College Football - Bowl Games

[Andy]

R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl in New Orleans, LA – 12/16, 1 pm (ESPN)

North Texas vs Troy

 

AutoNation Cure Bowl in Orlando, FL – 12/16, 2:30 pm (CBSSN)

Western Kentucky vs Georgia State

 

Las Vegas Bowl in Las Vegas, NV – 12/16, 3:30 pm (ABC)

Oregon vs (25) Boise State

 

Gildan New Mexico Bowl in Albuquerque, NM – 12/16, 4:30 pm (ESPN)

Colorado State vs Marshall

 

Raycom Media Camellia Bowl in Montgomery, AL – 12/16, 8 pm (ESPN)

Middle Tennessee vs Arkansas State

 

Cheribundi Boca Raton Bowl in Boca Raton, FL – 12/19, 7 pm (ESPN)

Florida Atlantic vs Akron

 

DXL Frisco Bowl in Frisco, TX – 12/20, 8 pm (ESPN)

Louisiana Tech vs SMU

 

Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl in St. Petersburg, FL – 12/21, 8 pm (ESPN)

Temple vs Florida International

 

Bahamas Bowl in Nassau, BS – 12/22, 12:30 pm (ESPN)

UAB vs Ohio

 

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in Boise, ID – 12/22, 4 pm (ESPN)

Wyoming vs Central Michigan

 

Birmingham Bowl in Birmingham, AL – 12/23, 12 pm (ESPN)

Texas Tech vs South Florida

 

Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth, TX – 12/23, 3:30 pm (ESPN)

San Diego State vs Army

 

Dollar General Bowl in Mobile, AL – 12/23, 7 pm (ESPN)

Appalachian State vs Toledo

 

Hawaii Bowl in Honolulu, HI – 12/24, 8:30 pm (ESPN)

Houston vs Fresno State

 

Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl in Dallas, TX – 12/26, 1:30 pm (ESPN)

West Virginia vs Utah

 

Quick Lane Bowl in Detroit, MI – 12/26, 5:15 pm (ESPN)

Northern Illinois vs Duke

 

Cactus Bowl in Phoenix, AZ – 12/26, 9 pm (ESPN)

UCLA vs Kansas State

 

Walk On’s Independence Bowl in Shreveport, LA – 12/27, 1:30 pm (ESPN)

Florida State vs Southern Miss

 

New Era Pinstripe Bowl in New York, NY – 12/27, 5:15 pm (ESPN)

Boston College vs Iowa

 

Foster Farms Bowl in Santa Clara, CA – 12/27, 8:30 pm (FOX)

Arizona vs Purdue

 

Academy Sports & Outdoors Texas Bowl in Houston, TX – 12/27, 9 pm (ESPN)

Texas vs Missouri

 

Military Bowl in Annapolis, MD – 12/28, 1:30 pm (ESPN)

Virginia vs Navy

 

Camping World Bowl in Orlando, FL – 12/28, 5:15 pm (ESPN)

(22) Virginia Tech vs (19) Oklahoma State

 

San Diego County Credit Union Holiday Bowl in San Diego, CA – 12/28, 9 pm (FS1)

(18) Washington State vs (16) Michigan State

 

Valero Alamo Bowl in San Antonio, TX – 12/28, 9 pm (ESPN)

(13) Stanford vs (15) TCU

 

Belk Bowl in Charlotte, NC – 12/29, 1 pm (ESPN)

Texas A&M vs Wake Forest

 

Hyundai Sun Bowl in El Paso, TX – 12/29, 3 pm (CBS)

Arizona State vs (24) NC State

 

Franklin American Mortgage Company Music City Bowl in Nashville, TN – 12/29, 4:30 pm (ESPN)

Kentucky vs (21) Northwestern

 

Nova Home Loans Arizona Bowl in Tucson, AZ – 12/29, 5:30 pm (CBSSN)

New Mexico State vs Utah State

 

TaxSlayer Bowl in Jacksonville, FL – 12/30, 12 pm (ESPN)

Louisville vs (23) Mississippi State

 

