List of college bowl games#College Football Playoff games

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Six major bowl games, known as the New Year's Six, rotate the hosting of the two semifinal games which determine the teams that play in the final College Football Playoff National Championship game.{{cite news |url=https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2016-12-04/college-football-bowls-new-years-six-matchups-announced |title=College football bowls: New Year's Six matchups announced |last=Cooper |first=Ryan |publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association |date=2016-12-04 |access-date=2016-12-18}} The New Year's Six includes six of the ten oldest bowl games (missing the Sun, Gator, Citrus and Liberty bowls), continuing their original history of pitting the very best teams in the country against each other. These six games focus on the top 12 teams in the rankings, with only five teams ranked lower than 12th (all five were still ranked in the top 20) having ever played in the New Year's Six since the College Football Playoff system was inaugurated.

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^ The Rose Bowl did not add a sponsor to its name until the 1998 season. Unlike other bowls, which give the sponsor's name precedence ahead of the bowl's name (effectively changing the title of the game), the Rose Bowl adds the sponsor as "presented by", after the words Rose Bowl.

{{asterisk}} Two-time move, due to World War II travel restrictions after the attack on Pearl Harbor moving the 1942 game to Duke Stadium in Durham, NC, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic moving the 2021 game to AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX.

† One-time move, due to damage to the Superdome from Hurricane Katrina, moving the 2006 game to the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, GA.

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Besides the six bowl games that are part of the College Football Playoff, there are a number of other postseason invitationals. Generally, two conferences will agree to send teams of a particular standing to a game beforehand. For instance, the Rose Bowl traditionally features the Big Ten and Pac-12 conference champions. Generally, the payout to the participating teams in a bowl game is closely correlated to its prestige. By comparison, each of the former BCS bowls (including the national championship game) had a payout of $18 million.

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NOTE: These games are similar to the National Invitation Tournament in Division I college basketball, for teams in conferences that did not make the NCAA Division II tournament.

Additionally, NCAA Division III is home to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl (1973–2019; was played in Salem, Virginia). NCAA awarded the 2020 and 2021 games to Canton, OH; the 2022 game to Navy-Marine Corp Stadium; the 2023 to Salem, VA; the 2024 game to Humble, TX; and the 2025 game back to Canton. In contrast to other bowl games, the Stagg Bowl operates within the NCAA tournament structure rather than as a stand-alone post-season game; it serves as the Division III national championship game to conclude a 32-team post-season playoff.

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The NAIA's national championship game (which is the conclusion of a 16 team playoff) is currently not named as a bowl, but has held a bowl name in the past. Additionally, from 1970 to 1996, NAIA football was split into two divisions and held a separate tournaments and championships for both divisions; the Division II championship was never named a bowl and as such the past names listed below do not apply to the Division II championship game.

Football teams that are a part of the NCCAA may also be members of the NCAA, NAIA, or of neither. Bids to the Victory Bowl are given to NCCAA teams that did not make the NCAA or NAIA playoffs and is treated as the NCCAA Championship Game, but follows no playoff itself.

The number of bowl games have risen steadily, reaching 41 (including the national championship game) by the 2015 bowl season. To fill the 80 available bowl slots, a record 15 teams with non-winning seasons participated in bowl games—including three with a record of 5–7. This situation led directly to the NCAA Division I Council imposing a three-year moratorium on new bowl games in April 2016.{{cite news|url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/15181015/ncaa-approves-three-year-moratorium-new-bowl-games |title=NCAA approves three-year halt to new bowl games |first=Brett |last=McMurphy |publisher=ESPN |date=April 11, 2016 |access-date=April 11, 2016}}

Since 2010, organizers and boosters have continued to propose other bowl games—some of these proposals have since been dropped, while others are active proposals that have been placed on hold during the NCAA moratorium.

Two proposed games, the Cure Bowl and Christmas Bowl, were turned down by the NCAA for 2010.{{cite web|last=Keeley |first=Sean |url=http://www.nunesmagician.com/2010/4/23/1439809/what-the-hell-was-the-cure-bowl |title=What The Hell Was The Cure Bowl & The Christmas Bowl? |publisher=Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician |date=2010-04-23 |access-date=2012-12-03}} The Cure Bowl was eventually added in 2014, for the 2015 bowl season.

