It’s the best day of the college football year
Happy New Year, y’all.
New Year’s Day is always the biggest day of the year for the college football world and this year is no different as we’ve got three playoff quarterfinal games on tap: the Peach Bowl, Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl, with winners advancing to the CFP semifinals next week.
Penn State is already through after eliminating Boise State last night in the Fiesta Bowl. Come hang out and see who’s gonna join Penn State.
Chick Fil A Peach Bowl: #5 Texas vs. #4 Arizona State, 12:00 P.M., ESPN
Rose Bowl Presented by Prudential: #8 Ohio State vs. #1 Oregon, 4:00 P.M., ESPN
Allstate Sugar Bowl: #7 Notre Dame vs. #2 Georgia, 7:45 P.M., ESPN
The Peach Bowl gets 2025 underway and while I’ll be rooting for Arizona State, we’ve seen the betting favorites run away with these CFP games. Texas comes in as a 13-point favorite and while the Longhorns haven’t really beaten anyone all that impressive I’m not sure Arizona State is deep or talented enough to hang with the Horns for 60 minutes.
Texas -13.5, O/U 52
Oregon is the last remaining undefeated team across the land and the playoff committee did them no favors at all with their draw. Oregon’s reward for winning the B1G and going 13-0 is a rematch with an Ohio State team that 1) they’ve already beaten and 2) looked really really good dismantling Tennessee in The Shoe. Can the Ducks do it again? I’m not sure.
Ohio State -2.5, O/U 56
The winner of tonight’s Sugar Bowl gets Penn State in the Orange Bowl (January 9, 6:30 P.M) and while the Dawgs are a slight favorite, they’re gonna have to make this playoff run without Carson Beck. Notre Dame may have the advantage at quarterback, but I think Georgia’s got more talent across the board and Marcus Freeman’s going to run into the same problem Brian Kelly had in his tenure: talent wise there’s just a hard ceiling at Notre Dame.
Notre Dame -1, O/U 51.5
UPDATE
The Sugar Bowl is being postponed to tomorrow in light of an early morning terrorist attack in the French Quarter that killed 10 people and injured 35.