The schedules for the 2024-25 College Football Playoff and other college bowl games have been announced.
The four first-round College Football Playoff games will be on Friday, December 20, and Saturday, December 21. ABC and ESPN will televise the Friday and Saturday night games, which will begin at 7 pm (CT). TNT will televise the Saturday afternoon games at 11 am (CT) and 3 pm (CT).
Participants in the four first-round games, which will be played on college campuses, will be announced on December 8.
In the expanded College Football Playoff, the top four conference champions will receive first-round byes.
Quarterfinal games will begin on December 31, with the Fiesta Bowl at 6:30 pm (CT). New Year's Day will kick off with the Peach Bowl at noon (CT), followed by the Rose Bowlat 4 pm (CT) and the Sugar Bowl at 7:45 pm (CT).
The two semifinals games will be played in the Orange Bowl, on January 9, and the Cotton Bowl, on January 10. Both games will have 6:30 pm start times.
The championship game will be played on January 20, in Atlanta.
Here is the schedule for the other 2024-25 college football bowl games (the date and time for the Holiday Bowl will be announced later):
*All times are CST
Saturday, Dec. 14
Cricket Celebration Bowl
Mercedes-Benz Stadium (Atlanta)
11 a.m., ABC
Camellia Bowl
Cramton Bowl (Montgomery, Alabama)
8 p.m., ESPN
Tuesday, Dec. 17
Boca Raton Bowl
FAU Stadium (Boca Raton, Florida)
4:30 p.m., ESPN
Scooter's Coffee Frisco Bowl
Toyota Stadium (Frisco, Texas)
8 p.m., ESPN
Wednesday, Dec. 18
LA Bowl
SoFi Stadium (Inglewood, California)
8 p.m., ESPN
R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl
Caesars Superdome (New Orleans)
6 p.m., ESPN2
Friday, Dec. 20
StaffDNA Cure Bowl
Camping World Stadium (Orlando, Florida)
11 a.m., ESPN
Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl
Raymond James Stadium (Tampa, Florida)
2:30 p.m., ESPN
Monday, Dec. 23
Myrtle Beach Bowl
Brooks Stadium (Conway, South Carolina)
10 a.m., ESPN
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
Albertsons Stadium (Boise, Idaho)
1:30 p.m., ESPN
Tuesday, Dec. 24
Hawai'i Bowl
Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex (Honolulu)
7 p.m., ESPN
Thursday, Dec. 26
Detroit Bowl
Ford Field (Detroit)
1 p.m., ESPN
Guaranteed Rate Bowl
Chase Field (Phoenix)
4:30 p.m., ESPN
68 Ventures Bowl
Hancock Whitney Stadium (Mobile, Alabama)
8 p.m., ESPN
Friday, Dec. 27
Birmingham Bowl
Protective Stadium (Birmingham, Alabama)
11 a.m. or 2:30 p.m., ESPN
Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl
Amon G. Carter Stadium (Fort Worth, Texas)
11 a.m. or 2:30 p.m., ESPN
AutoZone Liberty Bowl
Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium (Memphis, Tennessee)
6 p.m., ESPN
SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl
Allegiant Stadium (Las Vegas)
9:30 p.m., ESPN
Saturday, Dec. 28
Wasabi Fenway Bowl
Fenway Park (Boston)
10 a.m., ESPN
Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl
Yankee Stadium (Bronx, New York)
11 a.m., ABC
Isleta New Mexico Bowl
University Stadium (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
1:15 p.m., ESPN
Pop-Tarts Bowl
Camping World Stadium (Orlando, Florida)
2:30 p.m., ABC
Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl presented by
Gin & Juice by Dre and Snoop
Arizona Stadium (Tucson, Arizona)
3:30 p.m., CW Network
Go Bowling Military Bowl
Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (Annapolis, Maryland)
4:45 p.m., ESPN
Valero Alamo Bowl
Alamodome (San Antonio)
6:30 p.m., ABC
Radiance Technologies Independence
Bowl
Independence Stadium (Shreveport, Louisiana)
8:15 p.m., ESPN
Monday, Dec. 30
Transperfect Music City Bowl
Nissan Stadium (Nashville, Tennessee)
1:30 p.m., ESPN
Tuesday, Dec. 31
ReliaQuest Bowl
Raymond James Stadium (Tampa, Florida)
11 a.m., ESPN
Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl
Sun Bowl Stadium (El Paso, Texas)
1 p.m., CBS
Cheez-It Citrus Bowl
Camping World Stadium (Orlando, Florida)
2 p.m., ABC
Texas Bowl
NRG Stadium (Houston)
2:30 p.m., ESPN
Thursday, Jan. 2
TaxSlayer Gator Bowl
EverBank Stadium (Jacksonville, Florida)
6:30 p.m. ESPN
Friday, Jan. 3
SERVPRO First Responder Bowl
Gerald J. Ford Stadium (Dallas)
3 p.m., ESPN
Duke's Mayo Bowl
Bank of America Stadium (Charlotte, North Carolina)
6:30 p.m., ESPN
Saturday, Jan. 4
Bahamas Bowl
Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium (Nassau, Bahamas)
10 a.m., ESPN2