In August 2013, the Detroit Lions announced that it would hold a new bowl game at Ford Field beginning in 2014, holding Big Ten and Atlantic Coast Conference tie-ins, despite the existence of the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl.{{cite web|title=Report: Detroit Lions to host bowl game with Big Ten tie-in, Pizza Bowl getting dumped|url=http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2013/05/report_detroit_lions_to_host_b.html|website=MILive.com|date=21 May 2013|access-date=27 August 2014}}{{cite web|title=Detroit Lions announce agreement with ACC for Bowl Game at Ford Field|url=http://www.detroitlions.com/news/article-1/Detroit-Lions-announce-agreement-with-ACC-for-Bowl-Game-at-Ford-Field/af0c8a1f-5fde-4950-aa0a-52e4160780bf|website=detroitlions.com|access-date=27 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129024009/http://www.detroitlions.com/news/article-1/Detroit-Lions-announce-agreement-with-ACC-for-Bowl-Game-at-Ford-Field/af0c8a1f-5fde-4950-aa0a-52e4160780bf|archive-date=29 November 2014|url-status=dead}} While Pizza Bowl organizers attempted to move the game to Comerica Park (a baseball stadium across the street from Ford Field), these plans never came to fruition.{{cite web|title=Little Caesars Pizza Bowl at Ford Field canceled|url=http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20140819/NEWS/140819815/little-caesars-pizza-bowl-at-ford-field-canceled|website=Crain's Detroit Business|date=19 August 2014|access-date=27 August 2014}}{{cite news|title=Little Caesars Pizza Bowl organizers open to playing outside; Detroit Lions bowl interest confirmed|url=http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/detroit/index.ssf/2013/05/little_caesars_pizza_bowls_geo.html|access-date=27 August 2014|agency=MILive.com}} In August 2014, the Lions announced that the new game would be known as the Quick Lane Bowl, and play its inaugural game on December 26, 2014. In a statement to Crain's Detroit Business, Motor City Bowl co-founder Ken Hoffman confirmed that there would be no Little Caesars Pizza Bowl for 2014.{{cite news|title=Quick Lane Bowl Announced|url=http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/082614aaa.html|access-date=27 August 2014|publisher=Big Ten Conference|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129021151/http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/082614aaa.html|archive-date=29 November 2014|url-status=dead}}

In June 2013, ESPN.com reported that the so-called "Group of Five" conferences—the American Athletic Conference, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West Conference, and Sun Belt Conference—were considering adding one or more new bowl games once the NCAA's current moratorium on new bowls expires after the 2013 season. This move was driven by a trend for the "Power Five" conferences (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, and SEC) to play one another in bowl games. The 2013 season, the last of the current four-year bowl cycle, will have 16 bowls that involve two teams from "Power Five" leagues. The 2014 season, the first of a new six-year bowl cycle, will have at least 19, and possibly more, matchups of "Power Five" teams. The "Group of Five" was apparently concerned that this trend would mean that its teams might not have available bowl slots.

According to reports, the 2010 Christmas Bowl proposal would have involved a Mountain West team against an opponent from either the Pac-12 or The American. As for The American, it has suggested a new bowl game, most likely at Marlins Park in Miami. Two other venues of "Group of Five" schools in Florida—Spectrum Stadium (UCF, Orlando) and FAU Stadium (Florida Atlantic, Boca Raton)—are being considered for other potential bowls. A possible bowl in Little Rock would pit C-USA and the Sun Belt. Finally, the director of the current Little Caesars Bowl indicated that he had been in contact with officials from all of the "Group of Five" about starting new bowl games in Ireland (most likely Dublin), Dubai, and either Toronto or Nassau. Recently, though, reports have indicated the proposed games in Ireland and Dubai would be unworkable.{{cite web|url = http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/jeremy-fowler/23133792/careful-bowl-games-you-could-be-without-a-team|title = Careful, bowl games: You could be without a team|date = August 13, 2013|access-date = September 6, 2013|website = CBS Sports|last = Fowler|first = Jimmy}}

The first new bowl to be confirmed for 2014 was the Camellia Bowl, a game created by ESPN and played in Montgomery, Alabama. It secured tie-ins with the MAC and Sun Belt, and an initial contract to run through the 2019 season. ESPN was also reported to be in negotiations to take over ownership of the existing Heart of Dallas Bowl and establish a new bowl game in Boca Raton.{{cite news|last=McMurphy|first=Brett|title=Bowl created for MAC, Sun Belt|work=ESPN.com|url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/9581531/espn-creates-bowl-mac-sun-belt-teams|access-date=August 20, 2013|date=August 19, 2013}}

