College football bowl games, broadened playoff dates and times
It’s never ever too early to expect the most fantastic time of the year for college football fans: bowl season.And this year, there’s more to get delighted about than ever with the broadened 12-team College Football Playoff.In addition to the CFP, there will be 36 championship game in
all.(The date and time for the Vacation Bowl will be announced later on.)Here’s a take a look at this season’s games (perpetuity ET ). College Football Playoff schedule Friday, Dec. 20 CFP first-round game School site 8 p.m., ABC/ESPN Saturday Dec. 21 CFP first-round game School website Midday, TNT CFP first-round game
Campus site
4 p.m., TNT CFP first-round game School site 8
p.m., ABC/ESPN Tuesday
, Dec. 31 CFP Quarterfinal at the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl State Farm Arena(Glendale, Arizona
)7:30 p.m., ESPN Wednesday, Jan. 1 CFP Quarterfinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Mercedes-Benz Stadium(Atlanta)1 p.m., ESPN CFP Quarterfinal at the Rose Bowl Game Presented by Prudential Rose Bowl (Pasadena,
California )5 p.m.
, ESPN CFP Quarterfinal at the Allstate Sugar Bowl
Caesars Superdome (New Orleans) 8:45 p.m., ESPN
Thursday, Jan. 9 CFP Semifinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl Hard Rock Arena (Miami Gardens, Florida)
7:30 p.m., ESPN Friday, Jan. 10 CFP Semifinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic AT&T Arena(Arlington,
Texas )7:30 p.m.
, ESPN Monday
, Jan. 20 CFP Championship Game Mercedes-Benz Arena(Atlanta) 7:30 p.m., ESPN Total championship game schedule Saturday, Dec.
14 Cricket Event
Bowl Mercedes-Benz Arena(
Atlanta)Midday, ABC Camellia Bowl Cramton Bowl( Montgomery
, Alabama )9 p.m., ESPN Tuesday
, Dec. 17
Boca Raton Bowl
FAU Arena (Boca Raton, Florida
)5:30 p.m., ESPN Scooter’s Coffee Frisco Bowl Toyota Stadium(
Frisco, Texas)9 p.m., ESPN Wednesday, Dec. 18 LA Bowl
SoFi Stadium (Inglewood, California) 9 p.m., ESPN
R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl
Caesars Superdome(New Orleans)
7 p.m., ESPN2 Friday, Dec. 20
StaffDNA Remedy Bowl Outdoor Camping World Arena(Orlando, Florida) Midday, ESPN
Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl Raymond James Arena (Tampa, Florida)3:30 p.m., ESPN Monday, Dec. 23
Myrtle Beach Bowl
Brooks Stadium (Conway, South Carolina)11 a.m., ESPN Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Albertsons Arena(Boise, Idaho)2:30 p.m., ESPN Tuesday, Dec.
24 Hawai’i Bowl Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex (Honolulu)
8 p.m., ESPN
Thursday, Dec. 26 Detroit Bowl Ford Field (Detroit)
2 p.m., ESPN
Guaranteed Rate Bowl Chase Field(Phoenix
)5:30 p.m., ESPN 68 Ventures Bowl Hancock Whitney Stadium(Mobile, Alabama)
9 p.m., ESPN Friday,
Dec. 27 Birmingham Bowl Protective Arena(
Birmingham, Alabama)Noon or 3:30 p.m., ESPN Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl Amon G. Carter Stadium(
Fort Worth, Texas)
Twelve noon or 3:30 p.m., ESPN AutoZone Liberty Bowl Simmons Bank Liberty Arena(Memphis, Tennessee)7 p.m., ESPN SRS Circulation Las Vegas Bowl Allegiant Arena(Las Vegas)
10:30 p.m., ESPN
Saturday, Dec. 28 Wasabi Fenway Bowl
Fenway Park (Boston)
11 a.m., ESPN
Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe
Bowl Yankee Stadium (Bronx, New York)
Midday, ABC Isleta New Mexico Bowl University Arena(Albuquerque, New Mexico)
2:15 p.m., ESPN
Pop-Tarts Bowl Camping
World Arena( Orlando, Florida)
3:30 p.m., ABC
Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl
presented by Gin & Juice by Dre and Snoop Arizona Arena
(Tucson, Arizona)4:30 p.m., CW Network Go Bowling Military Bowl Navy-Marine Corps
Memorial Stadium
(Annapolis, Maryland)5:45 p.m., ESPN Valero Alamo Bowl Alamodome(San Antonio) 7:30 p.m.,
ABC Glow Technologies Independence Bowl Independence Arena (Shreveport, Louisiana)9:15 p.m., ESPN Monday, Dec. 30 Transperfect Music City Bowl
Nissan Arena(Nashville, Tennessee) 2:30 p.m., ESPN Tuesday, Dec.
31 ReliaQuest Bowl
Raymond James Stadium(Tampa, Florida
)Twelve Noon, ESPN Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl
Sun Bowl Arena (El Paso, Texas)
2 p.m., CBS Cheez-It Citrus Bowl Outdoor Camping World Arena(Orlando, Florida)3 p.m.
, ABC Texas Bowl NRG Stadium(Houston)
3:30 p.m., ESPN
Thursday, Jan. 2 TaxSlayer Gator Bowl
EverBank Stadium (Jacksonville, Florida)
7:30 p.m. ESPN Friday, Jan. 3 SERVPRO First Responder Bowl Gerald J. Ford Stadium (Dallas)4
p.m., ESPN Duke’s Mayo
Bowl Bank of America Stadium(Charlotte, North
Carolina )7:30 p.m., ESPN Saturday, Jan. 4 Bahamas Bowl Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium(Nassau, Bahamas)11 a.m., ESPN2