The primary yr of the 12-team School Soccer Playoff will kick off with a first-round sport on Dec. 20 and conclude with the title sport one month later in Atlanta.
The CFP introduced its total schedule on Wednesday. The 4 first-round video games will probably be on Dec. 20 and 21. ABC and ESPN will televise video games on Friday and Saturday night time with an 8 p.m. EST kickoff, whereas TNT could have the Dec. 21 afternoon video games at 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. The afternoon video games will go up in opposition to a pair of NFL video games with the Houston Texans taking over the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs at 1 p.m. and the Baltimore Ravens in opposition to the Pittsburgh Steelers at 4:30 p.m on FOX and the FOX Sports activities App.
Mike Mulvihill, FOX president for insights and analytics, thinks there will probably be room to accommodate each audiences. FOX has the Ravens-Steelers sport because it goes up in opposition to a CFP late afternoon matchup.
“I believe it is going to be nice for the NFL and school soccer to coexist on that date. I believe each occasions will fee simply nice,” Mulvihill mentioned.
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The 4 first-round video games, which will probably be performed on school campuses, will probably be introduced on Dec. 8. TNT has a pair of video games by way of a sublicense with ESPN.
ESPN’s $7.8 billion cope with the CFP, which was introduced in March, allowed it to sublicense video games to different networks. Monetary phrases of the sublicense weren’t introduced.
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The quarterfinals, semifinals and championship will air on ESPN.
The highest 4 convention champions will obtain first-round byes. The quarterfinals will start on Dec. 31 with the Fiesta Bowl at 7:30 p.m. New Yr’s Day will kickoff with the Peach Bowl at 1 p.m. adopted by the Rose Bowl in its conventional 5 p.m. spot and the Sugar Bowl at 8:45 p.m.
The semifinals are the Orange Bowl on Jan. 9 and Cotton Bowl on Jan. 10. Each have 7:30 p.m. begin occasions earlier than the championship sport takes place on Jan. 20 in Atlanta.
ESPN will announce its schedule for a lot of the bowl video games on Thursday.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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