The first round of the College Football Playoffs continued, four teams reached the quarterfinals. The CFP games on campus brought something new to the sport and created a great atmosphere.

From South Bend to Columbus, hundreds of thousands of fans brought a new dynamic to the effort to win a national championship.

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Now the games are back at the venues we’ve known for a long time – the New Year’s Six Bowl locations. The four quarterfinal matchup rounds were set after action on Friday night and throughout the day on Saturday.

Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti will be very pleased with three teams in his conference making the final eight. The SEC isn’t too far behind with two representatives. Of the power conferences, the ACC is the only one no longer participating in the CFP at this point.

Things will start again on New Year’s Eve before three games take place in 2025. You can check out the updated College Football Playoff standings and quarterfinal games below.

Quarterfinal games

Of the four meetings, this is the only one where both teams are from the same conference. It’s also a rematch of the exciting Oct. 12 Euguene game that Oregon won.

Many expected the second game between these two to take place in Indianapolis. Pasadena will have to do, as it is, fittingly, a classic old-school Big Ten-Pac-12 matchup from the Rose Bowl.

A current Big 12 team versus a former Big 12 team, even though they were never in the conference at the same time. Texas is fresh off a win against Clemson and now travels to Atlanta to face Arizona State for the second time this season.

These two programs have faced each other only once – at the 2007 Holiday Bowl in San Diego. Seventeen years later, there will be a little more at stake in this mess.

James Franklin is playing in its first-ever College Football Playoff and is officially 1-0. His reward is now a long plane ride west into the desert to the Fiesta Bowl.

On the other side, the Heisman Trophy runner-up awaits Ashton Jeanty and Boise State. The fact that a Group of Five team earned a bye was historic in itself. The win over Penn State would only highlight the Broncos’ special season.

New Orleans is the perfect nightcap for New Year’s Day. Two historic programs will also play a role in the game when Georgia and Notre Dame meet again.

Kirby Smart’s squad defeated the Fighting Irish in a home-versus-home series beginning in 2017. Both games were classics and college football fans will be hoping for the same in the Sugar Bowl.