January 2024 and 2025 has something special in store for you … at least if you enjoy watching football on television. And based on the soaring ratings for both the NFL and NCAA, you do.
There will be 12-teams with four rounds of competition. Due to preexisting scheduling challenges,, pushing the action deep into January . This has generally been a time on the calendar owned solely by the NFL playoffs.
Namely, college football will stage its two semifinals on the Thursday and Friday evenings prior to the NFL’s Wild Card Weekend, which sees six games played over three days. The result:Saturday January 11: three NFL playoffs gamesThat’s five consecutive days/nights of do-or-die playoff action, featuring eight games at two different levels of the sport.It repeats in 2026, except the college semis begin on Thursday, January 8.
The college quarterfinal round will then proceed with one game on New Year’s Eve and three on New Year’s Day.None of this is ideal, but this is the reality for college football. They wasted so many years fighting against the inevitable expansion of the playoff that the NFL gobbled up prime dates.
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