The College Football Playoff is here. The 12-team bracket was announced on Sunday, December 8th. The official 12-team College Football Playoff field and final top-25 rankings were announced on December 8. The first round continues with three games on Saturday, December 21st.
Oregon is No. 1, and Georgia, Boise State and Arizona State also receive byes. Below you will find the bracket, final seedings and full playoff schedule.
2024-25 College Football Playoff Series
This table uses the committee’s final top 25 rankings as of Sunday, December 8th. It is important to note that the top 25 rankings do not always correspond to the seedings in the playoffs, as the top four ranked conference champions receive the top four seeds and byes, regardless of where those four teams are in the top Rank 25. The fifth-ranked conference champion is also automatically included, although that team does not receive a bye.
College football playoff schedule, results
Always east
First round
Friday, December 20th
Saturday December 21st
Quarterfinals
Tuesday, December 31st
Wednesday, January 1st
Semifinals
Thursday, January 9th
- TBD vs. TBD (Orange Bowl) | 7:30 p.m. | ESPN
Friday, January 10th
- TBD vs TBD (Cotton Bowl) | 7:30 p.m. | ESPN
National Championship
- TBD vs. TBD (Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia) | 7:30 p.m. | ESPN
College Football Playoff Rankings, Seeds
You can see how these numbers – the seed and the CFP rankings – differ below. The four teams with byes are in bold.
Here are the final CFP Top 25 rankings, with the teams in the CFP also receiving their seeds at the end.
- Oregon – top-ranked conference champion (Big Ten) and No. 1 seed
- Georgia — second highest conference champion (SEC) and seed No. 2
- Texas – Overall selection (SEC second team), No. 5 seed
- Penn State – Overall selection (Big Ten second team), No. 6 seed
- Notre Dame – Overall pick (independent), seed No. 7
- Ohio State – Overall selection (Big Ten third team), No. 8 seed
- Tennessee – Overall selection (SEC third team), No. 9 seed
- Indiana – Overall selection (fourth team in the Big Ten), No. 10 seed
- Boise State – Third highest conference champion (Mountain West) and seed No. 3
- SMU – At-large pick (from ACC), seed No. 11
- Alabama – first team from the CFP
- Arizona State – fourth highest conference champion (Big 12) and seed No. 4
- Miami (Florida) – second team from the CFP
- Ole Miss – third team from the CFP
- South Carolina – fourth team from the CFP
- Clemson – fifth highest ranked conference champion (ACC) and No. 12 seed
- BYU – fifth team from the CFP
- Iowa State – sixth team from the CFP
- Missouri – seventh team from the CFP
- Illinois – eighth team from the CFP
- Syracuse – ninth team from the CFP
- Army – 10th Team from the CFP
- Colorado – 11th team from the CFP
- UNLV – 12th team from the CFP
- Memphis – 13th team from the CFP
Boise State, which won the Mountain West Conference championship and only lost to top-ranked Oregon, is the third-ranked conference champion and thus received a bye to the quarterfinals despite finishing ninth. Even though Arizona State is only ranked #1. 12, the Sun Devils are the fourth-seeded conference champion — ahead of ACC champion Clemson (No. 16) — and have secured the No. 4 seed and the final bye in the first round.
Once the official starting lineup is announced on Sunday, December 8th, there will be no further seeding.
The four quarterfinal games will not be played on campus. Instead, those four games — scheduled for Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 — will be played in the Fiesta Bowl, Rose Bowl, Peach Bowl and Sugar Bowl. The four highest-ranked conference champions will be assigned one of these bowls, taking into account historical bowl relationships and seeding.
The four quarterfinal winners will then meet in the semifinals on January 9th and 10th in either the Orange Bowl or the Cotton Bowl. If the seedings apply, that means (1) would face (4) and (2) would play (3). The two semifinal winners will then play for the national championship on January 20th at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
