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2015-16 Bowl Schedule announcements

By Brian Wilmer - December 6, 2015
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The 2015-16 bowl schedule is set to be announced today, including the College Football Playoff and New Year’s Six games.

Below we will live blog the games and pairings as they are announced. For the complete list of games, check out our Bowl Schedule.

BOWL SCHEDULE UPDATES

12:39pm (Eastern)
The two playoff games are in, with both games on ESPN on 12/31:
Capital One Orange Bowl – (1) Clemson vs. (4) Oklahoma
Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic – (2) Alabama vs. (3) Michigan State

12:49pm
Some additional updates:
GoDaddy Bowl – Bowling Green vs. Georgia Southern
Popeye’s Bahamas Bowl (Nassau, Bahamas) – Western Michigan vs. Middle Tennessee

1:08pm
Here’s a pretty large domino:
Allstate Sugar Bowl (New Orleans, LA) – Oklahoma State vs. Ole Miss

1:19pm
To very little surprise, Navy will play in the Military Bowl presented by Northrup Grumman. Their opponent will be announced later today. Also, Cincinnati is headed to the Hawaii Bowl.

1:28pm
BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall will coach his final game for the Cougars in the Las Vegas Bowl. No opponent has been announced. Also announced:

Appalachian State – Raycom Media Camellia Bowl
Arkansas State – R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl (likely to face Louisiana Tech)

1:44pm
USF will participate in the Miami Beach Bowl. Their rumored opponent is Western Kentucky. There’s quite a bit of intrigue behind that one, if it happens. Also, Stanford will head to the Rose Bowl, where they will face a Big Ten opponent (Iowa?).

2:28pm
On the Rose Bowl front…

2:59pm
The earlier mention of USF-Western Kentucky in the Miami Beach Bowl is now official, per ESPN’s Brett McMurphy.

3:02pm
The Sun Belt announced a moment ago that Georgia State will play in the AutoNation Cure Bowl. The other Sun Belt teams (Arkansas State, Georgia Southern and Appalachian State) have already been referenced.

3:04pm
Appalachian State will face Ohio in the Raycom Media Camellia Bowl.

3:08pm
We told you earlier that Stanford and Iowa will face off in the Rose Bowl, and that Oklahoma State will face Ole Miss in the Allstate Sugar Bowl. Those matchups were just announced by ESPN.

3:11pm
Ohio State and Notre Dame will play in the Battlefrog Fiesta Bowl. Houston and Florida State will play in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl. Also, the matchup of Louisiana Tech and Arkansas State we mentioned earlier in the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl is now official.

3:16pm
Tulsa will play in the Camping World Independence Bowl against a to-be-named opponent.

3:18pm
Miami will play in the Hyundai Sun Bowl, ESPN reports.

3:21pm
A number of announcements coming now. Washington State will face Miami in the Hyundai Sun Bowl. North Carolina will play in the Russell Athletic Bowl. The Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl will feature Air Force. Southern Miss will play in the Heart of Dallas Bowl.

3:23pm
UConn and Marshall will play in the St. Petersburg Bowl.

3:31pm
Toledo and Temple will play in the Marmot Boca Raton Bowl.

3:33pm
Two more:
Northern Illinois and Boise State will face off in the Poinsettia Bowl, while Texas Tech goes to the Advocare V100 Texas Bowl.

3:36pm
Louisville gets one of the shorter roadies of the postseason. They will play in the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl.

3:37pm
Charlotte’s Belk Bowl will feature Mississippi State and NC State. Duke will play in the New Era Pinstripe Bowl.

3:39pm
Northwestern and Tennessee will travel to the Outback Bowl.

3:41pm
The Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl is complete – Texas A&M vs. Louisville.

3:42pm
Tulsa’s opponent in the Camping World Independence Bowl will be Virginia Tech.

3:44pm
Pitt and Navy will finalize the Military Bowl presented by Northrup Grumman.

3:46pm
As someone mentioned earlier in the comments section, Florida and Michigan will go in the Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl.

3:47pm
Memphis will play in the Birmingham Bowl, likely against Auburn.

3:51pm
TCU and Oregon are confirmed for the Valero Alamo Bowl. If you like offense, there’s your game.

3:53pm
USC will play in the National University Holiday Bowl. UCLA is in the Foster Farms Bowl.

3:56pm
The Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl is set – BYU vs. Utah. Lots of heat to that one.

3:57pm
Baylor and North Carolina will finalize the Russell Athletic Bowl.

4:01pm
Central Michigan and Minnesota will fill out the Quick Lane Bowl. New Mexico will play in the Gildan New Mexico Bowl. Akron and Utah State will play in the Famous Potato Bowl.

4:03pm
Duke’s New Era Pinstripe Bowl opponent will be Indiana. Kansas State will play in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl.

4:05pm
The long-rumored UCLA/Nebraska matchup in the Foster Farms Bowl is set.

4:08pm
The National University Holiday Bowl is done – USC vs. Wisconsin.

