The college football bowl schedule has been set for this bowl season.
Not only is the College Football Playoff field set, but the New Year’s Six has been finalized, as well as the rest of the bowl season slate.
We learned the No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide will face the No. 4 Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the Rose Bowl and the No. 2 Clemson Tigers will play the No. 3 Ohio State Buckeyes in the Sugar Bowl as part of the College Football Playoff. Teams like the Cincinnati Bearcats, the Florida Gators, the Oregon Ducks and the Texas A&M Aggies ended up making it to New Year’s Six bowl games.
2020 college football bowl schedule
Dec. 21 – Myrtle Beach Bowl – 2:30 p.m. ET – ESPN: Appalachian State vs. North Texas
Dec. 22 – Famous Idaho Potato Bowl – 3:30 p.m. ET – ESPN: Tulane vs. Nevada
Dec. 22 – RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl – 7:00 p.m. ET – ESPN: UCF vs. BYU
Dec. 23 – R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl – 3:00 p.m. ET – ESPN: Louisiana Tech vs. Georgia Southern
Dec. 23 – Montgomery Bowl – 7:00 p.m. ET – ESPN: Memphis vs. Florida Atlantic
Dec. 24 – New Mexico Bowl – 3:30 p.m. ET – ESPN: Hawaii vs. Houston
Dec. 25 – Camellia Bowl – 2:30 p.m. ET – ESPN: Marshall vs. Buffalo
Dec. 26 – Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl – 12:00 p.m. ET – ABC: UAB vs. South Carolina
Dec. 26 – FBC Mortgage Cure Bowl – 12:00 p.m. ET – ESPN: Liberty vs. Coastal Carolina
Dec. 26 – SERVPRO First Responder Bowl – 3:30 p.m. ET – ABC: UTSA vs. Louisiana
Dec. 26 – LendingTree Bowl – 3:30 p.m. ET – ESPN: Western Kentucky vs. Georgia State
Dec. 29 – Cheez-It Bowl – 5:30 p.m. ET – ESPN: Miami vs. Oklahoma State
Dec. 29 – Valero Alamo Bowl – 9:00 p.m. ET – ESPN: Texas vs. Colorado
Dec. 30 – Duke’s Mayo Bowl – 12:00 p.m. ET – ESPN: Wake Forest vs. Wisconsin
Dec. 30 – TransPerfect Music City Bowl – 4:00 p.m. ET – ESPN: Missouri vs. Iowa
Dec. 30 – Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic – 8:00 p.m. ET – ESPN: Oklahoma vs. Florida
Dec. 31 – Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl – 12:00 p.m. ET – ESPN: Mississippi State vs. Tulsa
Dec. 31 – Arizona Bowl – 2:00 p.m. ET – ESPN: Ball State vs. San Jose State
Dec. 31 – AutoZone Liberty Bowl – 4:00 p.m. ET – ESPN: West Virginia vs. Tennessee
Dec. 31 – Mercari Texas Bowl – 8:00 p.m. ET – ESPN: TCU vs. Arkansas
Jan. 1 – Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl – 12:00 p.m. ET – ESPN: Cincinnati vs. Georgia
Jan. 1 – Vrbo Citrus Bowl – 1:00 p.m. ET – ABC: Auburn vs. Northwestern
Jan. 1 – Rose Bowl Game Presented by Capital One – CFP Semifinal – 4:00 p.m. ET – ESPN: Alabama vs. Notre Dame
Jan. 1 – Allstate Sugar Bowl – CFP Semifinal – 8:00 p.m. ET – ESPN: Clemson vs. Ohio State
Jan. 2 – TaxSlayer Gator Bowl – 12:00 p.m. ET – ESPN: North Carolina State vs. Kentucky
Jan. 2 – Outback Bowl – 12:30 p.m. ET – ABC: Indiana vs. Ole Miss
Jan. 2 – PlayStation Fiesta Bowl – 4:00 p.m. ET – ESPN: Oregon vs. Iowa State
Jan. 2 – Capital One Orange Bowl – 8:00 p.m. ET – ESPN: Texas A&M vs. North Carolina
Jan. 11 – CFP National Championship pres. by AT&T – 8:00 p.m. ET – ESPN: TBD
While it is a robust slate of bowl games, several bowl games were canceled this holiday season due to the coronavirus, as well as several Power 5 and Group of 5 teams opting out of playing another game this year. Simply put, if a team wanted to play a bowl game, they would have found a way to play in one of these games. We need to appreciate the allotment we have this year.
Which bowl games are you the most interested in watching this holiday season?
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