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The CFP Board of Managers voted in 2023 to expand the playoff to twelve teams beginning in 2024, an arrangement that will last at least through the end of the 2025 season. After 2025, the current contract between all major entities expires and a new contract will be drawn up, with indications that additional expansion to a 14-team playoff or ...
Since 2025, the game is held on the third Monday of January and serves as the final game of the College Football Playoff (CFP), a bracket tournament between the top five ranked conference champions, and the top 7 ranked at-large teams in the country that are selected by a playoff committee, which was established as a successor to the Bowl ...
The following is a list of College Football Playoff games. For the 2014–15 through 2023–24 seasons, the semi-finals rotate between the Rose, Sugar, Cotton, Orange, Fiesta, and Peach Bowls, with each hosting a semi-final every third year. A standalone National Championship game is held roughly a week later. [1]
It was the final game of the 2024–25 College Football Playoff (CFP), the first national championship under the 12-team CFP format, and, aside from any all-star games afterward, the culminating game of the 2024–25 bowl season. The game began at 7:30 p.m. EST and was televised nationally by ESPN.
Cincinnati's selection made them the first team from any of the Group of Five conferences to appear in the College Football Playoff. The playoff bracket's semifinal games were held at the Cotton Bowl Classic and the Orange Bowl on New Year's Eve, part of the season's slate of bowl games. The Cotton Bowl semifinal saw Alabama defeat Cincinnati ...
The championship game was the tenth in College Football Playoff history [23] and the final championship to be played as part of the four-team playoff format; in September 2022, the CFP board of managers voted to expand the tournament from four teams to twelve, effective with the 2024–25 edition. [24]
The 2019–20 CFP selection committee was chaired by Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens.Its other members were Iowa athletic director Gary Barta, former Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer, former The Arizona Republic reporter Paola Boivin, Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione, former head coach Ken Hatfield, Robert Morris University president Christopher B. Howard, former NFL player ...
Until 2024, four teams were seeded by a 13–member selection committee rather than by existing polls or mathematical rankings. [43] The two semifinal games were rotated among the New Year's Six bowl games, and the final was played a week later. Beginning in 2024, the playoff field was expanded to 12 teams.