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The College Football Playoff announced the dates, schedules and times for the 2025-26 CFP starting with the quarterfinals through national title game.

New dates, new times, and a New Year's Day triple header highlight the 2025-26 CFP schedule.

The Cotton Bowl, which is the first game of the quarterfinals, will take place at AT&T Stadium at 6:30 on New Year’s Eve.

Ohio State offensive coordinator Chip Kelly, left, celebrates with quarterback Will Howard (18) after the quarterfinals of the Rose Bowl College Football Playoff against Oregon, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025, in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong) AP

Here are the game dates and kickoff times for the 2025-26 College Football Playoff for the quarterfinals, semifinals, and the title game.

The NFL used one offseason event to set the date for another. The league will announce the 2025 season schedule on Wednesday, May 14, at 8 p.m. ET, it shared during the NFL Draft in Green Bay, Wis., on Thursday. The schedule release will be broadcast on NFL Network.

ESPN is scheduled to air the College Football Playoff quarterfinals, semifinals and national title game. The Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl start times are all moving up ahead of their traditional start times. "This New Year's Day schedule ...

This year’s CFP Semifinals include the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl on Thursday, Jan. 8, followed by the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl the next night. The national championship is scheduled for Monday, Jan. 19, at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.

ESPN will also broadcast both CFP semifinals and the 2026 CFP national championship, scheduled for Monday, Jan. 19, at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. The title game returns to Miami for the first time since 2021 and marks the second straight year the championship is being held in a repeat host city, following Atlanta’s turn in both 2018 and 2025.

The College Football Playoff and ESPN announced dates, kick times and broadcast information for the Playoff Quarterfinals, Playoff Semifinals and the national championship game for the 2025-26 season.

The College Football Playoff has announced the schedule, kickoff times, and TV designations for the 2025-26 season.

With the NFL set to play a regular-season game in Australia for the first time ever next year, it looks like the league wants to make sure that game takes center stage on the NFL schedule. During a Friday interview on "The Pat McAfee Show," NFL commissioner Roger Goodell revealed that the league is planning to "start" the season in Australia.

The NFL Schedule 2025 release has been set for Wednesday, May 14 at 8:00pm ET, the league has announced.

The College Football Playoff will look slightly different during the 2025-26 season—and one of the most iconic traditions in college football is getting a facel

Straying from the traditional 2 p.m. kickoff time, the Rose Bowl game will instead begin an hour earlier so all three New Year's Day College Football Playoff quarterfinal games are placed "in an ideal window,

ESPN and the College Football Playoff announced that the three quarterfinal games on New Year’s Day will begin earlier than they did a season ago. The Orange Bowl will kick off at Noon ET, the Rose Bowl will begin at 4 p.m. ET and the Sugar Bowl will begin at 8 p.m. ET.

The quarterfinals for next year's College Football Playoff will kick off with the Cotton Bowl on Dec. 31. The CFP announced the full schedule for the final three rounds. Hard Rock Stadium in Miami will host the title game on Jan. 19. The biggest news from Tuesday is that the Rose Bowl got moved up one hour from its usual start time of 5 p.m. ET.