"College Football Playoff expands to 12 teams with set schedules for 2024 and 2025 seasons"

The College Football Playoff is expanding to 12 teams with four rounds of competition, resulting in a five-day football viewing extravaganza in January 2025 and 2026. The semifinals will be played on the Thursday and Friday evenings prior to the NFL’s wild card weekend, featuring eight games at two different levels of the sport. The playoff will be spread out, pushing the action deep into January, which has generally been a time on the sports calendar owned solely by the NFL playoffs.