The college football bowl games for 2023-24 will be announced on Sunday, including the College Football Playoff and New Year’s Six selections and schedule.
Below we will live blog the bowl games and pairings as they are announced on Sunday. The College Football Playoff Semifinal pairings will be announced first at 12:15pm ET on ESPN.
Bowl games hosting the College Football Playoff Semifinals this season are the Rose Bowl Game at Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, Calif., and the Allstate Sugar Bowl at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, La. Both semifinal games will be played on New Year’s Day, Monday, Jan. 1, 2024.
At 2:30pm ET, the College Football Playoff Selection Committee will announce the New Year’s Six bowl game pairings. Those four games this season include the Goodyear Cotton Bowl (Friday, Dec. 29 in Arlington, Texas), Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl (Saturday, Dec. 30 in Atlanta, Ga.), Capital One Orange Bowl (Saturday, Dec. 30 in Miami Gardens, Fla.), and Vrbo Fiesta Bowl (Monday, Jan. 1 in Glendale, Ariz.).
This season’s College Football Playoff National Championship will be played at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024.
For the complete list of games with date, time, and TV, check out our College Football Bowl Schedule and our College Football Playoff Schedule.
FOOTBALL SCHEDULES
BOWL SCHEDULE UPDATES
Saturday, Dec. 2
– Coastal Carolina and San Jose State will play in the EasyPost Hawai’i Bowl, which was initially reported by Brett McMurphy and later officially announced.
– Brett McMurphy reports that Jacksonville State and Louisiana will square off in the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl.
– MEAC champion Howard and SWAC champion Florida A&M will meet in the Cricket Celebration Bowl.
Sunday, Dec. 3
– Good afternoon, kids! Brian here — I’ll tell you where your favorite team will play with all the snark and none of the corporatism! We’ll find out where the playoff rankings fall about 12:15-12:20 — whenever the commercials and stand-ups stop for a few seconds.
– BREAKING: Every coach in the top six says their team is one of the four best!
– Here are your playoff teams for the last time before they water it all down:
#1 Michigan (13-0) vs. #4 Alabama (12-1) — Rose Bowl, 5pm ET, Monday, Jan. 1
#2 Washington (13-0) vs. #3 Texas (12-1) — Allstate Sugar Bowl, 8:45pm ET, Monday, Jan. 1
#5 Florida State (13-0)
#6 Georgia (12-1)
– Oh hey, at least Booger McFarland is going to call it as it is, calling the playoff a “travesty to the sport”. Good thing we only have one more year of this before we throw in a bunch of middling P5s to line the coffers. While we’re all venting over this, be sure to refresh this page regularly for the latest updates!
– “I think the committee did a great job.” – Kirk Herbstreit
Of course you do, Kirk. Of course you do. You would have said that no matter who got these spots.
– #5 Florida State vs. #6 Georgia in the Orange Bowl (Saturday, Dec. 30, 4pm ET, ESPN).
– Joey Galloway is seriously sitting here trying to tell us that no one on that dais cares about the games or the matchups. Really. This is the best stand-up comedy act I’ve seen in a decade.
– There may be no more appropriate name than Boo Corrigan, based on how this has turned out.
– BREAKING: The next game is the most important game. Thanks for that pearl of wisdom from both Jim Harbaugh and Nick Saban.
– We’ll find out the next group of teams in an hour at 2:30 (Eastern). Thanks, ESPN, for allowing us the opportunity to hear the same people say the same stuff all afternoon. How would we ever get through a dreary December Sunday without your blessing us with this?
– NY6 stuff coming up soon. How will we have all this drama next year when we’re arguing over who’s #13 instead of who’s #5? The NCAA and ESPN will rake their cash, but lose the “compelling” television.
– Cotton (Dec. 29, 8pm ET, ESPN): #9 Missouri vs. #7 Ohio State
– Peach (Dec. 30, noon ET, ESPN): #11 Ole Miss vs. #10 Penn State
– Orange (Dec. 30, 4pm ET, ESPN): #6 Georgia vs. #5 Florida State (we mentioned that earlier)
– Fiesta (Jan. 1, 1pm ET, ESPN): #8 Oregon vs. #23 Liberty
– The final Top 25 is coming out now. Kevin will have the recap of that on the main site, so I won’t post that here.
