Playoff Schedules for 2024, 2025

College Football Playoff schedule unveiled for 12-team field in 2024, 2025

Sam Cooper (Yahoo Sports —  Some key details about the 12-team College Football Playoff were unveiled on Tuesday.

The CFP announced the schedule and bowl game assignments for the first two installments of the expanded format, which is going from four teams to 12 beginning with the 2024 season.

As a reminder, the 12-team playoff will consist of the six highest-ranked conference champions and the six highest-ranked at-large teams as chosen by the CFP selection committee. The top four conference champions will be seeded Nos. 1 through 4 and receive first-round byes. The remaining teams will play first-round games on the campus of the better seeds.

In 2024, those first-round games will take place on Friday, Dec. 20 and Saturday, Dec. 21. One game will be played on Friday night with the other three taking place on Saturday — one in the early afternoon, one in the late afternoon and another in the evening.

Moving ahead, the quarterfinals will be played at bowl sites on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. The Fiesta Bowl will be played at night on New Year’s Eve (a Tuesday) with the Peach Bowl, Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl all being played on New Year’s Day (Wednesday).

From there, the semifinals will be played at the Orange Bowl and Cotton Bowl on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025 and Friday, Jan. 10, 2025.

The CFP title game will then be held at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Monday, Jan. 20.

For the 2025 season, the scheduling layout is the same but the bowl assignments are different.

The first-round games on campus will be held on Friday, Dec. 19 and Saturday, Dec. 20 with one game on Friday night and the other three on Saturday. The first quarterfinal game, the Cotton Bowl, will be held on New Year’s Eve before the other three quarterfinals — the Orange Bowl (early afternoon), Rose Bowl (late afternoon) and Sugar Bowl (evening) — are played on New Year’s Day.

The semifinals for the 2025 season will be the Fiesta Bowl (Thursday, Jan. 8) and the Peach Bowl (Friday, Jan. 9) before the national championship at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami on Monday, Jan. 19.

What would a 12-team CFP have looked like in 2022?

Last season, the 12-team College Football Playoff would have looked like this based on the final rankings from the selection committee:

1 Georgia (SEC champion)

2 Michigan (Big Ten champion)

3 Clemson (ACC champion)

4 Utah (Pac-12 champion)

5 TCU (at-large)

6 Ohio State (at-large)

7 Alabama (at-large)

8 Tennessee (at-large)

9 Kansas State (Big 12 champion)

10 USC (at-large)

11 Penn State (at-large)

12 Tulane (highest-ranked Group of Five conference champion)

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Petero
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May 6, 2023 3:51 pm

USC Women’s Beach VB fought its way through the bracket as #3 seed to berth
in the final tomorrow against ….. #1 u c l a

Huge win today over TCU

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NIL NEWS: House of Victory Merges with 3400 Club Consolidation Leads to Expanded NIL Support  May 4, 2023 To best support USC student-athletes with Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) opportunities, House of Victory will merge with basketball-focused collective 3400 Club, effective immediately. House of Victory launched last month as an alumni-backed nonprofit platform dedicated to providing a competitive edge in the NIL space for University of Southern California student-athletes. A proud NIL sponsor of USC Athletics, House of Victory facilitates NIL opportunities to student-athletes across all of USC’s twenty-one sports. In its first month of existence, House of Victory announced… Read more »

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May 6, 2023 3:12 pm

Bronny James has decided he wants to play for USC basketball.

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May 6, 2023 10:39 am

In my email I receive a newsletter from the California State Attorney General. (Don’t know why I have blocked the sender and have never subscribed) Anyway I actually skimmed it today and he’s bloviating about our nation’s leading employment laws and how he’s investigating the NFL for violations such as pay inequality and other evil things. It’s as if the guy’s running for governor or something. This got me thinking about the group suing to make college athletes employees of their schools. What interesting ramifications could come from such an obvious mistake. For instance would a football player sue his… Read more »

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May 6, 2023 2:17 pm
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Rialto, Did he explain why numerous businesses are fleeing CA to escape its incredibly stupid labor laws? I sometimes think the NV & AZ Chambers of Commerce contribute to the campaign coffers of the woke CA politicians.

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If the student athletes were to be made employees of the university could the continue to accept NIL deals?

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Posting from Fayetteville, AR. Visiting one of our grandkids at Arkansas. On the way back from Branson, MO. Visited Branson with friends. Really enjoyed it. i think you asked the right question-did George have any clue how big a mess Larry Scott left behind? The pressure is now really on the 4 corner states. If the B12 chooses to add Fresno, UNLV & San Diego State, it may close the conference to more expansion and seal the PAC 10 together. George missed the window for a $30 Million per year deal. My guess is they will play 2023 without a… Read more »

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May 4, 2023 9:02 am

So two USC journalism students, one a 40 yo grad student, the other a 19 yo, 2 of 5 students, sent by USC to cover the draft, were arrested and charged with stealing 3 NFL jerseys from the Nike Talent Room. Idiots! Especially the 40yo, grown man should know better.

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May 5, 2023 6:47 am
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I’ve always hoped Sam would make it big in the NFL. Being drafted by the Jets was a curse of death. Leonard Williams saw the light and is gone. So is Sam. Sam didn’t fare much better in Carolina, most likely due to injuries and an poor OL. I could see him thriving in SF and sure hope he does. I’ll never forget his performance in the Rose Bowl game vs Penn State-one of the most exciting Rose Bowls I’ve ever seen and I’ve been to 9 of them over the years. All USC except once I went to see… Read more »

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May 2, 2023 11:15 pm

As I read it, the traditional bowl game matchups are a thing of the past, although with USC in the Big 10 that’s a forgone conclusion. But it looks like the stadium will host a game on New Year’s Day, and anyone can be playing. It won’t feel the same.

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May 5, 2023 6:52 am
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I agree RialtoTrojan. It was always a classic when the BIG and PAC met in the Rose Bowl. Just before that agreement was signed decades ago, my relative Ted Tannehill, USC’s leading rusher in 1945, went up against Alabama in the 1946 Rose Bowl. Alabama kicked our butts that day, but what else is new except for the 1969 and 1978 games in Alabama.

volunteerTrojan
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May 2, 2023 6:22 pm
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The 10 day break between games is thoughtful, IMO.

Have you seen the retrospective on how last year’s 12 team playoff most likely would have looked? USC would have played AT Alabama.

I still wish we could know how last year would have turned out had Caleb not gotten injured. We’d have been in the playoff as it was, and who knows, we might’ve won it all. In the alternative 12 team world, going to Bama without Caleb would not have been pretty.

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May 2, 2023 7:56 pm
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Yeah, either of those teams probably would’ve scored on every possession, but who knows, an opportunistic pick here, a fumble there, and if our offense was dialed in…maybe, just maybe….

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May 2, 2023 1:04 pm

I really hope we can make the Playoffs this year. I would hate to have not made it to the 4-team playoff at all while ND has made it there a couple of times. They would always hold it over us that we needed expansion to make it, even if not ultimately true.

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May 2, 2023 4:22 pm
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As long as ND stays independent, looks like the best they can ever get is the #5 seed. In that case it would give them a home game and with a win, play the 4 seed.