College Football Playoff Selection Show Sunday on ESPN

College football fans won’t have the Bowl Championship Series to kick around anymore. The College Football Playoff is all systems go this winter, which should bring more excitement and hopefully less controversy to the crowning of the national champion.

In the College Football Playoff structure, four teams will be selected to play in a semifinal games on New Year’s Day. The semifinals will rotate among the “New Year’s Six” bowl games (Rose, Sugar, Orange, Cotton, Peach and Fiesta) on Dec. 31-Jan. 1, maintaining the games’ traditions while making them significant in the national championship picture. This year, the Rose and Sugar Bowls will be the semifinal games played on Jan. 1. The National Championship game will be on a Monday night every year, with AT&T Stadium in North Texas hosting the first title game on Jan. 12. ESPN has exclusive TV rights to the New Year’s Six bowls and National Championship Game through January 2026.

The polls and computers that dictated the BCS title game are replaced with a 13-member committee of current and former athletic directors, athletes, coaches, journalists and administrators (and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice), which will announce the four playoff teams on Dec. 7 at 12:45pm ET live on ESPN. The top four teams in the rankings currently are Alabama, Oregon, TCU and Florida State.

College Football Postseason Highlights
Dec. 7 — College Football Playoff Selection Show, ESPN
Dec. 13 — Heisman Trophy Presentation, ESPN
Dec. 27 — Hyundai Sun Bowl, CBS
Duck Commander Independence Bowl, ABC
Dec. 31 — Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, ESPN
VIZIO Fiesta Bowl, ESPN
Capital One Orange Bowl, ESPN
Jan. 1 — Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl, ABC
Outback Bowl, ESPN2
Goodyear Cotton Bowl, ESPN
Jan. 2 — Valero Alamo Bowl, ESPN
College Football Playoff
Jan. 1 — Semifinal: Rose Bowl, ESPN
Semifinal: Allstate Sugar Bowl, ESPN
Jan. 12 — National Championship (Arlington, Texas), ESPN

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