College football bowl schedule: Tracking the selections for all 41 bowl games in 2023-24

Bill Bender

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Bowl games are here. 

The 2023-24 college football regular season is over, and a total of 82 bowl-eligible teams will participate in the 2022-23 college football Bowl Season leading up to the College Football Playoff championship. 

Bowl Season starts on Dec. 16 with the Myrtle Beach Bowl and will run through Jan. 8. 

The College Football Playoff semifinals will be on Jan. 1, 2024. Those semifinals will be played at the Rose Bowl Game in Pasadena, Calif., and the Allstate Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. Those locations were the sites of the first four-team playoff in 2014. 

The College Football Playoff championship game is on Jan. 8 at NRG Stadium in Houston. These matchups were either reported by Action Network's Brett McMurphy or through official bowl announcements: 

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College Football Bowl Schedule 2023-24

Saturday, Dec. 16

Bowl Matchup Time (ET) TV
Myrtle Beach Bowl Ohio (9-3) vs. Georgia Southern (6-6) 11 a.m. ESPN
R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl Jacksonville State (8-4) vs. Louisiana (6-6) 2:15 p.m. ESPN
Avocados from Mexico Cure Bowl Appalachian State (8-5) vs. Miami, Ohio (11-2) 3:30 p.m. ABC
Isleta New Mexico Bowl New Mexico State (10-4) vs. Fresno State (8-4) 5:45 p.m. ESPN
LA Bowl hosted by Gronk Boise State (8-5) vs. UCLA (7-5) 7:30 p.m. ABC
Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl Texas Tech (6-6) vs. Cal (6-6) 9:15 p.m. ESPN

Monday, Dec. 18

Bowl Matchup Time (ET) TV
Famous Toastery Bowl Western Kentucky (7-5) vs. Old Dominion (6-6) 2:30 p.m. ESPN

Tuesday, Dec. 19

Bowl Matchup Time (ET) TV
Scooter's Coffee Frisco Bowl  UTSA (8-4) vs. Marshall (6-6) 9 p.m. ESPN

Thursday, Dec. 21

Bowl Matchup Time (ET) TV
RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl South Florida (6-6) vs. Syracuse (6-6) 8 p.m. ESPN

Friday, Dec. 22

Bowl Matchup Time (ET) TV
Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl Georgia Tech (6-6) vs. UCF (6-6) 6:30 p.m. ESPN

Saturday, Dec. 23

Bowl Matchup Time (ET) TV
76 Birmingham Bowl Troy (11-2) vs. Duke (7-5) 12 p.m. ABC
Camellia Bowl Northern Illinois (6-6) vs. Arkansas State (6-6) 12 p.m. ESPN
Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl James Madison (11-1) vs. Air Force (8-4) 3:30 p.m. ABC
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Utah State (6-6) vs. Georgia State (6-6) 3:30 p.m. ESPN
68 Ventures Bowl South Alabama (6-6) vs. Eastern Michigan (6-6) 7 p.m. ESPN
SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl Utah (8-4) vs. Northwestern (7-5) 7:30 p.m. ESPN
Easypost Hawai'i Bowl Coastal Carolina (7-5) vs. San Jose State (7-5) 10:30 p.m. ESPN

Tuesday, Dec. 26

Bowl Matchup Time (ET) TV
Quick Lane Bowl Bowling Green (7-5) vs. Minnesota (5-7) 2 p.m. ESPN
Servpro First Responder Bowl Texas State (7-5) vs. Rice (6-6) 5:30 p.m. ESPN
Guaranteed Rate Bowl UNLV (9-4) vs. Kansas (8-4) 9 p.m. ESPN

Wednesday, Dec. 27

Bowl Matchup Time (ET) TV
Military Bowl presented by GoBowling.com Tulane (11-2) vs. Virginia Tech (6-6) 2 p.m. ESPN
Duke's Mayo Bowl West Virginia (8-4) vs. North Carolina (8-4) 5:30 p.m. ESPN
TaxAct Texas Bowl Oklahoma State (9-4) vs. Texas A&M (7-5) 9 p.m. ESPN

Thursday, Dec. 28

Bowl Matchup Time (ET) TV
Wasabi Fenway Bowl SMU (11-2) vs. Boston College (6-6) 11 a.m. ESPN
Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl Miami (7-5) vs. Rutgers (6-6) 2:15 p.m. ESPN
Pop-Tarts Bowl Kansas State (8-4) vs. NC State (9-3) 5 p.m. ESPN
DirecTV Holiday Bowl USC (7-5) vs. Louisville (10-3) 8 p.m. Fox
Valero Alamo Bowl Arizona (9-3) vs. Oklahoma (10-2) 9:15 p.m. ESPN

Friday, Dec. 29

Bowl Matchup Time (ET) TV
TaxSlayer Gator Bowl Clemson (8-4) vs. Kentucky (7-5) 12 p.m. ESPN
Tony The Tiger Sun Bowl Oregon State (8-4) vs. Notre Dame (9-3) 2 p.m. CBS
AutoZone Liberty Bowl Iowa State (7-5) vs. Memphis (9-3) 3:30 p.m. ESPN

Saturday, Dec. 30

Bowl Matchup Time (ET) TV
Transperfect Music City Bowl Maryland (7-5) vs. Auburn (6-6) 2 p.m. ABC
Barstool Arizona Bowl Toledo (11-2) vs. Wyoming (8-4) 4:30 p.m. Barstool

Monday, Jan. 1

Bowl Matchup Time (ET) TV
Reliaquest Bowl LSU (9-3) vs. Wisconsin (7-5) 12 p.m. ESPN2
Cheez-It Citrus Bowl Iowa (10-3) vs. Tennessee (8-4) 1 p.m. ABC
 

New Year's Day 6 bowls

Date Bowl Matchup Time (ET)
Dec. 29 Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic Ohio State (11-1) vs. Missouri (10-2) 8 p.m.
Dec. 30 Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl Ole Miss (10-2) vs. Penn State (10-2) 12 p.m.
Dec. 30 Capital One Orange Bowl Georgia (12-1) vs. Florida State (13-0) 4 p.m.
Jan. 1 Vrbo Fiesta Bowl Liberty (13-0) vs. Oregon (11-2) 1 p.m.

College Football Playoff schedule

Date Bowl Matchup Time (ET)
Jan. 1 Rose Bowl Game presented by Prudential Michigan (13-0) vs. Alabama (12-1) 5 p.m.
Jan. 1 Allstate Sugar Bowl Washington (13-0) vs. Texas (12-1) 8:45 p.m. 
Jan. 8 CFP championship game TBD 8 p.m.

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.