Bowl sees strong ticket demand ahead of newly expanded 12-team playoff.
ATLANTA (Sept. 12, 2024) – Officials today announced that the first-ever College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl is sold out.
The Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl has now sold out 25 of its last 28 games and this marks the earliest sellout of a non-Semifinal game for the Bowl in the CFP era.
As part of the newly expanded 12-team College Football Playoff, the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl will host its first CFP Quarterfinal at 1 p.m. ET on New Year’s Day. This season’s game will be nationally telecast by ESPN, and potential teams will be announced when the 2024-25 postseason bracket is released by the CFP selection committee on Sunday, Dec. 8.
This year’s CFP Quarterfinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl will feature one of the four highest-ranked conference champions who received a first-round bye vs. the winner of one of the on-campus, first-round games.
The newly expanded field of 12 teams will be comprised of the five conference champions ranked highest by the CFP selection committee, in addition to the seven highest-ranked remaining teams. No conference will qualify automatically and there will be no limit on the number of participants from a conference. The four highest-ranked conference champions will be seeded one through four and each will receive a first-round bye. The other eight teams will play in the first round with the higher seeds hosting the lower seeds either on campus or at other sites designated by the higher-seeded institution. The Quarterfinals and Semifinals will then be played in the New Year’s Six bowl games.
“We are certainly looking forward to an electric, sold-out atmosphere as we usher in the new expanded playoff era,” said Peach Bowl, Inc. CEO and President Gary Stokan. “The 12-team format will open new opportunities for teams, players and fans, and there is no better place to do that than Atlanta, the Capital of College Football.”
Since its inaugural game in 1968, the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl has attracted more than 3.3 million fans to Atlanta, with an average of 69,773 fans attending the game since the creation of the CFP in 2014.
The Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl last hosted a CFP game in 2022 when eventual National Champion No. 1 Georgia defeated No. 4 Ohio State 42-41 in the CFP Semifinal. That game’s attendance of 79,330 set new Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl and Mercedes-Benz Stadium records, surpassing the number of fans who attended Super Bowl LIII, the 2018 CFP National Championship and the SEC Championship in the same venue.
Ticket Availability on the Secondary Market Through Ticketmaster
Fans interested in locating tickets in the secondary ticket market can visit the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl’s official ticket exchange on Ticketmaster. It is common for secondary market prices to exceed face value. Visit https://chick-fil-apeachbowl.com/tickets to view tickets for resale on the exchange.
