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College Football Playoff

College Football Playoff Squares for the 12-Team Field

Run a squares board for bowl season and the 12-team College Football Playoff. Share one link, fill the grid, and follow the bracket all the way to the championship game.

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Running boards since the 2025 season. No app. No signup for players.

  • 1,124 boards created
  • 6,533 players with squares on a board
  • 1,847 winners marked

53 days until the first round

What Are College Football Playoff Squares?

The College Football Playoff is a 12-team single-elimination bracket that runs alongside the rest of bowl season, and squares works exactly the way it does for any football game: a 10x10 grid, names go in, digits 0 through 9 get drawn for the rows and columns once the grid is full, and the last digit of each team's score at the end of every quarter picks a winner.

Bowl season stacks games on top of games. A squares board gives every single one a reason to matter.

A football squares board with the numbers drawn and the quarter winners marked
A live football squares board. Same grid for a bowl game or a Playoff game.

Bowl Season Has More Than the Playoff

The twelve-team bracket is the headline, but it is not the only football on in December and January. Dozens of bowl games fill the calendar around it, and squares works the same way for any of them. Run a board for the Playoff game your group is watching, and start separate boards for any bowl games on the side. One link per game keeps the scoring clean.

Bowl and Playoff Games on the Schedule

TBA at TBA
Sat Dec 5
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Navy at Army
Sat Dec 12, 3:00 PM ET
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Kickoff times above show as date-only until the network confirms them; the date is correct either way.

Tips for a College Playoff Squares Pool

  • Sell squares first, randomize numbers second, same as any football squares board.
  • One board per game. The bracket has too many moving pieces to track on a single grid.
  • Decide your overtime rule before kickoff, since college overtime is not the same format as the NFL's.
  • Set a claim deadline. Bowl season moves fast, and the schedule is easy to lose track of.

Running it on paper instead? Print a free blank grid and draw the digits with our number generator.

Create Your College Playoff Squares Board

Free. Share a link. 100 squares. Four winners per game.

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Beyond the College Playoff

football squares covers any NFL game on the schedule, and Super Bowl squares is the dedicated home for the NFL's championship. The NFL runs its own bracket at the same time of year: NFL playoff squares covers Wild Card weekend through the conference championships. Looking further back on the calendar, Thanksgiving football squares and Christmas football squares cover the holiday slate.

FAQ

Twelve, playing a single-elimination bracket that runs through bowl season and ends in the national championship game.

Yes. Bowl season has plenty of games outside the twelve-team bracket, and squares works the same way for any of them. Pick the game, name the board, share the link.

Early kickoff times for college football games sometimes move once the broadcast network locks them in. We show the date as soon as a game is on the schedule and add the kickoff time once it is confirmed, rather than guess and risk being wrong.

No. Creating a board and claiming squares on Pick My Square is free. We never collect anything from players or hold anything for your group.

No. March Madness is the NCAA basketball tournament in the spring, and it has its own bracket pool and squares pages. This page covers college football's playoff in the winter.

College overtime has its own format, so set the rule ahead of time. The host chooses in the board's settings whether the last winner is the score at the end of regulation or the final score after overtime.
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