As expected ESPN will be the home of the college football's biggest games for the next 12 years. ESPN will have coverage of the college football playoffs, including two bowl approved semi final games and a Championship game starting in January 2015. In the last few weeks, ESPN has made several releases announcing extensions to the Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl thru 2026. The Orange bowl (in Miami) will include the ACC Champion against an at large team in the Big 10, the SEC or Notre Dame. The Sugar Bowl (the Super Dome in New Orleans) will now feature the SEC Champion facing the Big XII Champion in a comparable bowl game to the Rose Bowl (Pasadena in California). The bowls will also give an automatic bowl spot to 'Group of Five' Conferences which includes the Big East, Conference USA, the MAC Conference, the Sun Belt and the revised Mountain West.
The playoff system will include three other to be determined bowls that will rotate four bowl games with 2 selected bowl games assigned the semi finals for the NCAA Championship game the following week. The games expected to be selected are the Chick-fil-A Bowl (in Atlanta), the much maligned Fiesta Bowl (in Tempe) and the Cotton Bow (Cowboys Stadium) which may possibly be moving from FOX to ESPN.
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