ESPN reveal huge broadcasting change for College Football Playoffs and Rose Bowl

ESPN revealed new broadcast changes for the 2025 edition of the College Football Playoff.

Among the new college football broadcast moves will be to the iconic Rose Bowl, which has a traditional time.

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ESPN and the CFP revealed the dates and kickoff times for the 2025 season.

However, it’s been uncovered that the Rose Bowl kickoff time has changed.

The Rose Bowl usually kicks off at 5:00 pm ET, but it will be moved up one hour earlier to 4:00 pm ET under the new changes.

So the two other New Year’s Day tripleheader matchups will also move up an hour.

And the Orange Bowl will begin at noon ET and the Sugar Bowl will kick off at 8:00 pm ET.

The Rose Bowl had previously led into the Sugar Bowl, meaning the latter game would start around 9:00 pm ET.

The CFP shared their reasoning for the changes in a press release.

“This New Year’s Day schedule adjustment is the result of a thoughtful collaboration between the CFP, ESPN, the Capital One, Orange Bowl, the Rose Bowl Game presented by Prudential, and the Allstate Sugar Bowl,” CFP executive director Rich Clark said.

“All three bowls shifting their start times allows us to place each game in an ideal window on New Year’s Day and provide the optimal viewing experience.

“New Year’s Day and college football are synonymous with each other, and these changes only strengthen that relationship.”

The new kickoff times will be permanent moving forward, per The Athletic’s Chris Vannini.

The Cotton Bowl will begin the major bowl slate on New Year’s Eve at 7:30 pm ET.

This year, the Fiesta Bowl and the Peach Bowl will be semifinal games.

Both will kick off at 7:30 pm ET on January 8 and 9, respectively.

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The CFP National Championship game will take place at 7:30 pm ET on January 19.

Just like last year, ESPN will be the exclusive home for all CFP from the quarterfinal round on.

The 2025-26 campaign will be the final in which ESPN and the CFP will work under its current expanded agreement before the new contract that takes the two through 2023.

Television windows for the first round games weren’t shared.

ESPN will now focus on airing the 2025 NFL Draft, which takes place on Thursday.