SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Dabo Swinney was pretty blunt when he was asked if the College Football Playoff should play its semifinal games on New Year’s Day every year.
For more than a half century, New Year’s Day was always reserved for the game’s biggest bowls … The Rose Bowl, the Orange Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, the Cotton Bowl and in the last 30 years the Fiesta Bowl.
“For me, I would say yes,” Swinney said. “I would much prefer to be on January 1 and just have the consistency in that and I have done that. We played on the first, maybe it was the 31st.