Sports fans will be able to celebrate the first day of 2025 with a packed viewing schedule as six powerhouses battle in three College Football Playoff (CFP) quarterfinals. In the New Year's Day quarters,

College football's newfound parity has been a major talking point through the 2024 season. For a multitude of perfectly sensible reasons, the good teams aren't as good at the power conference level, and some of the bad teams aren't as bad.

College football will have consecutive national champions from outside the Sun Belt region for the first time in three decades if Ohio State beats Texas in a playoff semifinal this week.