The Rose Bowl Game will start an hour earlier than its traditional window and kick off at 4 p.m. ET as part of a New Year's Day tripleheader of College Football Playoff quarterfinals on ESPN.

It will be a quarterfinal site once again in 2026, but the traditional kickoff time is changing, ESPN announced on Tuesday. This coming season, the Rose Bowl Game will start at 4 p.m. ET instead ...

On Tuesday, ESPN and the College Football Playoff announced the dates and kickoff times for the upcoming season, with several significant changes. Chief among those changes is a new kickoff time ...

The College Football Playoff announced the dates, schedules and times for the 2025-26 CFP starting with the quarterfinals ...

ESPN and event organizers for the Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl and Rose Bowl, according to Rich Clark, the executive director of the College Football Playoff. "All three bowls shifting their start ...

Two of those games will be on Jan. 1 and televised by ESPN. The Orange Bowl, traditionally a night game, will start at noon, followed by the Rose Bowl at 4 p.m. and the Sugar Bowl at 8 p.m. The ...

The 2026 Rose Bowl is set to start at 1 p.m. Pacific Time, not 2 p.m. as it has in years past, the College Football Playoff and broadcast partner ESPN announced Tuesday. The other CFP games set fo ...

the Rose Bowl Game has run long on several occasions, resulting in a delayed start for the following bowl game," Eads said, "and ultimately it was important for us to be good partners with ESPN ...