{"id":593626,"date":"2023-01-03T09:49:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T15:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/03\/espn-college-football-playoff-criticized-as-peach-bowl-ends-after-midnight-sports-illustrated\/"},"modified":"2023-01-03T09:49:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T15:49:39","slug":"espn-college-football-playoff-criticized-as-peach-bowl-ends-after-midnight-sports-illustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/03\/espn-college-football-playoff-criticized-as-peach-bowl-ends-after-midnight-sports-illustrated\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN, College Football Playoff Criticized As Peach Bowl Ends After Midnight &#8211; Sports Illustrated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The ending of the Peach Bowl, with\u00a0<span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/college-football\/team\/ohio-state-buckeyes\">Ohio State<\/a><\/span>\u00a0missing a field goal against\u00a0<span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/college-football\/team\/georgia-bulldogs\">Georgia<\/a><\/span>\u00a0with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/2023\/01\/01\/georgia-rallies-to-defeat-ohio-state-advances-to-cfp-national-championship-game\">a trip to the College Football Playoff national championship game on the line<\/a>, coincided perfectly with the clock striking midnight on New Year\u2019s Eve. Not surprisingly, many television viewers were watching the missed kick instead of the ball dropping in Times Square.<\/p>\n<p>This scheduling, the second straight year and fourth overall when the CFP semifinals were played on New Year\u2019s Eve, received some backlash on social media. Many observers were expecting the second semifinal to be over by the time the clock turned to 2023, so when it dragged on, those viewers were unhappy.<\/p>\n<p>The original reasoning for the scheduling was to avoid interfering with the Rose Bowl when that game wasn\u2019t part of the semifinals. After back-to-back semifinals on New Year\u2019s Eve in 2015 and \u201916, the CFP management committee said it wasn\u2019t going to schedule games on\u00a0New Year\u2019s Eve\u00a0if it fell on a weekend.<\/p>\n<p>However, the past two sets of semifinals in 2021 and \u201922 were scheduled on New Year\u2019s Eve because it fell on Friday and Saturday, respectively. Next year, when the Rose Bowl will again host a semifinal, the CFP games will be played on New Year\u2019s Day again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/2023\/01\/01\/espn-college-football-playoff-criticism-peach-bowl-midnight-new-years-eve\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> Daniel Chavkin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ending of the Peach Bowl, with\u00a0Ohio State\u00a0missing a field goal against\u00a0Georgia\u00a0with a trip to the College Football Playoff national championship game on the line, coincided perfectly with the clock striking midnight on New Year\u2019s Eve. Not surprisingly, many television viewers were watching the missed kick instead of the ball dropping in Times Square.This scheduling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":593627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1850,3790],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-593626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-college","8":"category-football"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}