The College Football Playoff brackets are out. Official 12-team College Football Playoff field and final top 25 rankings It was announced on December 8th.. The quarterfinals will continue on Wednesday, January 1, 2025.
Oregon State is the No. 1 seed, while Georgia, Boise State and Arizona also received byes. Below is the bracket, final seeding, and full playoff schedule.
2024-25 College Football Playoff Brackets
This bracket is Committee final top 25 rankings Sunday, December 8. It's important to keep in mind that top 25 rankings don't always correspond to playoff seeds. Because even if the top four teams are ranked in the top 25, the top four conference champions receive a top four seed and a bye. The highest-ranked conference champion also automatically participates, but that team does not bye.
College Football Playoff Schedule, Scores
eastern always
quarterfinal
Wednesday, January 1
Tuesday, December 31st
semifinal
Thursday, January 9
- TBD vs TBD (Orange Ball) | 7:30 PM | ESPN
Friday, January 10th
- TBD vs TBD (noodle bowl) | 7:30 PM | ESPN
National Championship
Monday, January 20th
- TBD vs. TBD (Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, GA) | 7:30 PM | ESPN
first round
Friday, December 20th
Saturday, December 21st
College Football Playoff Standings, Seeds
Below you can see how these numbers (seeds and CFP rankings) compare. The four teams that received byes are in bold.
Here are the final CFP Top 25 rankings: CFP teams will also have their seeds included at the end.
- oregon — Highest-ranked conference champion (Big Ten) and No. 1 seed.
- Georgia — SEC (Conference Champion) 2nd place and 2nd seeded
- Texas — At-large pick (Second team in SEC), seeded No. 5.
- Penn State — At-large pick (second team in the Big Ten), No. 6 seed.
- Notre Dame — At-large pick (independent), No. 7 seed.
- Ohio State — At-large pick (third team in the Big Ten), seeded No. 8.
- Tennessee — At-large pick (3rd team in SEC), seeded 9
- Indiana — At-large pick (fourth team in Big Ten), seeded No. 10
- boise state — Third-highest ranked conference champion (Mountain West) and seeded No. 3
- SMU — At-large pick (in the ACC), No. 11 seed.
- Alabama — CFP's first team
- Arizona State — 4th highest ranked conference champion (Big 12) and 4th seed
- Miami, Fla. — CFP's second team
- Ole Miss — CFP's third team
- South Carolina — CFP's fourth team
- Clemson — No. 5 ACC (conference champion), No. 12 seed.
- BYU — CFP's fifth team
- Iowa State — CFP's sixth team
- Missouri — CFP's seventh team
- Illinois — CFP's eighth team
- Syracuse — CFP's ninth team
- Army – CFP's 10th team
- Colorado — CFP's 11th team
- UNLV — CFP's 12th team
- Memphis — CFP's 13th team
Boise State, which won the Mountain West Conference Championship and lost only to No. 1 Oregon, failed to advance to the quarterfinals despite finishing 3rd and 9th as the conference champion. At 12, the Sun Devils are the fourth-highest ranked conference champion behind ACC champion Clemson (No. 16) and earned the No. 4 seed and final first-round bye.
Once the seed has been planted, there is no need to replant it. The official bracket will be released on Sunday, December 8th..
The four quarterfinals will not be played on campus. Instead, these four games scheduled for December 31 and January 1 will be played in the Fiesta Bowl, Rose Bowl, Peach Bowl, and Sugar Bowl. The four highest-ranking conference champions will be allocated one of these bowls, taking into account historical bowl relationships and seeding.
The four quarterfinal winners will meet in the semifinals at either the Orange Bowl or Cotton Bowl on Jan. 9 and Jan. 10. If the seed holds, this means that (1) meets (4) and (2) meets (3). The two semifinal winners will play for the national championship Jan. 20 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
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College Football Playoff Bracket: Schedule, Standings, Scores
