IRVING, Texas (AP) — The College Football Playoff is set and it is historic: Cincinnati will play Alabama in the Cotton Bowl and Michigan will face Georgia in the Orange Bowl on New Year’s Eve. Fourth-seeded Cincinnati becomes the first team to break through the CFP’s glass ceiling and make college football’s final four from […]
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Playoff set: Alabama vs. Cincinnati, Michigan vs. Georgia
IRVING, Texas (AP) — The College Football Playoff is set and it is historic: Cincinnati will play Alabama in the Cotton Bowl and Michigan will face Georgia in the Orange Bowl on New Year’s Eve.
Fourth-seeded Cincinnati becomes the first team to break through the CFP’s glass ceiling and make college football’s final four from a non-Power Five conference. The Bearcats won the American Athletic Conference and head into the postseason as the only unbeaten team in the country. Their reward will be a matchup with the defending national champions.
The Crimson Tide is in the playoff for the seventh time in its eight-year history.
No. 2 seed Michigan and No. 3 Georgia, who’ll meet in the Orange Bowl, have only met twice before, and not since 1965. Georgia won that game 15-7. Michigan won 26-0 in 1957. Both were regular-season games.
Michigan is making its first appearance in the playoff. Georgia is in for the second time, and first since the 2017 season.