College football bowl games 2021: Picking the winner for every bowl game, including the National Championship
By John Buhler
It’s bowl season and there are dozens of college football games to watch and enjoy.
The college football season might almost be over, but bowl season is about to begin.
Conference champions have been crowned. The College Football Playoff field has been set. While the always interesting coaching carousel continues to make one crazy revolution after another into madness, bowl season will be here in only a handful of days. No matter the game, the location or the opponent, congratulations to these kids for getting to play in a bowl game this season.
Here is the college football bowl season schedule and the winner of each game bolded.
College football bowl schedule 2021: Picking the winner of every bowl game
Bahamas Bowl (Friday, Dec. 17, 12:00 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Middle Tennessee vs. Toledo
Tailgreeter Cure Bowl (Friday, Dec. 17, 6:00 p.m. ET, ESPN2)
- Coastal Carolina vs. Northern Illinois
RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl (Saturday, Dec. 18, 11:00 a.m. ET, ESPN)
- Western Kentucky vs. Appalachian State
Cricket Celebration Bowl (Saturday, Dec. 18, 12:00 p.m. ET, ABC)
- South Carolina State vs. Jackson State
PUBG New Mexico Bowl (Saturday, Dec. 18, 2:15 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- UTEP vs. Fresno State
Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl (Saturday, Dec. 18, 3:30 p.m. ET, ABC)
- UAB vs. BYU
LendingTree Bowl (Saturday, Dec. 18, 5:45 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Liberty vs. Eastern Michigan
Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl (Saturday, Dec. 18, 7:30 p.m. ET, ABC)
- Utah State vs. Oregon State
R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl (Saturday, Dec. 18, 9:15 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Marshall vs. Louisiana
Myrtle Beach Bowl (Monday, Dec. 20, 2:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Tulsa vs. Old Dominion
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl (Tuesday, Dec. 21, 3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Kent State vs. Wyoming
Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl (Tuesday, Dec. 21, 7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- UTSA vs. San Diego State
Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl (Wednesday, Dec. 22, 7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Missouri vs. Army
Frisco Bowl Classic (Thursday, Dec. 23, 3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Miami (OH) vs. North Texas
Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl (Thursday, Dec. 23, 7:00 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- UCF vs. Florida
EasyPost Hawaii Bowl (Friday, Dec. 24, 8:00 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Memphis vs. Hawaii
Camelia Bowl (Saturday, Dec. 25, 2:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Ball State vs. Georgia State
Quick Lake Bowl (Monday, Dec. 27, 11:00 a.m. ET, ESPN)
- Nevada vs. Western Michigan
Military Bowl presented by Peraton (Monday, Dec. 27, 2:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- East Carolina vs. Boston College
TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl (Tuesday, Dec. 28, 12:00 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Houston vs. Auburn
SERVPRO First Responder Bowl (Tuesday, Dec. 28, 3:15 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Air Force vs. Louisville
AutoZone Liberty Bowl (Tuesday, Dec. 28, 6:45 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Texas Tech vs. Mississippi State
San Diego County Credit Union Holiday Bowl (Tuesday, Dec. 28, 8:00 p.m. ET, FOX)
- North Carolina State vs. UCLA
Guaranteed Rate Bowl (Tuesday, Dec. 28, 10:15 p.m. ET, FOX)
- West Virginia vs. Minnesota
Wasabi Fenway Bowl (Wednesday, Dec. 29, 11:00 a.m. ET, ESPN)
- Virginia vs. SMU
New Era Pinstripe Bowl (Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2:15 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Virginia Tech vs. Maryland
Cheez-It Bowl (Wednesday, Dec. 29, 5:45 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Clemson vs. Iowa State
Valero Alamo Bowl (Wednesday, Dec. 29, 9:15 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Oklahoma vs. Oregon
Duke’s Mayo Bowl (Thursday, Dec. 30, 11:30 a.m. ET, ESPN)
- North Carolina vs. South Carolina
TransPerfect Music City Bowl (Thursday, Dec. 30, 3:00 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Purdue vs. Tennessee
SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl (Thursday, Dec. 30, 10:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Wisconsin vs. Arizona State
TaxSlayer Gator Bowl (Friday, Dec. 31, 11:00 a.m. ET, ESPN)
- Wake Forest vs. Texas A&M
Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl (Friday, Dec. 31, 12:30 p.m. ET, CBS)
- Miami vs. Washington State
Barstool Sports Arizona Bowl (Friday, Dec. 31, 2:00 p.m. ET, Barstool Sports)
- Central Michigan vs. Boise State
Outback Bowl (Saturday, Jan. 1, 12:00 p.m. ET, ESPN2)
- Penn State vs. Arkansas
Vrbo Citrus Bowl (Saturday, Jan. 1, 1:00 p.m. ET, ABC)
- Iowa vs. Kentucky
Mercari Texas Bowl (Tuesday, Jan. 4, 9:00 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Kansas State vs. LSU
New Year’s Six Bowl Schedule
Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl (Thursday, Dec. 30, 7:00 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Michigan State vs. Pittsburgh
Playstation Fiesta Bowl (Saturday, Jan. 1, 1:00 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Notre Dame vs. Oklahoma State
Rose Bowl Game (Saturday, Jan. 1, 5:00 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Ohio State vs. Utah
Allstate Sugar Bowl (Saturday, Jan. 1, 8:45 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Baylor vs. Ole Miss
College Football Playoff Schedule
Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic (Friday, Dec. 31, 3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Alabama vs. Cincinnati
Capital One Orange Bowl (Friday, Dec. 31, 7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)
- Michigan vs. Georgia
College Football Playoff National Championship presented by AT&T (Monday, Jan. 10, ESPN, 8:00 p.m. ET)
- Alabama vs. Georgia
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