AutoZone Liberty Bowl in Memphis, TN – 12/30, 12:30 pm (ABC)

(20) Memphis vs Iowa State

 

Outback Bowl in Tampa, FL – 1/1, 12 pm (ESPN2)

South Carolina vs Michigan

 

Citrus Bowl in Orlando, FL – 1/1, 1 pm (ABC)

(17) LSU vs (14) Notre Dame

 

“New Year’s 6” Games:

 

Goodyear Cotton Bowl in Arlington, TX – 12/29, 8:30 pm (ESPN)

(8) USC vs (5) Ohio State

 

PlayStation Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, AZ – 12/30, 4 pm (ESPN)

(9) Penn State vs (11) Washington

 

Capital One Orange Bowl in Miami, FL – 12/30, 8 pm (ESPN)

(6) Wisconsin vs (10) Miami

 

Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl in Atlanta, GA – 1/1, 12:30 pm (ESPN)

(12) UCF vs (7) Auburn

 

Playoff:

 

Rose Bowl Semifinal in Pasadena, CA – 1/1, 5 pm (ESPN)

(3) Georgia vs (2) Oklahoma

 

Allstate Sugar Bowl Semifinal in New Orleans, LA – 1/1, 8:30 pm (ESPN)

(4) Alabama vs (1) Clemson

 

College Football Championship Game in Atlanta, GA – 1/8, 8 pm (ESPN)

Semifinal Winners

Edited December 13, 2017 by Andy

[OleMissCub]

Good to see they finally wised up and put the semi-finals on New Years Day. Putting them on New Years Eve was stupid as hell.

[Derwood]

Good to see they finally wised up and put the semi-finals on New Years Day. Putting them on New Years Eve was stupid as hell.

 

Wasn't that due to New Year's Day being on a Sunday last year, thus overlapping with the NFL schedule?

[NOLA]

Gus got his $7.4M...from Auburn.

[Andy]

Good to see they finally wised up and put the semi-finals on New Years Day. Putting them on New Years Eve was stupid as hell.

They are always New Year's Day when the Rose and Sugar host. The other years they will be the Saturday before New Year's Day. They started that last year but that happened to be New Year's Eve so no one noticed.

[MarkR]

I scored 4 tickets to the Rose Bowl and am so excited to attend. I've got no real dog in Oklahoma/Georgia (I was hoping OSU would have, unlikely, snagged a spot) but it looks like it'll be a great game. I've never been inside the Rose Bowl and just the atmosphere around it is stirring me into a frenzy. I love living in California.

[OleMissCub]

I scored 4 tickets to the Rose Bowl and am so excited to attend. I've got no real dog in Oklahoma/Georgia (I was hoping OSU would have, unlikely, snagged a spot) but it looks like it'll be a great game. I've never been inside the Rose Bowl and just the atmosphere around it is stirring me into a frenzy. I love living in California.

 

Jealous. Rose Bowl is a bucket list for most CFB fans

[Andy]

I scored 4 tickets to the Rose Bowl and am so excited to attend. I've got no real dog in Oklahoma/Georgia (I was hoping OSU would have, unlikely, snagged a spot) but it looks like it'll be a great game. I've never been inside the Rose Bowl and just the atmosphere around it is stirring me into a frenzy. I love living in California.

 

Jealous. Rose Bowl is a bucket list for most CFB fans

I have a cousin who graduated from Michigan State and he went the year they beat Stanford. I was extremely envious.

[jersey cubs fan]

I scored 4 tickets to the Rose Bowl and am so excited to attend. I've got no real dog in Oklahoma/Georgia (I was hoping OSU would have, unlikely, snagged a spot) but it looks like it'll be a great game. I've never been inside the Rose Bowl and just the atmosphere around it is stirring me into a frenzy. I love living in California.

I've been to three, but not for a very long time. Haven't been to a real bowl game since 2000 Orange Bowl, but I did see the pinstripe bowl a few years ago.

[biittner77]

What is the most intriguing bowl game on that list? Wrong answers only.

