LSU football coach Lane Kiffin rails against College Football Playoff schedule: 'Got even worse'

Although the College Football Playoff volition stay a 12-team tract successful 2026, the tournament's committee has unveiled postseason dates and vessel sites for the adjacent 2 seasons.

The decisions centered astir the dates for quarterfinal and semifinal games, arsenic good arsenic the determination to propulsion the title crippled backmost to adjacent further successful January has drawn immoderate backlash. New LSU manager Lane Kiffin is among those speaking retired against the scheduling.

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Lane Kiffin speaks astatine a property league arsenic helium is introduced arsenic the caller caput shot manager of the LSU Tigers astatine Tiger Stadium successful Baton Rouge, Louisiana, connected Dec. 1, 2025. (Tyler Kaufman/Getty Images)

Quarterfinals successful the 2026 play are acceptable for Dec. 30 astatine the Fiesta Bowl and Jan. 1 astatine the Cotton, Peach and Rose bowls. The semifinals volition travel Jan. 14 astatine the Orange Bowl and Jan. 15 astatine the Sugar Bowl, with the title crippled Jan. 25 successful Las Vegas. 

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Last month's nationalist rubric crippled betwixt Indiana and Miami took spot connected Jan. 19.

The 2027 season's quarterfinals volition beryllium Dec. 31 astatine the Sugar Bowl and Jan. 1 astatine the Fiesta Bowl, Peach Bowl and Rose Bowl. Semifinals are Jan. 13 astatine the Orange Bowl and Jan. 14 astatine the Cotton Bowl. The title crippled is scheduled for Jan. 24 astatine the Superdome successful New Orleans.

The College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy connected Jan. 8, 2018 astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium successful Atlanta, Georgia. (David Rosenblum/Icon Sportswire)

Kiffin questioned the logic down the extended spread betwixt games, penning connected X, "Somehow the calendar got adjacent worse connected purpose…. Kids play until Jan 25th and person astir a period betwixt the games?!?!"

CFP enforcement manager Rich Clark said the docket is designed to beforehand competitory balance.

"These dates let america to support competitory balance, maximize the instrumentality experience, and supply consistency for everyone progressive successful the Playoff," Clark said successful a statement.

The CFP logo connected the tract earlier the 2024 College Football Playoff nationalist title crippled betwixt the Michigan Wolverines and the Washington Huskies astatine NRG Stadium successful Houston, Texas connected Jan. 8, 2024. (Kirby Lee/USA TODAY Sports)

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"I besides privation to convey our vessel partners and their section communities for the unthinkable work, collaboration, and committedness they’ve shown passim the archetypal 2 years of the expanded playoff. The vessel games and the radical down them embraced change, delivered astatine the highest level, and helped guarantee the expanded format was a occurrence for student-athletes, fans, and the sport."

The College Football Playoff debuted successful 2014.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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