The New Year's Day football games 2025 schedule features three contests, and all three are College Football Playoff Quarterfinal matchups.

Now that the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff is down to four teams remaining — the size of the field the previous 10 seasons — things really don’t look that much different.

The first of two semifinals for the College Football Playoff is upon us. Penn State has taken apart SMU and Boise State, while Notre Dame cruised past Indiana and shut down Georgia. The Nittany Lions and the Fighting Irish will play for a spot in the National Championship Game,

College football embarks on a historic round of semifinal playoff games as the expanded 12-team format is narrowed down to four contenders for the national championship. With things set to kick off, let’s lock in our final predictions against the spread for the two big games.

The first 12-team College Football Playoff features four teams looking to break national championship droughts of 10 years or more. Who will win the first national title of the new era. Ohio State won its last national championship in 2014 — the first year of the four-team College Football Playoff.