The College Football Playoff field has been narrowed to four teams, with (6) Penn State, (7) Notre Dame, (5) Texas, and (8) Ohio State remaining in the national title hunt. The Nittany Lions defeated (3) Boise State in the first quarterfinal game on New Year's Eve to set up a date with the Fighting Irish in the Orange Bowl on Thursday.

There are 47 total bowl games in the 2024-25 season, including four college football playoff first round games, four quarterfinal games, two semifinals, and the national championship on Monday, January 20.

Only eight teams remain in the College Football Playoff. Here is the full bracket and schedule for the quarterfinals.

The New Year's Day football games 2025 schedule features three contests, and all three are College Football Playoff Quarterfinal matchups.

College football's bowl schedule continues on with three CFP quarterfinal games on New Year's Day. Check out the scores from today's action here:

With a win in the Peach Bowl, the Texas Longhorns become first college football program in history to win every New Year’s Six Bowl games.

That pair, and others like it, became part of notable trend in the 2024-25 bowl season: 21 of the 30 non-Playoff bowls that aired on an ESPN network through Jan. 2 saw year-over-year viewership increases, the majority of them by 20 percent or more.

The 12-team College Football Playoff continues on New Year's Eve when (6) Penn State faces (3) Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl. The expanded format creates a more challenging path to the CFP title game,

Here's the NFL playoff schedule for the first six postseason games of the NFL playoffs, starting with the Los Angeles Chargers at Houston Texans and Pittsburgh Steelers at Baltimore Ravens on Saturday,