Another ownership group interested in starting a Montgomery-based bowl at New ASU Stadium reportedly switched focus to Charleston, South Carolina. In the face of obstacles related to an NCAA ban on playing postseason games at predetermined locations in South Carolina due to the Confederate battle flag being flown at a civil war monument on the State House grounds, the ownership group instead chose to stage the Medal of Honor Bowl all-star game at Johnson Hagood Stadium beginning in 2014.{{cite news|url = http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20130810/PC16/130819924/1009/new-effort-to-bring-bowl-game-to-charleston-faces-familiar-obstacles-confederate-flag-naacp-ncaa&source=RSS|title = New effort to bring bowl game to Charleston faces familiar obstacles: Confederate flag, NAACP, NCAA|access-date = September 6, 2013|date = August 10, 2013|newspaper = Post and Courier|last = Hartsell|first = Jeff}} However, with the Confederate flag's removal from the State House grounds on July 10, 2015, the NCAA lifted its ban that day.{{cite web | url=https://www.ncaa.com/news/ncaa/article/2015-07-10/statement-ncaa-president-removal-confederate-flag-south-carolina | title=Statement from NCAA president on removal of Confederate flag in South Carolina | publisher=NCAA | date=July 10, 2015 | access-date=July 13, 2015 | author=Emmert, Mark}} As such, on August 27 of that year, the Medal of Honor Bowl announced their plans to become a traditional postseason bowl game beginning on December 18, 2016, pending NCAA approval. The all-star game format was not played that year as a result.{{cite news | url=http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150827/PC20/150829431 | title=Medal of Honor Bowl now a 'traditional' bowl game | work=The Post and Courier | date=August 27, 2015 | access-date=August 29, 2015 | author=Hartsell, Jeff}} However, in April 2016, the NCAA announced a moratorium on new bowl games; organizers had subsequently announced plans to hold the bowl (as an all-star game again) in January 2018;{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11142247/medal_of_honor_bowl_on_hold/ |title=Medal of Honor Bowl on hold |newspaper=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |date=September 15, 2016 |access-date=May 20, 2017 |via=newspapers.com}} however, no further editions of the Medal of Honor Bowl have been played.

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* Bowl is a College Football Playoff semifinal, once every three seasons, in rotation under current CFP format

All-star games predominantly featuring players from the FBS-level (or historical equivalents, such as Division I-A).{{cite news|last1=Mahler|first1=Melissa|last2=Draft Insider|title=Is the College Football ALL-STAR Game Pecking Order Shifting? |url=http://proplayerinsiders.com/nfl-player-team-news-features/melissa-mahleris-the-college-football-all-star-games-pecking-order-shifting/|access-date=October 28, 2014|work=Pro Player Insiders|date=September 5, 2014 }}

• Black and Blue Bowl – Memphis and Southern Miss
• Empire State Bowl – Columbia and Cornell
• Confusion Bowl – Miami (OH) and Miami (FL)
• Crab Bowl Classic – Maryland and Navy
• Egg Bowl – Ole Miss and Mississippi State
• Iron Bowl – Alabama and Auburn
• Magnolia Bowl – LSU and Ole Miss
• Oyster Bowl - Old Dominion and rotating teams
• Palmetto Bowl – Clemson and South Carolina
• Safeway Bowl – North Texas and SMU
• Shula Bowl – FIU and Florida Atlantic
• Soul Bowl – Alcorn State and Jackson State
• Textile Bowl – Clemson and North Carolina State

• Aztec Bowl – Mexico (1950–53, 1955, 1957, 1964–66, 1970–71, 1971–80, 1984, 1986–present)
• Bacardi Bowl – seven exhibition games played in Havana, Cuba, from 1907 to 1946
• International Bowl – bowl game played in Toronto, Canada, from 2007 to 2010
• Bahamas Bowl – currently played bowl game in Nassau, Bahamas, since 2014.

• C.H.A.M.P.S. Heart of Texas Bowl – Copperas Cove, Texas
• Game One Bowl – Cedar Falls, Iowa (formerly Coca-Cola Bowl, Like Cola Bowl, Royal Crown Bowl, Pepsi-Cola/Sigler Printing Bowl, The Graphic Edge Bowl). This bowl is a doubleheader with the Iowa runner-up playing in the first game and the Iowa champion in the second. The opponents for each game are chosen at-large.
• Mississippi Bowl – Biloxi, Mississippi
• Midwest Classic Bowl – Miami, Oklahoma
• Red Grange Bowl – Glen Ellyn, Illinois
• Salt City Bowl – Hutchinson, Kansas

