2024-25 bowl games
SEC officiating crew assigned to the National Championship
This year’s crew also worked the Fiesta Bowl
The expanded playoffs have lead to a level-up assignment procedure for the Semifinal and National Championship games. After the first eight games were played, the crews for the final three games were determined.
All playoff games in the bowl subdivision are officiated by Power conference crews — ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, and SEC. All crew assignments are made in coordination with the College Football Playoff administration.
The Semifinal crews were announced last week, but the Championship crew was not. The assignment would go to one of the higher ranked playoff crews, but a crew could not work a game with a team from the same conference.
This leaves the SEC as the odd conference out, as the ACC and Big 12 worked the semifinal round and the Ohio State Buckeyes locked out a Big Ten crew from working. The SEC has never sent an officiating crew to the National Championship since the dawn of the CFP era in 2015; all other Power conference officials, including the Pac-12, have been assigned at least twice.
The SEC crew, with the exception of the alternate official, is the same crew that worked the Fiesta Bowl.
National Championship Game
⁸Ohio State vs. ⁷Notre Dame
Mercedes-Benz Stadium – Atlanta | 7:30 p.m. ESPN ESPN+
| Officials | SEC | |
|---|---|---|
| R | Steve Marlowe | ═★═ CC |
| U | Brent Sowell | ★ CC |
| H | Chad Green | ★ MDP PRO CC |
| L | Jeremiah Harris | MDP PRO CC |
| F | Phillip Davenport | ═★═ CC |
| S | Justin Larrew | ═★═ MDP PRO CC |
| B | Keith Parham | CC |
| C | Jason McArthur | ★ CC |
| ALT | David Smith | ★ |
| RO | John Allmond | ★ CC |
| CO | Bryan Greenwood | ★ CC |
- ═★═ 2023-24 New Year’s Six or National Championship Game official
- ★ 2023-24 bowl game official
- MDP Mackie Development Program official, the NFL’s development and training pipeline
- PRO XFL, USFL, or UFL official (2022-24)
- CC 2024 playoff assignment and conference championship assignment
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Anonymous
January 12, 2025 at 10:52 pm
Steve Marlowe is a damn good official.
David Steinle
January 13, 2025 at 7:45 am
First time an SEC crew has officiated a CFP championship game, and the first time for the SEC officiating any championship game since the Orange Bowl following the 2004 season.
The ACC was also ineligible to officiate the championship game with Notre Dame playing. As part of their contract with the conference, the Fighting Irish must use ACC officials to call its games against conference teams, whether it be in South Bend or an ACC stadium. Additionally, ACC officials call Notre Dame road games vs. non-ACC teams (this year vs. Navy and USC).
Buckeye Fan
January 13, 2025 at 4:29 pm
I’m new to this. What do the symbols to the right of the Officials names mean?
Anonymous
January 13, 2025 at 7:49 pm
They provide an explanation here: https://www.footballzebras.com/2025/01/acc-and-big-12-officiating-crews-draw-the-semifinal-assignments/
Anonymous
January 15, 2025 at 7:08 pm
Yep, for obvious reasons, SEC has not done the championship. Closest that I remember was Ken Williamson having the Clemson v Ohio State semi-final that I believe was the year LSU and Joe Burrow won it. He had those two replay calls and both went Clemson’s way. Drove OSU fans crazy.