesday, Dec. 17<\/p>\n
StaffDNA Cure Bowl
Camping World Stadium (Orlando, Florida)
5 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
68 Ventures Bowl
Hancock Whitney Stadium (Mobile, Alabama)
8:30 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Friday, Dec. 19<\/p>\n
Myrtle Beach Bowl
Brooks Stadium (Conway, South Carolina)
Noon, ESPN<\/p>\n
Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl
Raymond James Stadium (Tampa, Florida)
3:30 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Monday, Dec. 22<\/p>\n
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
Albertsons Stadium (Boise, Idaho)
2 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Tuesday, Dec. 23<\/p>\n
Boca Raton Bowl
Flagler Credit Union Stadium (Boca Raton, Florida)
2 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
New Orleans Bowl
Caesars Superdome (New Orleans)
5:30 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Scooter’s Coffee Frisco Bowl
Frisco, Texas
9 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Wednesday, Dec. 24<\/p>\n
Sheraton Hawai’i Bowl
Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex (Honolulu)
8 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Friday, Dec. 26<\/p>\n
GameAbove Sports Bowl
Ford Field (Detroit)
1 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Rate Bowl
Chase Field (Phoenix)
4:30 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
SERVPRO First Responder Bowl
Gerald J. Ford Stadium (Dallas)
8 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Saturday, Dec. 27<\/p>\n
Go Bowling Military Bowl
Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (Annapolis, Maryland)
11 a.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl
Yankee Stadium (Bronx, New York)
Noon, ABC<\/p>\n
Wasabi Fenway Bowl
Fenway Park (Boston)
2:15 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Pop-Tarts Bowl
Camping World Stadium (Orlando, Florida)
3:30 p.m., ABC<\/p>\n
Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl
Arizona Stadium (Tucson, Arizona)
4:30 p.m., CW Network<\/p>\n
Isleta New Mexico Bowl
University Stadium (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
5:45 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
TaxSlayer Gator Bowl
EverBank Stadium (Jacksonville, Florida)
7:30 p.m. ABC<\/p>\n
Kinder’s Texas Bowl
NRG Stadium (Houston)
9:15 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Monday, Dec. 29<\/p>\n
Birmingham Bowl
Protective Stadium (Birmingham, Alabama)
2 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Tuesday, Dec. 30<\/p>\n
Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl
Independence Stadium (Shreveport, Louisiana)
2 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Music City Bowl
Nissan Stadium (Nashville, Tennessee)
5:30 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Valero Alamo Bowl
Alamodome (San Antonio)
9 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Wednesday, Dec. 31<\/p>\n
ReliaQuest Bowl
Raymond James Stadium (Tampa, Florida)
Noon, ESPN<\/p>\n
Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl
Sun Bowl Stadium (El Paso, Texas)
2 p.m., CBS<\/p>\n
Cheez-It Citrus Bowl
Camping World Stadium (Orlando, Florida)
3 p.m., ABC<\/p>\n
SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl
Allegiant Stadium (Las Vegas)
3:30 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Friday, Jan. 2<\/p>\n
Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl
Amon G. Carter Stadium (Fort Worth, Texas)
1 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
AutoZone Liberty Bowl
Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium (Memphis, Tennessee)
4:30 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Duke’s Mayo Bowl
Bank of America Stadium (Charlotte, North Carolina)
8 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
TBD<\/p>\n
DIRECTV Holiday Bowl
Snapdragon Stadium (San Diego)
Time TBD, Fox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As always, the college football season concludes with the most wonderful time of the year — bowl season.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-60790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}