The 2026 Rose Bowl will certainly start around an hour earlier than it commonly has.
ESPN and the College Football Playoff introduced the 3 quarterfinal video games on New Year’s Day will certainly start earlier than they did a period back. The Orange Bowl will certainly start at noontime ET, the Rose Bowl will certainly start at 4 p.m. ET and the Sugar Bowl will certainly start at 8 p.m. ET.
In 2025, the Peach Bowl started at 1 p.m. ET, with the Rose Bowl at 5 p.m. ET and the Sugar Bowl initially set up for an 8:45 p.m. ET first prior to it was postponed tillJan 2 as a result of the New Year’s Eve horror assault in New Orleans.
“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 exec supervisor Rich Clark claimed in a declaration. “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 Rose Bowl’s time adjustment might not appear substantial in the beginning glimpse. However, the championship game’s time and day have actually been a historical university football practice. With a roughly 2 p.m. PT first, the sunlight establishes versus the San Gabriel Mountains in the 2nd fifty percent of the video game. Now, the sundown will likely occur late in the 4th quarter as the video game wraps up.
Seriously, the sunset is a big deal That late 3rd quarter sundown is a remarkable view, and a large reason that it took as long for the playoff to increase to 12 groups. The Rose Bowl suches as having the second-half visuals wherefore’s generally the most-watched New Year’s Day championship game. But the Sugar Bowl was additionally occasionally beginning after 9 p.m. ET for a video game that generally consists of a group from the Eastern Time Zone.
The playoff and the Rose Bowl got to a concession of kinds in advance of the 2024 period as the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowls will certainly constantly be quarterfinal video games and maintain their New Year’s Day time ports. The various other 4 video games– the Cotton Bowl, the Orange Bowl, the Peach Bowl and the Fiesta Bowl– turn being quarterfinal and semifinal websites in the existing layout.
After holding a semifinal to cover the 2024 period, the Cotton Bowl is the initial quarterfinal at the end of the 2025 period. That video game will certainly start at 7:30 p.m. ET onDec 31. The Fiesta Bowl will certainly be playedJan 8 and the Peach Bowl will certainly beJan 9 as they organize semifinals, and the nationwide title video game isJan 19 at 7:30 p.m. ET.
