2025 Orange Bowl Teams. The cotton bowl will host (8) ohio state and (5) texas, while (6) penn state and (7) notre dame will travel to the orange bowl with a spot in the national championship game on the line. Now that we have 12 teams in the playoffs this postseason, the new year’s six bowls are split out across the four quarterfinal and two semifinal games.

How to watch the orange bowl 2025? Watch the orange bowl when it airs live from hard rock stadium in miami on thursday, january 9, 2025 at 7:30pm et on espn.