COLLEGE Football will face a scheduling conflict due to the expansion of the playoffs – and it will affect a legendary game.
The expansion of the College Football Playoff will impact the traditional Army-Navy game.
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Bowl season will be different with the NCAA introducing the expansion of the College Football Playoff this upcoming season.
The 2024 bowl season will begin one week after the conference championship weekend.
Thus, the bowl games will take place on the same day as the Army-Navy Game.
The iconic game usually has its own day and marks the end of the regular season.
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On December 14, the Celebration Bowl will kick off bowl season at noon ET on ABC.
Army-Navy will be next on CBS in its usual time slot of 3 p.m. ET.
That game will be followed by the Camellia Bowl at 9pm ET on ESPN.
The first round playoff games will be on Saturday, December 21, which caused the change, according to Bowl season executive director Nick Carparelli.
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There will be 11 bowl games, plus four first-round games, taking place before Christmas this year.
That number was 18 in the 2023-24 season.
And there will be 19 games between Christmas and the first quarter-finals on New Year’s Eve.
Another four will be between quarterfinals and semifinals.
College football fans will have plenty of bowl games between Christmas and New Year’s.
Three games will take place on Thursday 26th December, four on Friday 27th December and eight will be shown live on TV on Saturday 28th December.
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There will be five games on New Year’s Eve.
New Year’s Day will feature a tripleheader of CFP quarterfinal games, which includes the Peach Bowl, Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl.
Bowl games are scheduled through January 4th.
College Football Changing in 2024
The move of Oklahoma and Texas from the Big 12 to the SEC is one of the biggest changes in college football in recent memory.
And that set off a chain reaction that left the Pac-12 conference decimated.
The Pac-12 has lost 10 of its 12 members and is down to just Oregon and Washington states.
Four of those teams are headed to the Big 12 – Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah.
Four others go to the Big 10 – Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington.
And the other two teams, California and Stanford, will participate in the ACC conference.
No team has left the SEC, Big Ten or ACC.
The CFP semifinals begin on January 9th with the Orange Bowl.
One day later, the Cotton Bowl Classic takes place on January 10th.
The championship game will be in Atlanta on January 20th.
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