How many bowls in college football?

Almost 100 years after the first bowl, one bowl per year got to call itself the official title game, and in 2014, six bowls started taking turns as playoff semifinals. That Pasadena game, the Rose Bowl, is one of them. read more

Bowl games have become commonplace for many schools from power conferences, and their fan bases are particularly disinterested in traveling 2,000 miles to watch a ho-hum matchup of underperforming teams. read more

Existing postseason bowls will continue to operate while the moratorium is in effect. New and existing bowls will have the opportunity to attract conference commitments for the 2020 bowl season. (2017 does have a new game, sort of, with the Miami Beach Bowl moving to Frisco, Texas, but that wasn’t exactly a totally new event. read more

Six bowl games are currently part of the College Football Playoff, a selection system that creates bowl matchups involving twelve of the top-ranked teams in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. There are also a number of other college football postseason invitationals, as well as several all-star games. read more