The schedule — websites and dates — for the 2024 and 2025 CFP have been launched Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information
The School Soccer Playoff is increasing from 4 groups to 12 groups beginning in 2024 and the dates and websites of the playoff video games have now been finalized by means of the 2024 and ’25 seasons.
Launched by the Cotton Bowl on Tuesday, right here’s what the CFP will appear to be within the first two years of enlargement.
2024 CFP dates and websites
First spherical (residence websites)
Dec. 20, 2024 — One sport.
Dec. 21, 2024 — Three video games.
Quarterfinals
Dec. 31, 2024 — Fiesta Bowl.
Jan. 1, 2025 — Peach Bowl, Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl.
Semifinals
Jan. 9, 2025 — Orange Bowl.
Jan. 10, 2025 — Cotton Bowl.
Championship
Jan. 20, 2025 — Peach Bowl
2025 CFP dates and websites
First spherical (residence websites)
Dec. 19, 2025 — One sport.
Dec. 20, 2025 — Three video games.
Quarterfinals
Dec. 31, 2025 — Cotton Bowl.
Jan. 1, 2026 — Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl.
Semifinals
Jan. 8, 2026 — Fiesta Bowl.
Jan. 9, 2026 — Peach Bowl.
Championship
Jan. 19, 2026 — Orange Bowl.
In line with Sports activities Illustrated’s Ross Dellenger, the CFP will go head-to-head with the NFL because of enlargement, one thing convention commissioners had hoped to keep away from.
“The NFL’s schedule has been a big speaking level for commissioners,” Dellenger writes. “The professional league’s schedule continues to encroach into conventional school soccer territory, because the NFL expanded its personal playoff to create an extra wild-card sport and began to dominate Thursday nights with their streaming package deal on Amazon. Its newest transfer got here within the fall, when the NFL introduced it could start taking part in video games on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving that has for years belonged to school soccer.
“All of it had school soccer executives stewing as they tried to schedule eight further video games in an expanded playoff whereas attempting to keep away from going head-to-head with America’s No. 1 sport.”