Here comes the cascade of bowl matchups, thanks largely to our friend Brett McMurphy.
– New Mexico (Dec. 16, 5:45pm, ESPN): New Mexico State vs. Fresno State
– Famous Idaho Potato (Dec. 23, 3pm, ESPN): Utah State vs. Georgia State
– Los Angeles (Dec. 16, 7:30pm, ABC): Boise State vs. UCLA
– Famous Toastery (Dec. 18, 2:30pm, ESPN): Western Kentucky vs. Old Dominion
– Alamo (Dec. 28, 9:15pm, ESPN); Arizona vs. Oklahoma
– Citrus (Jan. 1, 1pm, ESPN): Iowa vs. Tennessee — somewhere, Steve Spurrier is smiling
– Camellia (Dec. 23, noon, ESPN): Arkansas State vs. Northern Illinois
– Armed Forces (Dec. 23, 3:30pm, ESPN): JMU vs. Air Force
– Military (Dec. 27, 2pm, ESPN): Tulane vs. Virginia Tech
– Fenway (Dec. 28, 11am, ESPN): SMU vs. Boston College
– Liberty (Dec. 29, 3:30pm, ESPN): Memphis vs. Iowa State
– Texas (Dec. 27, 9pm, ESPN): Oklahoma State vs. Texas A&M
– Las Vegas (Dec. 23, 7:30pm, ESPN): Northwestern vs. Utah
– First Responder (Dec. 26, 5:30pm, ESPN): Texas State vs. Rice
– Arizona (Dec. 30, 4pm, The CW/Barstool): Toledo vs. Wyoming
– Cure (Dec. 16, 3:30pm, ABC): Appalachian State vs. Miami (OH)
– Boca Raton (Dec. 21, 8pm, ESPN): South Florida vs. Syracuse
– Gasparilla (Dec. 22, 6:30pm, ESPN): UCF vs. Georgia Tech
– Birmingham (Dec. 23, noon, ESPN): Duke vs. Troy
– Frisco (Dec. 19, 9pm, ESPN): Marshall vs. UTSA
– Quick Lane (Dec. 26, 2pm, ESPN): Bowling Green vs. Minnesota
– 68 Ventures (Dec. 23, 7pm, ESPN): South Alabama vs. Eastern Michigan
– ReliaQuest (Jan. 1, noon, ESPN2): LSU vs. Wisconsin
– Guaranteed Rate (Dec. 26, 9pm, ESPN): Kansas vs. UNLV
– Independence (Dec. 16, 9:15pm, ESPN): Texas Tech vs. Cal
– Myrtle Beach (Dec. 16, 11am, ESPN): Georgia Southern vs. Ohio — three-quarters of Ohio lives there, so home game!
– Music City (Dec. 30, 2pm, ABC): Auburn vs. Maryland
– Gator (Dec. 29, noon, ESPN): Kentucky vs. Clemson
– Sun (Dec. 29, 2pm, CBS): Oregon State vs. Notre Dame
– Holiday (Dec. 27, 8pm, FOX): USC vs. Louisville
– Pop-Tarts (Dec. 28, 5:45pm, ESPN): Kansas State vs. NC State
– Duke’s Mayo (Dec. 27, 5:30pm, ESPN): West Virginia vs. North Carolina — I still think there needs to be a contest where a fan can win the “prize” of getting mayo dunked on them
– Pinstripe (Dec. 28, 2:15pm, ESPN): Rutgers vs. Miami
– It’s 5:40pm (Eastern), and we still don’t have all the teams decided because Notre Dame is holding everything up on the ACC side. This was supposed to have been finished an hour and a half ago. Someday, we’ll have an entire bowl lineup. Someday.
– 6:02 Eastern, and we’re — finally — all done. Thanks for hanging out today and all season! May your favorite team(s) win and may you all have a joyous and blessed Christmas/holiday season. In the words of Blues Traveler, “If it’s Hanukkah or Kwanzaa / Solstice, Harvest, or December 25th / Peace on earth to everyone / and abundance to everyone you’re with”. Until next time, folks!