• Beef Empire Classic – Garden City, Kansas
• Brazos Valley Bowl – Bryan, Texas
• Carrier Dome Bowl – Syracuse, New York
• Citizens Bank Bowl – Pittsburg, Kansas. Known in its last season as the Football Capital of Kansas Bowl. Hosted 2009 National Junior College Athletic Association National Championship game between Blinn and Fort Scott, which featured future NFL stars Cam Newton and Lavonte David.
• Dalton Defenders Bowl – Coffeyville, Kansas
• Dixie Rotary Bowl – St. George, Utah
• East Bowl – rotating site among Coastal Conference schools
• El Toro Bowl – Yuma, Arizona
• Empire State Bowl – Uniondale, New York
• Garland Texas Bowl – Garland, Texas
• Gold Bowl – Richmond, Virginia
• Golden Isles Bowl – Brunswick, Georgia
• Grenn Country Bowl – Tahlequah, Oklahoma
• Junior Rose Bowl – Pasadena, California
• Kansas Jayhawk Bowl Classic – Coffeyville, Kansas
• Mid-America Bowl – Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Midwest Bowl – rotating site among North Central Community College Conference schools
• Mineral Water Bowl – Excelsior Springs, Missouri
• Mississippi Magnolia Bowl – MACJC Championship game, rotating site
• North Star Bowl – Rochester, Minnesota
• Palm Bowl – McAllen, Texas
• Pilgrim's Pride Bowl – Mt. Pleasant, Texas
• Real Dairy Bowl – Pocatello, Idaho
• Red River Bowl – Bedford, Texas
• Refrigerator Bowl – Evansville, Indiana
• Roaring Ranger Bowl – Ranger, Texas
• Robert A. Bothman Bulldog Bowl – San Mateo, California
• Rodeo Bowl – Arkansas City, Kansas
• Sterling Silver Bowl – Sterling, Kansas
• Texas Shrine Bowl – Tyler, Texas
• Top of the Mountain Bowl – Sandy, Utah
• Valley of the Sun Bowl – rotating site in Maricopa County, Arizona
• Wool Bowl – Roswell, New Mexico
• Zia Bowl – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Source: NJCAA{{cite web |title=NJCAA Football Record Book |url=https://d2o2figo6ddd0g.cloudfront.net/9/k/16mdlmin31fc3e/FOOT_Record_Book_-_2019_Preseason_1.pdf |publisher=National Junior College Athletic Association |access-date=September 28, 2020 |pages=6–11 |date=2019}}

• Camellia Bowl – Sacramento, California (1980)
• Heritage Bowl – Atlanta, Georgia (1991–1999)
• Pioneer Bowl – Wichita Falls, Texas (1978, 1981–1982)
• Gridiron Classic – rotating locations (2006–2009)
• ECAC Bowl – rotating locations (1993–2003)

• Bicentennial Bowl – Richmond, Virginia (1976)
• Boardwalk Bowl – Atlantic City, New Jersey (1973)
• Camellia Bowl – Sacramento, California (1973–1975)
• Dixie Rotary Bowl – Saint George, Utah (2006–2008)
• Gold Bowl – Richmond, Virginia (1977–1980)
• Grantland Rice Bowl – Murfreesboro, Tennessee & Baton Rouge, Louisiana (1973–1977)
• Heart of Texas Bowl – Copperas Cove, Texas & Waco, Texas (2012–2018)
• Kanza Bowl – Topeka, Kansas (2009–2012)
• Knute Rockne Bowl – Akron, Ohio & Davis, California (1976–1977)
• Live United Texarkana Bowl – Texarkana, Arkansas (2013–2023)
• Mineral Water Bowl – Excelsior Springs, Missouri (2000–2019)
• Pioneer Bowl – various locations as a playoff game (1973–1977)
• Pioneer Bowl – various locations as a bowl between HBCU teams (1997–2012)
• Poultry Bowl – Gainesville, Georgia (1973), Greensboro, North Carolina (1974)

• Oyster Bowl – Norfolk, Virginia (at various times in its history a Division I bowl game, a Division III bowl game and, currently, a regular season game)
• ECAC Presidents Bowl - New Britain, Connecticut (2015) and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2016)
• ECAC Legacy Bowl - New Britain, Connecticut (2015) and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2016)
• New York State Bowl - Campus Sites (2017-2019)

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• All-Sports Bowl - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (1961–1964)
• Bicentennial Bowl - Little Rock, Arkansas (1975)
• Boot Hill Bowl - Dodge City, Kansas (1970–1980)
• Cowboy Bowl - Lawton, Oklahoma (1971–1972)
• Great Southwest Bowl - Grand Prairie, Texas (1960)
• Share Bowl - Knoxville, Tennessee (1971)
• Shrine Bowl - Ardmore, Oklahoma (1972)
• Sunflower Bowl - Winfield, Kansas (1982–1986)
• Wheat Bowl - Ellinwood, Kansas, Great Bend, Kansas (1995–2006), Pre-season NAIA bowl[http://football.victorysportsnetwork.com/fb/wheatbowlinfo/wheatbowl.php The Nation's Home for NAIA Football] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080503225937/http://football.victorysportsnetwork.com/fb/wheatbowlinfo/wheatbowl.php |date=2008-05-03 }}

• Bids to college bowl games

Notes

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Further reading

• {{cite book

| last = Oriard

| first = Michael

| year = 2009

| title = Bowled Over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era

| publisher = The University of North Carolina Press

| isbn = 978-0-8078-3329-2

}}

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