CFP verifies first round broadened playoff dates
IRVING, Texas– The inaugural first-round games of a 12-team College Football Playoff will feature one game Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, and three games Dec. 21, 2024, CFP executive director Bill Hancock stated Thursday following the conclusion of CFP spring meetings.The CFP is likewise
zeroing in on validating midweek games for the 2024 quarterfinals, with three games Jan. 1, 2025, and the 4th quarterfinal game either New Year’s Eve or Jan. 2, 2025, to avoid contending against the NFL wild-card weekend.
“We wish to preserve as much prep time between the rounds as we potentially can,” Hancock stated. “I wouldn’t wish to share any details about our discussions with the NFL, but we have a good relationship with them.”
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The College Football Playoff management committee, which is composed of the 10 FBS commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick, satisfied for 2 1/2 days at the Las Colinas Resort to go over a vast array of logistics for carrying out the new format in time for the start of the 2024 season.The first-round
games will be held at either the home field of the higher-seeded team or at another site designated by the higher-seeded institution (No. 12 at No. 5, No. 11 at No. 6, No. 10 at No. 7, and No. 9 at No. 8.).
The CFP’s management committee continued to go over ticket allocations for on-campus games, however Hancock stated that in general, the host school will offer the tickets and the season-ticket holders will have a chance to buy playoff tickets the very same way. Going to groups will likewise have an allocation, but the CFP hasn’t identified the number of or where they will sit in the stadium.
“Our charge is going to be to make what we do fit the very same in Knoxville as it does in Ann Arbor as it carries out in Eugene,” Hancock stated. “It will be a home game in many ways with pageantry, but there will likewise be checking out group pageantry, similar to what occurs in bowl games.”
For the 2024 and 2025 seasons, the 4 quarterfinal games and two playoff semifinal games will be played in bowls on a turning basis. The 2024 quarterfinals will occur in the Fiesta Bowl, Peach Bowl, Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl, while the Cotton Bowl and Orange Bowl will host the semifinals. The 2025 quarterfinals will happen in the Cotton, Orange, Rose and Sugar Bowls, while the Feast and Peach Bowls will host the semifinals.The championship game games will be played Jan. 20, 2025, in Atlanta, and Jan. 19, 2026, in Miami. The CFP’s management committee continued to go over lingering concerns such as the media rights contract, campus hotels for the first-round games, and how the expanded playoff will exist together with December beginning and exams.Monday was spent hearing presentations from each of the New Year’s Six bowls and meeting with ESPN tv executives. Hancock stated there’s no schedule for when they require to have actually everything addressed, however he is confident the details will be done in time.The commissioners also continued to explore the possibility of beginning
the season at Week 0, however there was an agreement that if that change were concurred upon, it wouldn’t be possible up until a minimum of 2026.”There are numerous clashing interests and viewpoints about starting the season a week previously,”Hancock stated.”… however definitely they discussed it. I don’t believe the CFP is the group to make that decision.”