{"id":84168,"date":"2025-12-30T00:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T00:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/84168\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T00:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T00:48:07","slug":"how-to-watch-2025-26-college-football-playoff-quarterfinals-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/84168\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch 2025-26 College Football Playoff quarterfinals \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eight teams will soon trim to four<\/a> in the 2025-26 College Football Playoff<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Following some time to rest and recover from the first round, the action is set to continue with the new year on the horizon. Games will also move from on-campus stadiums to neutral sites, as the top four seeds enter the frame after their first-round byes.<\/p>\n

Those top four seeds are No. 1 Indiana, No. 2 Ohio State, No. 3 Georgia and No. 4 Texas Tech, which is in the CFP for the first time. Hoping to pull off the upsets are No. 5 Oregon, No. 6 Ole Miss, No. 9 Alabama and No. 10 Miami<\/a>. <\/p>\n

So, where will the games be played and where will they be available to watch? Here’s everything to know about the upcoming CFP quarterfinals:<\/p>\n

When are the College Football Playoff quarterfinals?<\/p>\n

The CFP quarterfinals will start with one game on Wednesday, Dec. 31 and three on New Year’s Day Thursday.<\/p>\n

What are the College Football Playoff quarterfinal matchups?<\/p>\n

Here’s the bracket and bowl game lineup for the quarterfinals, with Ohio State and Georgia on one side away from Indiana:<\/p>\n

Orange Bowl: No. 4 Texas Tech vs. No. 5 Oregon<\/p>\n

Rose Bowl: No. 1 Indiana vs. No. 9 Alabama<\/p>\n

Sugar Bowl: No. 3 Georgia vs. No. 6 Ole Miss<\/p>\n

Cotton Bowl: No. 2 Ohio State vs. No. 10 Miami<\/p>\n

When and where are the College Football Playoff quarterfinals being played?<\/p>\n

Quarterfinal games will be played at these neutral sites with the following kickoff times:<\/p>\n

No. 2 Ohio State vs. No. 10 Miami:\u00a0Wednesday, Dec. 31 at 7:30 p.m. ET\/6:30 p.m. CT\/4:30 p.m. PT; AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas<\/p>\n

No. 4 Texas Tech vs. No. 5 Oregon:\u00a0Thursday, Jan. 1 at 12 p.m. ET\/11 a.m. CT\/9 a.m. PT; Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida<\/p>\n

No. 1 Indiana vs. No. 9 Alabama:\u00a0Thursday, Jan. 1 at 4 p.m. ET\/3 p.m. CT\/1 p.m. PT; Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California<\/p>\n

No. 3 Georgia vs. No. 6 Ole Miss:\u00a0Thursday, Jan. 1 at 8 p.m. ET\/7 p.m. CT\/5 p.m. PT; Caesars Superdome in New Orleans<\/p>\n

How to watch the College Football Playoff quarterfinals on TV <\/p>\n

All quarterfinal games will be broadcast on ESPN.<\/p>\n

How to stream the College Football Playoff quarterfinals online<\/p>\n

The games will also be available to\u00a0stream on\u00a0ESPN.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0the ESPN app<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When are the College Football Playoff semifinals?<\/p>\n

After this round are the semifinals, which will be played on Thursday, Jan. 8 and Friday, Jan. 9.<\/p>\n

The winners of Ohio State-Miami and Georgia-Ole Miss will clash in the Fiesta Bowl (Glendale, Ariz.) first. The Texas Tech-Oregon and Indiana-Alabama victors will follow the day after in the Peach Bowl (Atlanta, Ga.).<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFernando Mendoza, Miami native and the mercurial quarterback of No. 1 Indiana, won the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night, becoming the first Hoosier to win college football\u2019s most prestigious award since its inception in 1935.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight teams will soon trim to four in the 2025-26 College Football Playoff. Following some time to rest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11590,33418,12612,27552,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-84168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-college-football","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}