2024–25 College Football Playoff
Season 2024 – Nov. 19, 2024
Frank Coyle’ Publisher
Tonight, the CFP committee will unveil their newest Top 25 football standings. It is the third weekly CFP standings which will continue through the end of the regular season. The CFP system made major changes this year, extending to 12 teams with the top four clubs receiving byes in the first round of the playoffs. It provides some interesting debates with many teams in contention with only the final month of the regular season still remaining. The top five conference winners are guaranteed a seed. Currently, six SEC teams are still alive.
CFP Rankings Show – Tonight 7 pm – ESPN
CFP Playoff System
The 2024–25 College Football Playoff is an upcoming single-elimination bracket invitational tournament to determine the national champion of the 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It will be the 11th edition of the College Football Playoff (CFP) and will involve twelve teams as ranked by the College Football Playoff poll.
The 2024–25 playoff will be the first to use a twelve-team bracket. The previous 10 annual playoffs of the College Football Playoff contained only four teams. The five highest-ranked conference champions including one from the Group of Five conferences will be selected to compete, along with the top seven at-large teams. Furthermore, the top four conference champions will receive a first-round bye in the playoff.
The playoff bracket’s first round games will be held on December 20 and 21 at respective campus sites. In the quarterfinals, scheduled for December 31 and January 1, 2025, at the Fiesta Bowl, Peach Bowl, Rose Bowl, and Sugar Bowl, the top four seeds will play the lowest remaining seeds in the bracket. The winners of those games will advance to the Playoff semifinals, held at the Cotton Bowl Classic and Orange Bowl, scheduled for January 9 and 10. The winners of those games will play in the College Football Playoff National Championship on January 20, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.
The first round will feature the fifth highest ranked conference champion and seven at large bids seeded based on their CFP ranking at the end of the regular season. The winners advance to face the four highest ranked conference champions in the quarterfinals.
Playoff Schedule
All times are Eastern Time • Schedule source[4]
Round Date / Time / Matchup / Bowl game / Location / TV
First round
December 20
8:00 p.m. — Campus site to be determined ABC/ESPN
December 21
12:00 p.m. Campus site to be determined TNT
4:00 p.m. Campus site to be determined
8:00 p.m. Campus site to be determined ABC/ESPN
Quarterfinals
December 31
7:30 p.m. Fiesta Bowl State Farm Stadium • Glendale, Arizona ESPN
January 1
1:00 p.m. Peach Bowl Mercedes-Benz Stadium • Atlanta, Georgia
5:00 p.m. Rose Bowl Rose Bowl • Pasadena, California
8:45 p.m. Sugar Bowl Caesars Superdome • New Orleans, Louisiana
Semifinals
January 9 – 7:30 p.m.
Orange Bowl Hard Rock Stadium • Miami Gardens, Florida
January 10 – 7:30 p.m.
Cotton Bowl Classic AT&T Stadium • Arlington, Texas
