If next year’s College Football Playoff structure was already in place, Ohio State would be preparing to host Penn State at Ohio Stadium today.
While this year’s College Football Playoff won’t begin for another 17 days – though today is the start of bowl season – next year’s CFP will have already started by now. The CFP schedules for both 2024 and 2025 call for first-round games to be played on the third weekend of December with one game on Friday and three games on Saturday, with the games to be hosted by the higher-seeded teams playing in the first round.