{"id":942314,"date":"2026-07-11T03:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/942314\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T03:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:06:16","slug":"mercedes-benz-stadium-to-host-cfp-semifinal-in-2028-2031","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/942314\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz Stadium to host CFP semifinal in 2028, 2031"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) \u2014 The Peach Bowl will be a College Football Playoff semifinal in 2028 and 2031, the CFP announced Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The game will be held Jan. 12, 2029. It will be the fifth time the Peach Bowl is a CFP semifinal; It was previously a semifinal in the 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2025 seasons. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It will be a quarterfinal in 2029 and 2030. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mercedes-Benz Stadium has also hosted the national championship twice, in 2018 and 2025. The earliest it could host again is 2031. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WANF. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) \u2014 The Peach Bowl will be a College Football Playoff semifinal in 2028&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6321,6320,6318,1627,332,124843,7,49,48,7606,124847,124846,75899,104979,124845,124844,7422],"class_list":["post-942314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-anf","tag-atlanta-news","tag-atlanta-news-first","tag-cfp","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-college-football-playoff-bowls","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-peach-bowl","tag-peach-bowl-2027","tag-peach-bowl-2028","tag-peach-bowl-cfp","tag-peach-bowl-dates","tag-peach-bowl-schedule","tag-peach-bowl-venue","tag-wanf"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116899137676944286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}