The new postseason format will create two national semifinals to be played New Year's Eve or New Year's Day, with the winners advancing.
The six bowls in the playoff rotation will host marquee, BCS-type games on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day during the seasons they do not host a semifinal.
"We deliver about 5, 000 babies a year and it's just as exciting every day, but a New Year's Day baby is really lovely for the parents, " she told BBC News.
Statistics from South East Coast Ambulance Service said there were 1, 544 calls between 22:00 GMT on New Year's Eve and 04:00 GMT on New Year's Day.
London 2012 volunteers are to take a curtain call with a starring role in the capital's New Year's Day Parade.
But London's New Year's Day Parade will go ahead, with organisers predicting that more than a million people will turn out to watch the parade.
On New Year's Day each year it was customary for the English of all walks of life to exchange personal gifts.
The only difference this time was the games were played on Jan. 2, not the traditional New Year's Day. (As is customary when New Year's falls on a Sunday.) Granted, it still could be worse.
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Meanwhile, neighbouring Carmarthenshire council is to offer free parking from Boxing Day to New Year's Day, but not before Christmas.
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"Without them we would have been closed on Christmas Day and New Year's Day if they hadn't been up and working, so they save us an awful lot of cleaning up, a lot of messing around, " he said.
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The network's promos for its New Year's Day Cotton Bowl telecast didn't even bother to mention either school (Boston College or Houston) playing in the game.
During the trial, the court heard that Geele broke into Mr Westergaard's house in Aarhus on New Year's Day 2010, smashing the door down.
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Father-of-three Ablett, who had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, died on New Year's Day.
Mr. Bloomberg's successor, who takes over New Year's Day, will inherit the spending plan.
That journey started the day he was born on New Year's day 1992, the same day George Graham's "boring, boring" Arsenal were held to a turgid 1-1 draw by Wimbledon and in the same year that England finished bottom of their Euro 92 group and started their fateful 1994 World Cup qualifying campaign.
Clinton's new budget authority took effect on New Year's Day, but his first real opportunity to use it could come later this year, when the new Congress begins to send him spending bills.
Yet the BHF's annual smoking statistics, also released on New Year's Day, indicate that more people worldwide die from smoking than from cancer.
Five babies were born at the South West's biggest hospital in the first five hours of New Year's Day.
There are even admonitions to avoid certain activities on New Year's Day because they portend bad luck for the coming year.
This was New Year's Day until the 18th Century, and the tax year got separated from it when we jumped 11 days switching to the Gregorian calendar in 1752.
One such superstition tells us that eating poultry on New Year's Day means you will financially struggle for the coming year, which I really wish I had known before I ate chicken with mixed vegetables on January 1.
Coronation Street actor William Roache , who has played Ken Barlow since the series began 40 years ago, also becomes an MBE, as does Trevor Harrison , known to millions of listeners as Eddie Grundy in Radio 4's The Archers, which celebrates 50 years on air on New Year's Day.
"Steve", as nurses at Birmingham's City Hospital have dubbed him, said he woke up on New Year's Day.
Emerson's dog, Ella -- who was with Emerson when she vanished on New Year's Day -- was in a garden area outside the sanctuary during the memorial service.
Its lead author was UCL's Seymour Laxon, the renowned polar scientist who tragically died following an accident on New Year's Day.
All these gifts were negotiated with, and presented to Lady Howard, keeper of the queen's wardrobe, whose sartorial guidance and approval was sought both before and after the New Year's Day present-giving.
James named the New Year's Day win over Sheffield as the crucial moment of the season.
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His only appearance this term came in a 2-2 draw with Carlisle on New Year's Day.
Tributes have been paid to a canoeist who died in Cornwall on New Year's Day.
Then, on New Year's Day, Blackstone Group 's deal to buy mortgage originator PHH was terminated.
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