College Football Playoff Format 2023 Explained
College football fans are excited about playoff expansion but that won’t happen until 2024. Here’s the College Football Playoff format explained for the 2023 season.
Over the last decade or so, college football has undergone some enormous changes. The four-team College Football Playoff was introduced and we have also seen major changes in the conference landscape, NIL, and the transfer portal.
The College Football Playoff has been a major success. It makes you wonder how we ever allowed there to be just two teams meeting for the national title, even though for a long time, that meeting didn’t even happen.
Finally, in 2024, college football will have something that resembles how the NFL decides its champion with a 12-team College Football Playoff.
That’s going to be a first in FBS college football and it will make the regular season even more exciting. More teams will have a shot at the national title in November than ever before, at least the idea of a shot.
However, we have one more season of the four-team playoff, and here’s an explainer of the 2023 College Football Playoff format as we are less than 100 days away from kickoff.
College Football Playoff Format for 2023
This year’s College Football Playoff format will have the biggest games on New Year’s Day once again as the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowls will host the national semifinals on Jan. 1.
The Rose Bowl will start at 5 PM EST, followed by the Sugar Bowl at approximately 8:45 PM EST, although we know these games can go long, though maybe not with the new clock rules designed to make games go faster.
Next. Spring College Football Playoff and Bowl Projections. dark
After the semifinals, the two teams will meet on Jan. 8 in Houston, Texas for the College Football Playoff national championship game. It would be one week from the semifinals and this year will be the final rendition of the original four-team playoff format.