ESPN releases 2019-20 bowl game schedule, and there’s too many

The 2019 bowl schedule has been dropped by ESPN, and once again there are far more bowl games than America needs to see.

College football fans can begin to get hyped now that ESPN has released the full schedule of bowl games for the upcoming season. The slate is highlighted, as always, by the College Football Playoff semifinals on Dec. 28 and the national championship game on Jan. 13.

Here’s a full list of games, dates, times, and television networks.

Dec. 20

2 p.m.: Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl ESPN
7:30 p.m.: Frisco Bowl ESPN2

Dec. 21

noon: Celebration Bowl ABC
2:00 p.m.: New Mexico Bowl ESPN
3:30 p.m.: Cheribundi Boca Raton Bowl ABC
5:30 p.m.: Camellia Bowl ESPN
7:30 p.m.: Mitsubishi Motors Las Vegas Bowl ABC
9:00 p.m.: R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl ESPN

Dec. 23

2:30 p.m.: Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl ESPN

Dec. 24

8:00 p.m.: SoFi Hawai’i Bowl ESPN

Dec. 26

4:00 p.m.: Walk-On’s Independence Bowl ESPN
8:00 p.m.: Quick Lane Bowl ESPN

Dec. 27

noon: Military Bowl Presented by Northrop Grumman ESPN
3:20 p.m.: New Era Pinstripe Bowl ESPN
6:45 p.m.: Academy Sports + Outdoors Texas Bowl ESPN
10:15 p.m.: Cheez-It Bowl ESPN

Dec. 28

noon: Camping World Bowl ABC
noon: Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic ESPN
4 p.m. or 8 p.m. College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl ESPN
4 p.m. or 8 p.m.College Football Playoff Semifinal at the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl ESPN

Dec. 30

12:30 p.m.: SERVPRO First Responder Bowl ESPN
4:00 p.m.: Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl ESPN
8:00 p.m.: Capital One Orange Bowl ESPN

Dec. 31

noon: Belk Bowl ESPN
3:45 p.m.: AutoZone Liberty Bowl ESPN
7:30 p.m.: Valero Alamo Bowl ESPN

Jan. 1

1:00 p.m.: Citrus Bowl ABC
1:00 p.m.: Outback Bowl ESPN
5:00 p.m.: Rose Bowl Game Presented by Northwestern Mutual ESPN
8:45 p.m.: Allstate Sugar Bowl ESPN

Jan. 2

3:00 p.m.: Birmingham Bowl ESPN
7:00 p.m.: TaxSlayer Gator Bowl ESPN

Jan. 3

3:30 p.m. Famous Idaho Potato Bowl ESPN

Jan. 4

11:30 a.m.: Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl ESPN

Jan. 6

7:30 p.m.: Mobile Alabama Bowl ESPN

Jan. 13

8:00 p.m.: College Football Playoff National Championship ESPN

That is a lot of bowl games, and it’s worth mentioning that there are a whopping 15 coming between the College Football Playoff semifinals and the National Championship game.

About three of those games are appealing, and it’s just the latest sign that the country’s appetite for college football will never be too big.