2025-26 bowl season: College Football Playoff, full postseason schedule released

The complete 44-game slate for the 2025-26 college football postseason was unveiled Thursday, including 33 games airing on either ABC or ESPN. The full 2025-26 postseason slate of games begin Dec. 13 and end with the College Football Playoff National Championship on Jan. 19.

This postseason list doesn’t include the first-round College Football Playoff games that will be played Dec. 19-20 on the campuses of the higher seeded teams since those have yet to be determined.

Check out the full slate below:

College Football Playoff

Dec. 31
Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic CFP quarterfinal (Arlington, Texas — 7:30 pm ET, ESPN)

Jan. 1
Capital One Orange Bowl CFP quarterfinal (Miami Gardens, Fla. — 12 pm ET, ESPN
Rose Bowl CFP quarterfinal (Pasadena, Calif. — 4 pm ET, ESPN)
Allstate Sugar Bowl CFP quarterfinal (New Orleans, La. — 8 pm ET, ESPN)

Jan. 8
Vrbo Fiesta Bowl CFP semifinal (Glendale, Ariz. — 7:30 pm ET, ESPN)

Jan. 9
Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl CFP semifinal (Atlanta, Ga. — 7:30 pm ET, ESPN)

Jan. 19
College Football Playoff National Championship (Miami Gardens, Fla. — 7:30 pm ET, ESPN)

Non-CFP Bowls

Dec. 13
Cricket Celebration Bowl (Atlanta, Ga. — 12 pm ET, ABC)
LA Bowl (Inglewood, Calif. — 9 pm ET, ESPN)

Dec. 16
IS4S Salute to Veterans Bowl (Montgomery, Ala. — 9 pm ET, ESPN)

Dec. 17
StaffDNA Cure Bowl (Orlando, Fla. — 5 pm ET, ESPN)
68 Ventures Bowl (Mobile, Ala. — 8:30 pm ET, ESPN)

Dec. 19
Myrtle Beach Bowl (Conway, SC — 12 pm ET, ESPN)
Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl (Tampa, Fla. — 3:30 pm ET, ESPN)

Dec. 22
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl (Boise, Id. — 2 pm ET, ESPN)

Dec. 23
Boca Raton Bowl (Boca Raton, Fla. — 2 pm ET, ESPN)
New Orleans Bowl (New Orleans, La. — 5:30 pm ET, ESPN)
Scooter’s Coffee Frisco Bowl (Frisco, Texas — 9 pm ET, ESPN)

Dec. 24
Sheraton Hawai’i Bowl (Honolulu, Hawai’i — 8 or 9 pm ET, ESPN)

Dec. 26
GameAbove Sports Bowl (Detroit, Mich. — 1 pm ET, ESPN)
Rate Bowl (Phoenix, Ariz. — 4:30 pm ET, ESPN)
SERVPRO First Responder Bowl (Dallas, Texas — 8 pm ET, ESPN)

Dec. 27
Go Bowling Military Bowl (Annapolis, Md. — 11 am ET, ESPN)
Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl (Bronx, N.Y. — 12 pm ET, ABC)
Wasabi Fenway Bowl (Boston, Mass. — 2:15 pm ET, ESPN)
Pop-Tarts Bowl (Orlando, Fla. — 3:30 pm ET, ABC)
Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl (Tuscon, Ariz. — 4:30 pm ET, CW Network)
Isleta New Mexico Bowl (Albuquerque, N.M. — 5:45 pm ET, ESPN)
TaxSlayer Gator Bowl (Jacksonville, Fla. — 7:30 pm ET, ABC)
Kinder’s Texas Bowl (Houston, Texas — 9:15 pm ET, ESPN)

Dec. 29
Birmingham Bowl (Birmingham, Ala. — 2 pm ET, ESPN)

Dec. 30
Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl (Shreveport, La. — 2 pm ET, ESPN)
Music City Bowl (Nashville, Tenn. — 5:30 pm ET, ESPN)
Valero Alamo Bowl (San Antonio, Texas — 9 pm ET, ESPN)

Dec. 31
ReliaQuest Bowl (Tampa, Fla. — 12 pm ET, ESPN)
Tony The Tigers Sun Bowl (El Paso, Texas — 2 pm ET, CBS)
Cheez-It Citrus Bowl (Orlando, Fla. — 3 pm ET, ABC)
SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl (Las Vegas, Nev. — 3:30 pm ET, ESPN)

Jan. 2
Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl (Fort Worth, Texas — 1 pm ET, ESPN)
AutoZone Liberty Bowl (Memphis, Tenn. — 4:30 pm ET, ESPN)
Duke’s Mayo Bowl (Charlotte, N.C. — 8 pm ET, ESPN)

TBD
DirectTV Holiday Bowl (TBD, TBD, FOX)

All-Star Bowls

Jan. 27
East-West Shrine Bowl (Frisco, Texas — 7 pm ET, TBD)

Jan. 31
Reese’s Senior Bowl (Mobile, Ala. — 2:30 pm ET, NFL Network)