{"id":335572,"date":"2025-12-07T19:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/335572\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T19:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:16:09","slug":"college-football-playoff-bracket-teams-matchups-times-tv-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/335572\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Playoff: Bracket, teams, matchups, times, TV channels"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 12-team 2025 College Football Playoff<\/a> bracket was revealed on Sunday. It wasn’t without controversy, as Alabama and Miami made the field while Notre Dame was left out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the decisions are final and the matchups are set. Here’s how to watch all the playoff action for the next month until a champion is crowned on Jan. 19 in Miami.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The 2025 College Football Playoff bracket. (Yahoo Sports)<\/p>\n

First-round byes<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

First-round matchupsFriday, Dec. 19<\/p>\n

No. 9 Alabama at No. 8 Oklahoma, 8 p.m. ET on ABC, ESPN<\/p>\n

Saturday, Dec. 20<\/p>\n

No. 10 Miami at No. 7 Texas A&M, Noon ET on ABC, ESPN
No. 11 Tulane at No. 6 Ole Miss, 3:30 p.m. ET on TNT, truTV, HBO<\/a> Max
No. 12 James Madison at No. 5 Oregon, 7:30 p.m ET on TNT, truTV, HBO Max<\/p>\n

QuarterfinalsWednesday, Dec. 31<\/p>\n

Cotton Bowl: No. 2 Ohio State vs. Texas A&M\/Miami \u2014 7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN<\/p>\n

Thursday, Jan. 1<\/p>\n

Orange Bowl: No. 4 Texas Tech vs. Oregon\/James Madison \u2014 Noon ET, ESPN
Rose Bowl: No. 1 Indiana vs. Oklahoma\/Alabama \u2014 4 p.m. ET, ESPN
Sugar Bowl: No. 3 Georgia vs. Ole Miss\/Tulane \u2014 8 p.m. ET, ESPN<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

Semifinals Thursday, Jan. 8<\/p>\n

Fiesta Bowl (Glendale, Ariz.) \u2014 7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN<\/p>\n

Friday, Jan. 9<\/p>\n

Peach Bowl (Atlanta) \u2014 7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN<\/p>\n

CFP National Championship<\/p>\n

Monday, Jan. 19<\/p>\n

Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. \u2014 7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 12-team 2025 College Football Playoff bracket was revealed on Sunday. It wasn’t without controversy, as Alabama and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5688,352,2821,8393,99,20471],"class_list":["post-335572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-espn","tag-miami","tag-notre-dame","tag-sports","tag-texas-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}