4:09pm
San Diego State will be Cincinnati’s Hawai’i Bowl opponent.

4:11pm
It’s apparently going to be Kansas State and Arkansas in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl.

4:14pm
The Motel 6 Cactus Bowl will be leaving the light on for Arizona State. Also, Texas Tech’s Texas Bowl opponent will be LSU.

4:19pm
West Virginia will lace them up against Arizona State in the Motel 6 Cactus Bowl.

4:24pm
As someone here suggested earlier, Penn State will indeed play in the TaxSlayer Bowl against Georgia.

4:26pm
Washington will play Southern Miss in the Heart of Dallas Bowl. Cal will play Air Force in the Armed Forces Bowl.

4:34pm
Georgia State’s AutoNation Cure Bowl foe will be San Jose State.

4:35pm
Arizona and New Mexico will participate in the Gildan New Mexico Bowl.

4:41pm
As the carousel slowly grinds to a close, it looks as though Nevada and Colorado State will play in the Nova Home Loans Arizona Bowl. Stand by for confirmation.

4:48pm
That’ll bring the afternoon to a close. Thanks for reading along, commenting, refreshing and spending your Sunday afternoon with us. To find out the time, date and network for your favorite team, check our Bowl Schedule. To insult me interact with me, click the handy little button below!



View Comments (71)

Comments (71)

When will the rest of the bowl announcements be made? Im wanting to know where the Florida Gators will be playing

The Florida Gators will be beaten by the Michigan Wolverines on January 1st in the citrus bowl

I am anxiously waiting to hear about Arizona State. Several predictions but them playing in DFW. My daughter is in the band at ASU, but we live in Ft Worth. A local bowl game would be AMAZING!

I’m local to Fort Worth, not AZ. So, ASU coming to Texas would sell hotel rooms to the rest of ASU fans coming to Texas for an Arizona State bowl game. :D

Dude, you haven’t seen USF play. And it’s ready made intrigue with WKU’s old star QB and head coach Willie Taggert coaching the Bulls. They have an NFL ready RB in Marlon Mack, the offense skill positions are young and took a few games to gel.

I have heard Alamo against my Oregon Duck. I am predicting a 105-100 victory for Oregon.

Does anybody know where Mississippi State or Penn State will be this year? Anxiously awaiting these announcements!!

Many of the non-listed games are still unofficial. I promise to get you all the updates as I get them. Thanks for reading!

Could you explain how the bowl games are decided? Do teams get to pick out of a couple options based on their rankings/records?

Somewhat. The entire process is really confusing. When you see bowl projection sites, and they mention “No. 8 SEC” or whatever, that’s not the eighth-ranked team in the conference, it’s the eighth pick of eligible teams from the conference. Bowls tend to pick what they think will be the matchup that draws the most money, as one might imagine, and then other games are left to select from the remaining options. That’s the best — and shortest — explanation I can offer. :)

tennesse to the outback bowl, penn state to the taxpayer bowl mississippi state to the belk bowl,arkansas to the liberty bowl, tcu to the alamo bowl,

Memphis is most likely headed to the Birmingham bowl vs auburn. Tennessee should be going to the music city bowl vs nc state

Georgia: TaxSlayer Bowl vs. Penn State
Georgia State: Cure Bowl (opponent TBD)
Arizona Bowl: TBD

There’s a problem here…..only two teams haven’t been announced, and both would be going to the Arizona Bowl. But those two teams are Colorado State and Nevada…..both in the Mountain West. Unless they want two teams from the same conference competing, somebody needs to make a switch.

I think people are okay with that because they didn’t play during the regular season. Also, Campus Insiders is involved with both the Mountain West and that bowl game, as the great Matt Sarzyniak pointed out on Twitter.

This isn’t the first time a league has two teams in the same bowl. Nebraska and Oklahoma both went to the Orange Bowl in 1979 as members of the old Big 8. In that case, they had also played in the regular season also.

My Predictions:

Arizona 39-32
BYU 22-14
Appalachian State 31-17
Georgia State 27-24 OT
Louisiana Tech 38-24
Western Kentucky 24-20
Utah State 33-27
Toledo 20-10
NIU 37-24
Georgia Southern 27-20
Middle Tennessee 37-31 OT
Cincinnati 31-27
Marshall 41-30
Washington State 28-13
Washington 26-6
Indiana 23-13
Virginia Tech 24-17
Nebraska 34-30
Navy 30-27
Minnesota 35-31
California 28-24
Baylor 33-30
Colorado State 21-14
Texas Tech 31-28
Auburn 31-20
Mississippi State 38-30
Louisville 24-19
USC 30-13
Houston 34-24
Tennessee 17-13
Florida 27-23 (OH YEAH!)
Ohio State 44-37
Stanford 27-17
Oklahoma State 36-24
Georgia 24-7
Arkansas 38-14
Oregon 45-40
West Virginia 35-21

CFP:

Oklahoma 35-34
Alabama 42-23

National Championship:

Alabama 34-10