College Football Playoff bracket: Updated schedule, results, scores for 2024 CFP games

The archetypal ever 12-team College Football Playoff is here, arsenic a twelve programs vie to determine this year's nationalist champion.

The docket successful 2024 is precise quality to that of year's past, however, arsenic teams volition person to triumph 3 oregon 4 games successful bid to triumph the apical prize. Additionally, for the archetypal clip ever, determination volition beryllium playoff games played connected assemblage campuses, adding an other constituent to the postseason.

Will No. 1 Oregon triumph it each successful the Ducks' archetypal Big Ten season? Can prima moving backmost Ashton Jeanty pb No. 3 Boise State to greatness? Or volition an underdog similar No. 10 Indiana marque a splash successful the postseason?

Ahead of this year's College Football Playoff, Sporting News breaks down everything determination is to cognize astir the 12-team bracket.

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College Football Playoff bracket

Here's a look astatine the afloat bracket for the 2024 College Football Playoff:

First round

• No. 5 Texas vs. No. 12 Clemson
• No. 6 Penn State vs. No. 11 SMU
• No. 7 Notre Dame vs. No. 10 Indiana
• No. 8 Ohio State vs. No. 9 Tennessee

Quarterfinals

• No. 1 Oregon vs. No. 8 Ohio State/No. 9 Tennessee
• No. 2 Georgia vs. No. 7 Notre Dame/No. 10 Indiana
• No. 3 Boise State vs. No. 6 Penn State/No. 11 SMU
• No. 4 Arizona State vs. No. 5 Texas/No. 12 Clemson

Semifinals

• TBD vs. TBD
• TBD vs. TBD

National Championship

• TBD vs. TBD

How was the CFP bracket determined?

This year's College Football Playoff is comprised of 5 league champions and 7 at-large participants. The 4 highest-ranked league champions each earned a bye, and the remaining 8 teams were seeded by their spot successful the last College Football Playoff rankings.

Additionally, teams volition not beryllium reseeded successful aboriginal rounds, truthful each team's way to the title crippled is determined by the archetypal bracket.

College Football Playoff schedule

First round

The archetypal circular of games are being played astatine the location tract of the the higher-ranked team, truthful determination is nary vessel crippled associated with each matchup.

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

The participants of the Semifinal vessel games volition beryllium determined aft the quarterfinals conclude.

National Championship

TV Channels, unrecorded streams for the College Football Playoff

• TV Channels: ESPN, ABC, TNT
• Streaming: ESPN+, Max, Fubo

The bulk of these games volition beryllium broadcast connected ESPN and streamed connected ESPN+ and Fubo. In the archetypal round, 2 ESPN games volition besides beryllium simulcast connected ABC, portion 2 volition beryllium broadcast connected TNT and streamed connected Max.

For those looking for a streaming option, check retired Fubo for each games broadcast connected ESPN.

When does the College Football Playoff end?

• Start Date: Dec. 20, 2024
• End Date: Jan. 20, 2025

The College Football volition span precisely 1 month, with the archetypal crippled taking spot connected Friday, Dec. 20, erstwhile Notre Dame big Indiana successful the archetypal round. After 3 rounds of the Playoff, the National Championship volition instrumentality spot Monday, Jan. 20, erstwhile 2 teams volition conscionable successful Atlanta.