College football has scheduling clash with expanded playoff to affect huge game
COLLEGE Football will be dealing with 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 have an impact on the traditional Army-Navy Game.
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The bowl season will be different with the NCAA introducing expansion of the College Football Playoff this upcoming season.
The 2024 bowl season will begin a week after conference championship weekend.
So 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 start the bowl season at noon ET on ABC.
Army-Navy will be next on CBS in its usual 3 pm ET timeslot.
That game will be followed by the Camellia Bowl at 9 pm ET on ESPN.
The first-round playoff games will be on Saturday, December 21 caused the shift, according to Bowl Season executive director Nick Carparelli.
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There will be 11 bowl games, along with 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 quarterfinal on New Year’s Eve.
Another four will be between the quarterfinals and semifinals.
College football fans will be treated to plenty of bowl games between Christmas and New Year’s.
Three games will take place on Thursday, December 26, four are on Friday, December 27, and eight will be on live TV on Saturday, December 28.
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There will be five games on New Year’s Eve.
New Year’s Day will have a CFP quarterfinal triple-header of games which include the Peach Bowl, the Rose Bowl, and the Sugar Bowl.
Bowl games are lined up through January 4.
College football’s 2024 shake-up
Oklahoma and Texas switching from the Big 12 to the SEC is one of the biggest changes to college football in recent times.
And that has set off a chain reaction which has left the Pac-12 conference decimated.
The Pac-12 has lost 10 of its 12 members and is down to just Oregon State and Washington State.
Four of those teams are headed for the Big 12 – Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah.
Another four are going to the Big 10 – Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington.
And the other two teams, California and Stanford, will join the ACC conference.
No teams have left the SEC, Big Ten or ACC.
The CFP semifinals begin on January 9 with the Orange Bowl.
A day later, the Cotton Bowl Classic takes place on January 10.
The championship game will be in Atlanta on January 20.
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