College Football Playoff
HOUSTON, TX (WSAU) — The confetti has barely been cleared out of the NRG Stadium playing surface, but the College Football Playoff committee is already looking ahead to next year’s expanded tournament.
The 12-team event will kick off on Friday, December 20th with one of four first-round games. Kickoff time will be set later, but the committee says the game will be played in the “evening.” The three other first-round games will be played the next day, Saturday, December 21st beginning with an “early afternoon” kickoff and ending with an evening game.
Those four games will be hosted on campus sites by the teams seeded 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th in the tournament. the 12th, 11th, 10th, and 9th seeds will be the road teams, respectively.
The top four seeds will enter the quarterfinal rounds which will begin on New Year’s Eve Tuesday, December 31st with the Verbo Fiesta Bowl. Then on New Year’s Day Wednesday, January 1st, 2025, the remaining three quarters will kick off with the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl in Atlanta followed by the Rose Bowl Game and Allstate Sugar Bowl in New Orleans as the nightcap.
Semifinals will be hosted at the Capital One Orange Bowl on the night of Thursday, January 9th, 2025 and the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic on Friday, January 10th, 2025. The National Championship game will be held at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on January 20th, 2025.
The expanded 12-team field will include the five highest-rated Conference Champions and seven at-large teams as selected by the final CFP Top 25 rankings.
The 2024 regular season will begin in full on the weekend of August 31st. Among the games that weekend will be Wisconsin hosting Western Michigan at Camp Randall. The Badgers’ schedule also includes home dates against Alabama, Penn State, and B1G newcomer Oregon. Wisconsin will travel to face Washington, Nebraska, and USC in B1G play.
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