ATLANTA (Dec. 7, 2025) – The 2026 College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl will feature a matchup between two of the following teams as revealed today by the CFP selection committee's release of the 2025-26 bracket: No. 9 Alabama, No. 8. Oklahoma, No. 12 James Madison, No. 5 Oregon, No. 4 Texas Tech or No. 1 Indiana.
As part of the recently expanded 12-team College Football Playoff, CFP, the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl will host its CFP Semifinal game at 7:30 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 9 from Mercedes-Benz Stadium and will be nationally televised on ESPN.
This season's CFP Semifinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl will feature a matchup between the winners of the two CFP Quarterfinal games hosted by the Rose Bowl Game Presented by Prudential and the Capital One Orange Bowl on Jan. 1. The winner of the CFP Semifinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl will then advance to play in the 2026 CFP National Championship Game Monday, Jan. 19 at Miami's Hard Rock Stadium.
This will represent the fourth time the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl has hosted a CFP Semifinal game, but its first in the new expanded 12-team College Football Playoff format. The Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl previously hosted CFP Semifinals in 2016, 2019 and 2022 during the four-team College Football Playoff and hosted its first-ever CFP Quarterfinal Jan. 1, 2025.
The Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl last hosted a CFP Semifinal game in 2022 when eventual National Champion No. 1 Georgia defeated No. 4 Ohio State 42-41.
The 2025-26 CFP consists of the five highest ranked conference champions and the next seven highest-ranked teams that were then seeded into a 12-team bracket based on the final rankings, with the four highest-ranked teams receiving a first-round bye.
Teams ranked Nos. 5-12 will play in the CFP First Round, with the higher seeds hosting the lower seeds. This season's Playoff Quarterfinals will then be hosted by the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, Capital One Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl Game presented by Prudential and the Allstate Sugar Bowl, while the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl and Vrbo Fiesta Bowl host the two Semifinals.
To see the full bracket or to learn more about how teams are selected and seeded, please visit:
https://collegefootballplayoff.com.
