2025 Orange Bowl Lines - Fiesta Bowl vs. Sugar Bowl Winner

Orange Bowl Lines - College Football Playoff Semifinal

The 2025 Orange Bowl will be a College Football Playoff Semifinal matchup and will feature two College Football Playoff quarterfinal winners, the winner of the 2024 Fiesta Bowl College Football Quarterfinal game and the winner of the 2025 Sugar Bowl College Football Playoff quarterfinal game. The 2025 Orange Bowl will take place on Thursday, January 9, 2025 and be held at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. It will be the 91st annual Orange Bowl and have a start time of 7:30 pm Eastern and be shown on ESPN. The game is sponsored by Capital One and will officially be known as the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl. The winner of the 2025 Orange Bowl will advance to the 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship Game.

2025 Orange Bowl at a Glance

Date: Thursday, January 9, 2025

Time (ET) / TV: 7:30 PM / ESPN

Venue: Hard Rock Stadium, Miami, Florida

Matchup: 2024 Fiesta Bowl College Football Quarterfinal winner vs. 2025 Sugar Bowl College Football Quarterfinal winner.

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Orange Bowl Format

One of the oldest bowl games, the Orange Bowl has been played in the Miami, Florida area since January 1, 1935. The Orange Bowl was first held in Miami at Miami Field before moving to the Miami Orange Bowl stadium in 1938. The Orange Bowl moved to Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens in 1996, home of the Miami Dolphins and the University of Miami. The game has been sponsored by Capital One since 2014 and is officially known as the Capital One Orange Bowl.

The Orange Bowl has been tied to the College Football Playoff since after the 2014 season. The game hosts the ACC champion in the years that the game does not host a College Football Playoff national semifinal. The ACC has a deal with the Orange Bowl so if the ACC Champion qualifies for the College Football Playoff and the Orange Bowl is not the semifinal host, the next highest ranked ACC team gets a spot. The SEC and Big Ten conference get consideration for the other spot along with Notre Dame. ESPN holds the television rights for the Orange Bowl through at least the 2026 season.

Orange Bowl Past Results

The Orange Bowl had a long traditional tie-in with the Big Eight Conference that later became the Big 12. Thus, the Oklahoma Sooners were frequent participants in this game and held the all-time record of 12 Orange Bowl wins. Oklahoma’s old rival from those days was the Nebraska Cornhuskers, who rank second with eight wins. In fact, Oklahoma and Nebraska met in the 1979 Orange Bowl in a rematch from that 1978 season in which Nebraska won. Oklahoma got revenge in that Orange Bowl 31-24.

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