[jersey cubs fan]

What is the most intriguing bowl game on that list? Wrong answers only.

definitely buffalo wing wings citrus bowl presented by arby's

[biittner77]

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in Boise, ID – 12/22, 4 pm (ESPN)

Wyoming vs Central Michigan

 

Brought to you by Thick Onion Gravy. Just kidding, the Thick Onion Gravy Bowl matches the Coast Guard Academy vs. The College of Automation.

[sneakypower]

OMC, any further intel on this?

http://mgoblog.com/content/so-about-shea-patterson

 

If—when?—[Deontay ] Anderson gets that waiver that should open the floodgates for the entire 2016 class.

[OleMissCub]

OMC, any further intel on this?

http://mgoblog.com/content/so-about-shea-patterson

 

If—when?—[Deontay ] Anderson gets that waiver that should open the floodgates for the entire 2016 class.

 

Irrelevant since Ole Miss got the 2nd year bowl ban. Any player that wishes to transfer and to be immediately eligible to play next year can apply for a waiver, which will likely be granted by the NCAA.

 

Shea Patterson will be the only major loss due to the bowl ban thing. He's a big loss, but it's not as devastating for Ole Miss as one might think. When he went down his replacement, a Hawaiian kid named Jordan Ta'amu stepped up and played much better than Patterson did. Ole Miss has him for another two years.

 

Patterson will be at Michigan next year, fwiw.

 

There's a conspiracy theory out there that Ole Miss got the 2nd year bowl ban because the NCAA wanted to kick this "I want a transfer because I was misled" issue down the road. Thus, by giving the 2nd year ban, this allows the NCAA to skirt the issue. The theory is that when Ole Miss appeals the ban, they'll win and have that ban removed, but by then the players that wanted to leave will have already left. The reason many think they're likely to win that appeal is because there are no other instances in recent memory where the NCAA gave a school a two year bowl ban but didn't hit them hard anywhere else. If you look at the past instances where schools received a 2+ year ban, that punishment was accompanied with devastating scholarship reductions, etc. Ole Miss basically got off very light except for the 2nd year ban, which most commentators feel is very strange. But that's tin-foil hat stuff. Who knows...

[jersey cubs fan]

[OleMissCub]

 

Freeze being vetted for OC (for real)

[NOLA]

Old Style, I’m curious about your opinion of John Chavis, just hired as DC at Arkansas. He was one of the best DC in the country at LSU but struggled a bit at aTm.

[Old Style]

Old Style, I’m curious about your opinion of John Chavis, just hired as DC at Arkansas. He was one of the best DC in the country at LSU but struggled a bit at aTm.

I'm still not quite sure what to think of his tenure at A&M. He should've had enough talent to field better defenses than he did but the offenses didn't do them any favors while he was there. In the end I think he needs to coach on a team that plays ball control offense and that he will struggle when paired up with quick strike offenses.

[NOLA]

Old Style, I’m curious about your opinion of John Chavis, just hired as DC at Arkansas. He was one of the best DC in the country at LSU but struggled a bit at aTm.

I'm still not quite sure what to think of his tenure at A&M. He should've had enough talent to field better defenses than he did but the offenses didn't do them any favors while he was there. In the end I think he needs to coach on a team that plays ball control offense and that he will struggle when paired up with quick strike offenses.

So, the opposite of a Chad Morris offense. Got it. Fantastic.

[OleMissCub]

Navy beat Virginia 49-7 without completing a pass. Unreal.

[Andy]

Navy beat Virginia 49-7 without completing a pass. Unreal.

49 straight after UVA took the opening kickoff back for a touchdown. Playing them is hell.

[weis21]

I think it's really disgraceful to the sport of football when a player takes a knee in the endzone for a touchback. they should salute the football itself imo

[Ding Dong Johnson]

the referee in the Northwestern/Kentucky game just tried helping up a RB after a play. he pulled his hands back from the ref who then threw a flag for “making contact with an official” and ejected him

[Ding Dong Johnson]

what a joke

 

[tweet]https://twitter.com/Scott_Charlton/status/946874102500995074[/tweet]

[OleMissCub]

That's egregious. That dude doesn't need to ref another game in the NCAA.