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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 scheduleWednesday, 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
TV channels: ABCÂ | 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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