Overview
- College football’s New Year’s Eve slate concludes with the Cotton Bowl quarterfinal between No. 2 Ohio State and No. 10 Miami at 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN, with sportsbooks listing the Buckeyes around a 9.5-point favorite.
- New Year’s Day features a CFP tripleheader: No. 5 Oregon vs. No. 4 Texas Tech in the Orange Bowl at noon ET, No. 1 Indiana vs. No. 9 Alabama in the Rose Bowl at 4 p.m. ET, and No. 3 Georgia vs. No. 6 Ole Miss in the Sugar Bowl at 8 p.m. ET.
- Oregon enters the Orange Bowl as a slight favorite near -2.5, while analysis highlights Texas Tech’s nation-leading havoc and takeaway rates as the Red Raiders’ path to disrupting QB Dante Moore.
- Draft-focused previews flag top prospects in these games, including Ohio State’s Arvell Reese, Caleb Downs and Carnell Tate, Miami’s Rueben Bain Jr., Oregon quarterback Dante Moore and Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza.
- Four non-playoff bowls set the stage earlier today: Vanderbilt vs. Iowa in the ReliaQuest Bowl (noon ET, ESPN), Arizona State vs. Duke in the Sun Bowl (2 p.m. ET, CBS), Texas vs. Michigan in the Citrus Bowl (3 p.m. ET, ABC) and Nebraska vs. Utah in the Las Vegas Bowl (3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN).