2024–25 College Football Playoff | |
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Season | 2024 |
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Championship |
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The 2024–25 College Football Playoff is an upcoming a single-elimination bracket invitational tournament to determine the national champion of the 2024 college football season. [1] [2]
The 2024–25 playoff will be the first to use a twelve-team bracket; the previous 10 iterations of the College Football Playoff contained only four teams. [1] [2] The top five ranked conference champions 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. [2] [3]
First round December 20 or 21 at higher seed Campus Sites | Quarterfinals December 31 (Fiesta) or January 1 (Peach, Rose, Sugar) | Semifinals January 9 (Orange) or January 10 (Cotton) |
Championship January 20 | |||||||||||||||
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Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta | ||||||||||||||||||
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the competition to get in the top four this season didn't allow much room for error. That won't be the case next year with the 12-team playoff field debuting.
An early look ahead at who could make history as the first programs included in a 12-team playoff field
2024–25 College Football Playoff | |
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Season | 2024 |
Semifinals |
|
Championship |
|
The 2024–25 College Football Playoff is an upcoming a single-elimination bracket invitational tournament to determine the national champion of the 2024 college football season. [1] [2]
The 2024–25 playoff will be the first to use a twelve-team bracket; the previous 10 iterations of the College Football Playoff contained only four teams. [1] [2] The top five ranked conference champions 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. [2] [3]
First round December 20 or 21 at higher seed Campus Sites | Quarterfinals December 31 (Fiesta) or January 1 (Peach, Rose, Sugar) | Semifinals January 9 (Orange) or January 10 (Cotton) |
Championship January 20 | |||||||||||||||
1 | ||||||||||||||||||
8 | ||||||||||||||||||
9 | ||||||||||||||||||
4 | ||||||||||||||||||
Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta | ||||||||||||||||||
5 | ||||||||||||||||||
12 | ||||||||||||||||||
2 | ||||||||||||||||||
7 | ||||||||||||||||||
10 | ||||||||||||||||||
3 | ||||||||||||||||||
6 | ||||||||||||||||||
11 | ||||||||||||||||||
the competition to get in the top four this season didn't allow much room for error. That won't be the case next year with the 12-team playoff field debuting.
An early look ahead at who could make history as the first programs included in a 12-team playoff field