The TV ratings proved views were interested. Each of the four games averaged 10.6 million viewers. That’s more than the four the non-CFP New Year’s bowls after the 2023 season averaged (8.14 million), and also topped the average for this year’s four major conference championship games (10 million).

And it will happen on the island of Honolulu. In the lone college football bowl game on the Christmas Eve schedule, South Florida (6-6) and San Jose State (7-5) will clash in the Hawaii Bowl at 7 p.m. CT inside the Clarence T.C. Ching Athletic Complex in ...

CFP Quarterfinal at the Rose Bowl Game Presented by Prudential Rose Bowl (Pasadena, California) 5 p.m., ESPN CFP Quarterfinal at the Allstate Sugar Bowl Caesars Superdome (New Orleans) 8:45 p.m., ESPN CFP Semifinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl Hard Rock Stadium (Miami Gardens, Florida) 7:30 p.m., ESPN

When are College Football Playoff quarterfinal games? Fiesta Bowl, Peach Bowl, Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl schedule, dates, times, TV channels, announcers.

College football's 12-team playoff rollout was spoiled by the NFL, with the Texans-Chiefs getting 15.5 million viewers while the SMU-Penn State game averaged 6.4 million. The Steelers-Ravens game drew 15.