The New Year’s Day football 2025 schedule features three games, and all three are College Football Playoff Quarterfinal contests.
New Year’s Day bowl game action kicks off on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025, at 1:00pm ET with the 5th-seed Texas Longhorns of the SEC taking on the 4th-seed Arizona State Sun Devils of the Big 12 in the College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl in Atlanta, Ga. The game will be televised by ESPN.
Next is the “Grandaddy of Them All”, the College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the Rose Bowl Game. The 8th-seed Ohio State Buckeyes of the Big Ten will face the top-seed Oregon Ducks, also of the Big Ten, in that matchup and it will be televised by ESPN at 5:00pm ET.
New Year’s Day action concludes with the College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the Allstate Sugar Bowl at 8:45pm ET on ESPN. The 2nd-seed Georgia Bulldogs of the SEC play the 7th-seed Notre Dame Fighting Irish in that contest at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, La.
Update (Jan. 1, 2025; 3:45pm ET): The Sugar Bowl has been postponed following a terror attack in New Orleans (more info).
Winners of the Sugar Bowl and Fiesta Bowl will meet in the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. The following day, the Rose and Peach winners will face off in the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025.
The 2024 college football season comes to a conclusion with the College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. The two semifinal game winners will square off at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Ga., and the contest will be televised by ESPN at 7:30pm ET (Buy Tickets).
New Year’s Day Football: 2025 Schedule
Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025
CFP Quarterfinal – Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl
(5) Texas vs. (4) Arizona State
1:00pm ET | ESPN
Mercedes-Benz Stadium – Atlanta, GA
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CFP Quarterfinal – Rose Bowl Game
(8) Ohio State vs. (1) Oregon
5:00pm ET | ESPN
Rose Bowl Stadium – Pasadena, CA
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Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025
CFP Quarterfinal – Allstate Sugar Bowl
(7) Notre Dame vs. (2) Georgia
Time/TV TBD
Caesars Superdome – New Orleans, LA
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Just like the NFL, appears that college football is going pay-per-view via streaming channels.
Too bad, I used to enjoy watching a game or two on the weekends… definitely NOT going to pay a monthly fee just to watch an occasional game that was free (OTA) not that long ago.
Guess I’ll make do watching soccer… plenty of free channels.
All of these games are on ESPN.
Free OTA do not want Sports to intrude it’s weekday TV schedule line up. Happy you are a soccer fan Don.
Happy New Year and Happy 2025!!!🎆
God bless & you too Terrence always enjoy hearing from you.
More Sports money grabs. If gamblers and idiots did not pay for this trash it would Still be on major networks. New Year’s Day used to be an enjoyable football day. Is Jerry Jones running the NCAA too?
Give major networks a break ESPN & TNT are excellent with CFP.
It figures we have to pay to view these games. I like football but i dont like the greedy people who force mainly men to either pay for rent, food and other necessities of life or pay to watch football. Less presenrs under the tree cuz daddy has to pay hundreds of dollars every year cuz NFL got real greedy. If men would boycott and refuse to pay to watch sports, they would stop making us pay. ?z?
Sharon ESPN is excellent with CFP please give Networks a break.
NFL did a fantastic job with Netflix doing Christmas Day game on a Holiday where NBA still rules.
Sugar Bowl game is postponed until tomorrow.