New Year’s Six Bowl Games: Sugar, Peach, Fiesta, Cotton and Orange Bowl Matchups

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Getty UCF is headed to their second straight New Years Six bowl game.

If you are waiting to find out what teams will play in the college football New Year’s Six games, you might have a bit of a wait. While ESPN’s bowl selection show starts at 12 p.m. Eastern, the New Year’s Six Games are not expected to be announced until about 2 p.m. Eastern per UCFSports.com. We will update this page with the announcements for the Sugar, Peach, Fiesta, Cotton and Orange Bowls as soon as they are announced.

This season’s slate of games features a few compelling matchups. Washington takes on Ohio State in a traditional Rose Bowl matchup. Georgia missed out on making the College Football Playoff but gets an intriguing matchup against Texas in the Sugar Bowl.

UCF heads to their second straight New Year’s Six game, but the Knights will head out west this year to face LSU in the Fiesta Bowl. Florida and Michigan will square off in the Peach Bowl in the latest installment of their semi-regular matchup.

As for the College Football Playoff, Oklahoma secured the final spot and will take on Alabama in the Orange Bowl. Clemson will square off with Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl.

“We’re just excited to be in the playoffs,” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said per the Charlotte Observer. “This is what we worked for all year long. To have an opportunity to get together with our team and celebrate with all of our families, this is a big deal. We’re ready to go to Dallas. I’ve never been to the Cotton Bowl, so we’re really looking forward to it.”

Here’s a look at the New Year’s Six bowl schedule per ESPN.


New Year’s Six Bowl Schedule

December 29, 2018
Michigan vs. Florida
Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl
Noon ET, ESPN
Mercedes-Benz Stadium
Atlanta

College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl
No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 4 Oklahoma
4 or 8 p.m. ET, ESPN
Hard Rock Stadium
Miami Gardens, Florida

College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic
No. 2 Clemson vs. No. 3 Notre Dame
4 or 8 p.m. ET, ESPN
AT&T Stadium
Arlington, Texas

January 1, 2019

PlayStation Fiesta Bowl
UCF vs. LSU
1 p.m. ET, ESPN
State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Arizona
Glendale, Arizona

Rose Bowl
Washington vs. Ohio State
5 p.m. ET, ESPN
Rose Bowl
Pasadena, California

Allstate Sugar Bowl
Texas vs. Georgia
8:45 p.m. ET, ESPN
Mercedes-Benz Superdome
New Orleans, Louisiana