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Posted on 12/05/2021 10:54:13 AM PST by blam
Bowl Season is here.
This year’s bowl season includes 42 games between FBS teams. A total of 84 bowl-eligible schools will participate in the postseason.
The College Football Playoff championship game is Jan. 10 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The semifinals are Dec. 31 at the Capital One Orange Bowl and Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic. The NCAA approved one last bowl game this week so all teams could participate.
Sporting News will track those selections Sunday:
College football bowl schedule 2021-22
Date Bowl Time TV MATCHUP
Dec. 17 Bahamas Bowl 12 p.m. ESPN -
Dec. 17 Cure Bowl 6 p.m. ESPN2 -
Dec. 18 RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl 11 a.m. ESPN -
Dec. 18 New Mexico Bowl 2:15 p.m ESPN -
Dec. 18 Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl 3:30 p.m. ABC -
Dec. 18 Lendingtree Bowl 5:45 p.m. ESPN -
Dec. 18 Los Angeles Bowl 7:30 pm. ABC -
Dec. 18 R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl 9:15 p.m. ESPN -
Dec. 20 Myrtle Beach Bowl 2:30 p.m. ESPN -
Dec. 21 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl 3:30 p.m. ESPN -
Dec. 21 Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl 7:30 p.m. ESPN -
Dec. 22 Armed Forces Bowl 8 p.m. ESPN -
Dec. 23 Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl 7 p.m. ESPN -
Dec. 24 Hawai'i Bowl 8 p.m. ESPN Hawaii vs. Memphis
Dec. 25 Camellia Bowl 2:30 p.m. ESPN -
Dec. 27 Quick Lane Bowl 11 a.m. ESPN -
Dec. 27 Military Bowl 2:30 p.m. ESPN -
Dec. 28 TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl 12 p.m. ESPN -
Dec. 28 First Responder Bowl 3:15 p.m. ESPN -
Dec. 28 AutoZone Liberty Bowl 6:45 p.m. ESPN -
Dec. 28 Holiday Bowl 8 p.m. FOX/FS1 -
Dec. 28 Guaranteed Rate Bowl 10:15 p.m. ESPN -
Dec. 29 Fenway Bowl 11 a.m. ESPN -
Dec. 29 Pinstripe Bowl 2:15 p.m. ESPN -
Dec. 29 Cheez-It Bowl 5:45 p.m. ESPN -
Dec. 29 Valero Alamo Bowl 9:15 p.m. ESPN -
Dec. 30 Duke's Mayo Bowl 11:30 a.m. ESPN -
Dec. 30 Transperfect Music City Bowl 3 p.m. ESPN -
Dec. 30 SRS Las Vegas Bowl 10:30 p.m. ESPN -
Dec. 31 TaxSlayer Gator Bowl 11 a.m. ESPN -
Dec. 31 Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl 2 p.m. CBS -
Dec. 31 Arizona Bowl 4:30 p.m. Barstool -
Jan. 1 Outback Bowl 12 p.m. ESPN2 -
Jan. 1 Vrbo Citrus Bowl 1 p.m. ABC -
Jan. 4 Texas Bowl 9 p.m. ESPN -
TBD Extra Bowl Game TBD TBD -
New Year's Day 6 bowl schedule
Date Bowl Time TV MATCHUP
Dec. 30 Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl 7 p.m. ESPN -
Jan. 1 PlayStation Fiesta Bowl 1 p.m. ESPN -
Jan. 1 Rose Bowl Game 5 p.m. ESPN -
College Football Playoff schedule
Dec. 31 Capital One Orange Bowl (semifinal) 3:30/7:30 p.m. ESPN No. 2 Michigan vs. No. 3 Georgia
Dec. 31 Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic (semifinal) 3:30/7:30 p.m. ESPN No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 4 Cincinnati
Jan. 10 College Football Playoff championship 8 p.m. ESPN TBD
Yes, there are too many, but they all bring a profit to those involved.
The sponsors make money, the teams make money (and bragging rights that they were in a bowl game), and the networks make money.
Plus, the teams get to travel to locations they may not normally go.
Until those involved stop making money from bowl games, we will continue to have a large number of them.
Alabama 45 Cincinnati 7
Did it get cancelled.
Alabama - Cincinnati could be ugly. Bu this is what Cincinnati wanted and earned.
I also remember the Sun Bowl, the Liberty Bowl, and the Gator Bowl from back in the day. But the Big 4 were always the Cotton, Orange, Sugar, and Rose.
It looks like a bowl of .....
The Fenway Bowl? At Fenway Park? Not familiar with that one.
It is actually the Wasabi Fenway Bowl Game. New this year.
CBS is projecting
Boston College vs. Houston
Atlantic Coast Conference vs the American Athletic Conference
The Allstate Sugar Bowl at Caesars Superdome! New Orleans.
1/1/22
#8 Ole Miss vs #6 Baylor
So what happened to the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans?
Did it get cancelled.
Nope, just missing from the list.
1/1/2022 Sugar Bowl New Orleans, LA
Projeted: Baylor Mississippi
Ahhh, the YAM Bowl! Can hardly wait.
Earned?...subjectively.
I predict that Amazon Prime is going to have a lot of games on their streaming service and they will probably outbid ESPN to get them.
SPUDS!
The Sugar Bowl is not on this list.
A few weeks ago I came out with a proposed structure for college football. Basically the 130 teams would be spread amongst 11 divisions.
The playoffs would consist of 22 teams, the first and second place teams in each division, with the division winners going directly to the Round of 16.
The 11 second place finishers would play in the First Round, with a Play-In Game between the two lowest seeded second place teams. Then the week after, the 5 First Round games would determine the Final Five teams to go to the Round of 16.
So based on the records and current poll standings this is how it would have shaken out:
Division Winners (First Round Bye)
Oregon
Utah
Oklahoma State
Baylor
Georgia
Alabama
Wake Forest
Clemson
Notre Dame
Michigan
Iowa
Second Place Teams and Seedings
First Round Games with higher seed hosting the game.
1 Ohio State
Winner of 11 Washington State vs 10 Appalachian State
2 Ole Miss
9 Wisconsin
3 BYU
8 Texas A&M
4 Oklahoma
7 Kentucky
5 Pitt
6 NC State
Then the 16 teams would be seeded and the Round of Sixteen would be played at the higher seed’s stadium
Then the Round of Eight is Played New Years Day at the Traditional Bowl Games:
Orange
Sugar
Cotton/Fiesta/Peach
Rose
Then the next week the National Semifinals and the week after The Championship Game
Astro Blue Bonnet Bowl.
Bama v. Michigan would be a more satisfying matchup since we’ve already seen who does what to whom when the Crimson Tide and the Bulldogs square off.
To be honest, I wouldn’t mind at all seeing Cincinnati take down Bama and then take on Michigan. A Midwest Melee.
Poulan Weedeater Bowl
Good one! +1 to you!
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