College football bowl season: New Year’s Six schedule features loaded lineup
The matchups and schedule for the New Year’s Six bowl games are revealed.
The change in the bowl schedule after the introduction of the College Football Playoff and expanded bowl season has changed New Year’s Day. It used to be the most glorious day and a heckuva way to begin the new year and nurse your hangover from the night before.
Gone are the days of watching 20-plus games from the time you woke up until the moment you passed out on the couch. The first New Year’s Six game is the Cotton Bowl on Dec. 28 and features Oklahoma taking on Florida in a game that should see 70-plus points scored.
Then, it picks back up on New Year’s Day with the Peach Bowl between undefeated Cincinnati fighting for respect against Georgia. The Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl playoff semifinal games follow with Alabama playing Notre Dame in the Rose Bowl, which will be played at AT&T Stadium and then Clemson playing Ohio State in the Sugar, which is a rematch from last year’s Fiesta Bowl.
The New Year’s Six wraps up on Jan. 2 with the Fiesta Bowl between Pac-12 champ Oregon taking on Big 12 runner-up Iowa State followed by the Orange Bowl between Texas A&M who was the first team out of the playoff rankings taking on North Carolina, the highest-ranked member from the ACC not playing in the College Football Playoff.
New Year’s Six schedule
Dec. 28 – Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic – 8:00 p.m. ET – ESPN: Oklahoma vs. Florida
Jan. 1 – Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl – 12:30 p.m. ET – ESPN: Cincinnati vs. Georgia
Jan. 1 – Rose Bowl Game Presented by Capital One – CFP Semifinal – 5:00 p.m. ET – ESPN: Alabama vs. Notre Dame
Jan. 1 – Allstate Sugar Bowl – CFP Semifinal – 8:45 p.m. ET – ESPN: Clemson vs. Ohio State
Jan. 2 – PlayStation Fiesta Bowl: Oregon vs. Iowa State
Jan. 2 – Capital One Orange Bowl: Texas A&M vs. North Carolina
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