College football bowl schedule: ESPN announces dates, times for 2017-18 bowl lineup

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ESPN announced the dates and times for all of its college football bowl games for the 2017-18 season Wednesday. 

The bowl season begins on Saturday, Dec. 16, with four games and continues through the College Football Playoff championship game on Monday, Jan. 8. The College Football Playoff semifinals are locked in for Monday, Jan. 1, with the Rose Bowl Game starting at 5 p.m. and the Allstate Sugar Bowl starting at 8:45 p.m. afterward.  

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Here are the dates and times for the bowl games that were announced: 

Saturday, Dec. 16

AFR Celebration Bowl, 12 p.m. (ABC)

R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl, 1 p.m. (ESPN) 

Las Vegas Bowl, 3:30 p.m. (ABC)

Gildan New Mexico Bowl, 4:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Raycom Media Camellia Bowl, 8 p.m. (ESPN) 

Tuesday, Dec. 19 

Boca Raton Bowl, 7 p.m. (ESPN) 

Thursday, Dec. 21 

St. Petersburg Bowl, 8 p.m. (ESPN) 

Friday, Dec. 22 

Bahamas Bowl, 12:30 p.m. (ESPN) 

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, 4 p.m. (ESPN) 

Saturday, Dec. 23 

Birmingham Bowl, 12 p.m. (ESPN) 

Lockheed Armed Forces Bowl, 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) 

Dollar General Bowl, 7 p.m. (ESPN) 

Sunday, Dec. 24

Hawai'i Bowl, 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) 

Tuesday, Dec. 26 

Zaxby's Heart of Dallas Bowl, TBD (ESPN) 

Quick Lane Bowl, TBD (ESPN) 

Cactus Bowl, TBD (ESPN) 

Wednesday, Dec. 27 

Independence Bowl, 1:30 p.m. (ESPN) 

New Era Pinstripe Bowl, 5:30 p.m. (ESPN) 

Texas Bowl, 9 p.m. (ESPN) 

Thursday, Dec. 28 

Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman, 1:30 p.m. (ESPN) 

Camping World Bowl, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) 

Valero Alamo Bowl, 9 p.m. (ESPN) 

Friday, Dec. 29

Belk Bowl, 1 p.m. (ESPN) 

Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl, 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) 

Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, 8 p.m. (ESPN) 

Saturday, Dec. 30 

Taxslayer Bowl, 12 p.m. (ESPN) 

Autozone Liberty Bowl, 12:30 p.m. (ABC) 

PlayStation Fiesta Bowl, 4 p.m. (ESPN) 

Capital One Orange Bowl, 8 p.m. (ESPN) 

Monday, Jan. 1 

Outback Bowl, 12 p.m. (ESPN2)

Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, 12:30 p.m. (ESPN) 

Citrus Bowl, 1 p.m. (ABC) 

Playoff semifinal: Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual, 5 p.m. (ESPN) 

Playoff semifinal: Allstate Sugar Bowl, 8:45 p.m. (ESPN) 

Monday, Jan. 8 

College Football Playoff National Championship Presented by AT&T

 

 


 

 

Bill Bender

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Bill Bender graduated from Ohio University in 2002 and started at The Sporting News as a fantasy football writer in 2007. He has covered the College Football Playoff, NBA Finals and World Series for SN. Bender enjoys story-telling, awesomely-bad 80s movies and coaching youth sports.