<PRE>DATE TIME BOWL TEAMS LOCATION December 19th 11:00am ABC Celebration Alcorn State vs. North Carolina A&T Atlanta, GA | Georgia Dome December 19th 11:00am CBSSN Cure San Jose State vs. Georgia State Orlando, FL | Citrus Bowl December 19th 1:00pm ESPN New Mexico Arizona vs. New Mexico Albequerque, NM | University Stadium December 19th 2:30pm ABC Las Vegas BYU vs. (22)Utah Las Vegas, NV | Sam Boyd Stadium December 19th 4:30pm ESPN Camellia Ohio vs. Appalachian State Montgomery, AL | Cramton Bowl December 19th 8:00pm ESPN New Orleans Arkansas State vs. Louisiana Tech New Orleans, LA | Mercedes-Benz Superdome December 21st 1:30pm ESPN Miami Beach South Florida vs. Western Kentucky Miami, FL | Marlins Park December 22nd 2:30pm ESPN Potato Akron vs. Utah State Boise, ID | Albertsons Stadium December 22nd 6:00pm ESPN Boca Raton Toledo vs. (24)Temple Boca Raton, FL | FAU Stadium December 23rd 3:30pm ESPN Poinsettia Boise State vs. Northern Illinois San Diego, CA | Qualcomm Stadium December 23rd 7:00pm ESPN GoDaddy Bowling Green vs. Georgia Southern Mobile, AL | Ladd-Peebles Stadium December 24th 11:00am ESPN Bahamas Middle Tennessee vs. Western Michigan Nassau, Bahamas | Robinson National Stadium December 24th 7:00pm ESPN Hawaii Cincinnati vs. San Diego State Honolulu, HI | Aloha Stadium December 26th 10:00am ESPN St. Petersburg Connecticut vs. Marshall St. Petersburg, FL | Tropicana Field December 26th 1:00pm CBS Sun Miami vs. Washington State El Paso, TX | Sun Bowl December 26th 1:20pm ESPN Heart of Dallas Washington vs. Southern Miss Dallas, TX | Cotton Bowl December 26th 2:30pm ABC Pinstripe Indiana vs. Duke Bronx, NY | Yankee Stadium December 26th 4:45pm ESPN Independence Virginia Tech vs. Tulsa Shreveport, LA | Independence Stadium December 26th 8:15pm ESPN Foster Farms UCLA vs. Nebraska Santa Clara, CA | Levi's Stadium December 28th 1:30pm ESPN Military Pittsburgh vs. (21)Navy Annapolis, MD | Jack Stephens Field December 28th 4:00pm ESPN2 Quick Lane Central Michigan vs. Minnesota Detroit, MI | Ford Field December 29th 1:00pm ESPN Armed Forces Air Force vs. Cal Ft. Worth, TX | Amon G. Carter Stadium December 29th 4:30pm ESPN Russell Athletic (10)North Carolina vs. (17)Baylor Orlando, FL | Citrus Bowl December 29th 6:30pm CI Arizona Nevada vs. Colorado State Tucson, AZ | Arizona Stadium December 29th 8:00pm ESPN Texas Texas Tech vs. (20)LSU Houston, TX | NRG Stadium December 30th 11:00am ESPN Birmingham Memphis vs. Auburn Birmingham, AL | Legion Field December 30th 2:30pm ESPN Belk Mississippi State vs. NC State Charlotte, NC | Bank of America Stadium December 30th 6:00pm ESPN Music City Louisville vs. Texas A&M Nashville, TN | LP Field December 30th 9:30pm ESPN Holiday Wisconsin vs. (25)USC San Diego, CA | Qualcomm Stadium December 31st 11:00am ESPN Peach (9)Florida State vs. (18)Houston Atlanta, GA | Georgia Dome December 31st 3:00pm ESPN Orange (1)Clemson vs. (4)Oklahoma Miami Gardens, FL | Sun Life Stadium December 31st 7:00pm ESPN Cotton (2)Alabama vs. (3)Michigan State Arlington, TX | AT&T Stadium January 1st 11:00am ESPN2 Outback (13)Northwestern vs. (23)Tennessee Tampa, FL | Raymond James Stadium January 1st Noon ABC Citrus (14)Michigan vs. (19)Florida Orlando, FL | Citrus Bowl January 1st Noon ESPN Fiesta (7)Ohio State vs. (8)Notre Dame Glendale, AZ | University of Phoenix Stadium January 1st 4:00pm ESPN Rose (5)Iowa vs. (6)Stanford Pasadena, CA | Rose Bowl January 1st 7:30pm ESPN Sugar (12)Ole Miss vs. (16)Oklahoma State New Orleans, LA | Mercedes-Benz Superdome January 2nd 11:00am ESPN TaxSlayer Penn State vs. Georgia Jacksonville, FL | EverBank Field January 2nd 2:20pm ESPN Liberty Kansas State vs. Arkansas Memphis, TN | Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium January 2nd 5:45pm ESPN Alamo (11)TCU vs. (15)Oregon San Antonio, TX | Alamodome January 2nd 9:15pm ESPN Cactus West Virginia vs. Arizona State Phoenix, AZ | Chase Field January 11th 7:30pm ESPN CFP National Championship Glendale, AZ | University of Phoenix Stadium</PRE> All times Central
Love that 20 of the top-25 teams are matched up against each other. Is it weird that one of the playoff games is at 3pm on New Year's Eve? Wouldn't they want to put those games on New Year's Day when most people are off work?
Besides the traditional Sun Bowl matchup on CBS, all but two games are on ABC/ESPN. I've never even heard of those two before (CI Bowl and Cure Bowl).
Looking at the American fallout, seems Memphis got the best game against Auburn. I would not have wanted to play Pitt or Toledo, although u take anything when u are bowl eligible. Navy at home. Cincinnati gets a vacation in Hawaii though and that is a good deal.
Sorry, CI is Campus Insiders. CBSSN = CBS Sports Network ______________ MWC Commissioner Craig Thompson: 'The [bowl] system is broken'
ESPN approached CFP committee about changing the playoff game schedules but were shot down. Something about tradition of the current NY6 bowls like the Rose Bowl being on New Year's Day and not wanting to mess that up.
That sucks - January 2nd would have worked too, given that it's a Saturday. And it would set the stage after all the "lesser" bowls. I can't imagine bowls like the TaxSlayer or Cactus Bowl have any power to resist there.
That was one of the proposals that was shot down. Just imagining how future playoff games will be scheduled when they expand to 8.
@ClayTravisBGID: The cheapest upper deck tickets for the college football title game will have a $450 face value.
I know most on here probably don't care about the Utah/BYU bowl game but I can't wait. The Holy War in Sin City. Honestly one of the best bowl games this year.
^^^ <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Holy War is sold out: All 38,500 tickets sold for BYU-Utah Vegas Bowl</p>— Brett McMurphy (@McMurphyESPN) <a href="https://twitter.com/McMurphyESPN/status/673951037061918720">December 7, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The Polynesian presence in Vegas will triple that weekend with all the extended families making the trip. Should be fun.
I'm excited about playing a top 10 team that played #1 down to the wire while being hosed on an onside kick recovery. UNC is a damn good team.