2025 Cotton Bowl Classic (January)

Postseason college football bowl game College football game

2025 Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic

College Football Playoff Semifinal
89th Cotton Bowl Classic

Date

January 10, 2025

Season

Stadium

Location

United States TV coverage

Cotton Bowl Classic
< 2023 (Dec.)	2026 >

The 2025 Cotton Bowl Classic is a college football bowl game that is scheduled to be played on January 10, 2025, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The 89th annual Cotton Bowl Classic will feature two playoff teams. The game is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. CST and will air on ESPN. The Cotton Bowl Classic will be one of the 2024–25 bowl games concluding the 2024 FBS football season. Sponsored by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and the game is officially known as the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic.

Background

The 2025 Cotton bowl is a semifinal game for the College Football Playoff (CFP). The game will feature the winner of the Rose Bowl and the winner of the Peach Bowl. The winner of this game will advance to the 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship game and will face the winner of the Orange Bowl.

2025 Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic

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v t e 2024–25 NCAA football bowl game season
Celebration (Dec. 14) Salute to Veterans (Dec. 14) Frisco (Dec. 17) Boca Raton (Dec. 18) LA (Dec. 18) New Orleans (Dec. 19) Cure (Dec. 20) Gasparilla (Dec. 20) Myrtle Beach (Dec. 23) Famous Idaho Potato (Dec. 23) Hawaii (Dec. 24) GameAbove Sports (Dec. 26) Rate (Dec. 26) 68 Ventures (Dec. 26) Armed Forces (Dec. 27) Birmingham (Dec. 27) Liberty (Dec. 27) Holiday (Dec. 27) Las Vegas (Dec. 27) Fenway (Dec. 28) Pinstripe (Dec. 28) New Mexico (Dec. 28) Pop-Tarts (Dec. 28) Arizona (Dec. 28) Military (Dec. 28) Alamo (Dec. 28) Independence (Dec. 28) Music City (Dec. 30) ReliaQuest (Dec. 31) Sun (Dec. 31) Citrus (Dec. 31) Texas (Dec. 31) Gator (Jan. 2) First Responder (Jan. 3) Duke's Mayo (Jan. 3) Bahamas (Jan. 4)
College Football Playoff games: Fiesta (Dec. 31) Peach (Jan. 1) Rose (Jan. 1) Sugar (Jan. 1) Orange (Jan. 9) Cotton (Jan. 10) National Championship Game (Jan. 20)
All-Star Games Hula Bowl (Jan. 11) Tropical Bowl (Jan. 18) East–West Shrine Bowl (Jan. 30) Senior Bowl (Feb. 1) HBCU Legacy Bowl (Feb. 22)

v t e Cotton Bowl Classic
History & conference tie-ins	History Cotton Bowl AT&T Stadium College Football Playoff Playoff at-large Group of Five
Games	1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 (January) 1966 (December) 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 (January) 2015 (December) 2017 (January) 2017 (December) 2018 2019 2020 2021 2023 (January) 2023 (December) 2025 (January) 2025 (December)
Notes	There was a Cotton Bowl Classic in January and December in 1966, 2015, 2017, 2023, 2025. The 2015 (December), 2018, 2021, and 2025 (January) editions were College Football Playoff semifinals.

Overview

Games

4-team
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12-team
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Other

Championship games for each season are played in January, as well as the Rose Bowl semifinal and the Sugar Bowl semifinal