All quarterfinal games will be broadcast on ESPN. The games will also be available to stream on ESPN.com and the ESPN app. After this round are the semifinals, which will be played on Thursday, Jan. 8 and Friday, Jan. 9.

No. 8 Alabama kicked off the first-round weekend Friday with a bang, erasing a 17-0 deficit to stun No. 9 Oklahoma 34-24. The first road win in College Football Playoff history earned the Crimson Tide a date with No. 1 Indiana in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day.

Luke Littler survives, averaging 106.58 in an edgy 4-2 win over Rob Cross, who had a dart to send the game to a last-set decider. The madness at the 2026 PDC Darts World Championship continues on Monday, for Day 16, as six matches will be played.

National semifinal berths are on the line in the College Football Playoff. After the 2025-26 CFP kicked off with on-campus games in Round 1, the quarterfinals will be comprised of four major bowl games: the Cotton, Orange, Sugar and Rose Bowls.

The College Football Playoff is the main attraction of the college football postseason, but there are a handful of other fascinating matchups in regular bowl games.

As a result, the Hurricanes will go on the road to face Texas A&M and Alabama will travel for a rematch with Oklahoma as the two standout games of the first round. The first round is rounded out by another rematch between Tulane and Ole Miss, and James Madison taking on Oregon as the biggest underdog of this year's playoff.

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Speaking of the playoffs, with just one game left in Week 17, 12 of the NFL's 14 postseason spots have been clinched with one spot still up for grabs in each conference. We'll be breaking down the playoff picture in today's newsletter,