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With Christmas come and gone, we’re deep into college football bowl season as the New Year approaches.
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Full slates of bowl games are on tap Friday and Saturday, including the first matchup of ranked teams outside the College Football Playoff as No. 12 BYU meets No. 22 Georgia Tech in the Pop-Tarts Bowl.
Three other games featuring ranked teams also are on the docket, including an ACC-SEC matchup between No. 19 Virginia and Missouri in the Gator Bowl, No. 21 Houston facing an LSU team in flux in the Texas Bowl, and No. 25 North Texas closing out a strong season against San Diego State in the New Mexico Bowl.
Here’s a full rundown of the upcoming CFP quarterfinals and this weekend’s bowl games.
Is there a College Football Playoff game today?
There are no CFP games scheduled for this weekend. Due to the way the calendar fell, traditional bowl games get Friday and Saturday to themselves while we wait until New Year’s Eve for the CFP quarterfinals to begin. The schedule for those games is below, followed by all of the other college games on tap this weekend.
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CFP quarterfinals schedule
Wednesday, Dec. 31
|
Game |
Matchup |
Time (ET) |
TV/Live stream |
|---|---|---|---|
|
CFP Quarterfinal (Cotton Bowl) |
No. 2 Ohio State vs. No. 10 Miami (Fla.) |
7:30 p.m. |
Thursday, Jan. 1
|
Game |
Matchup |
Time (ET) |
TV/Live stream |
|---|---|---|---|
|
CFP Quarterfinal (Orange Bowl) |
No. 4 Texas Tech vs. No. 5 Oregon |
Noon |
|
|
CFP Quarterfinal (Rose Bowl) |
No. 1 Indiana vs. No. 9 Alabama |
4 p.m. |
ESPN, ESPN app, Fubo |
|
CFP Quarterfinal (Sugar Bowl) |
No. 3 Georgia vs. No. 6 Ole Miss |
8 p.m. |
ESPN, ESPN app, Fubo |
College football games on TV today
The full slate of post-Christmas bowl games is listed below, with football on TV most of the day Friday and Saturday.
Friday, Dec. 26
|
Bowl |
Matchup |
Time (ET) |
TV/Live stream |
|---|---|---|---|
|
GameAbove Sports Bowl |
Northwestern vs. Central Michigan |
1 p.m. |
|
|
Rate Bowl |
Minnesota vs. New Mexico |
4:30 p.m. |
ESPN, Fubo, ESPN app |
|
First Responder Bowl |
UTSA vs. Florida International |
8 p.m. |
ESPN, Fubo, ESPN app |
Saturday, Dec. 27
|
Bowl |
Matchup |
Time (ET) |
TV/Live stream |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Military Bowl |
East Carolina vs. Pitt |
11 a.m. |
|
|
Pinstripe Bowl |
Clemson vs. Penn State |
Noon |
ABC, Fubo, ESPN app |
|
Fenway Bowl |
Army vs. UConn |
2:15 p.m. |
ESPN, Fubo, ESPN app |
|
Pop-Tarts Bowl |
BYU vs. Georgia Tech |
3:30 p.m. |
ABC, Fubo, ESPN app |
|
Arizona Bowl |
Fresno State vs. Miami (Ohio) |
4:30 p.m. |
The CW Network, DIRECTV |
|
New Mexico Bowl |
San Diego State vs. North Texas |
5:45 p.m. |
ESPN, Fubo, ESPN app |
|
Gator Bowl |
Missouri vs. Virginia |
7:30 p.m. |
ABC, Fubo, ESPN app |
|
Texas Bowl |
Houston vs. LSU |
9:15 p.m. |
ESPN, Fubo, ESPN app |
How to watch college football games today: TV channels, live streams
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TV channels: ABC | ESPN | The CW Network
This weekend’s college football games will be spread across ABC, ESPN and The CW. Cord-cutters can stream games on the ESPN app, Fubo and DIRECTV throughout the day.
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