The College Football Bowl Schedule for the 2022-23 season has officially been released by Bowl Season, which represents college football’s 43 postseason games.
With 42 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) games including the College Football National Championship, 82 teams will play in a postseason game in 2022-23, which is 63% of the FBS.
The ESPN family of networks will televise 40 of the 43 contests this season, including the FCS Celebration Bowl. CBS and FOX will televise one contest each, while the remaining game will be streamed by Barstool Sports.
The 2022-23 bowl season kicks off on Friday, Dec. 16 with two games. The HomeTown Lenders Bahamas Bowl is first at 11:30am ET on ESPN, and it’s followed by the Cure Bowl at 3:00pm ET on ESPN.
The first full day of the bowl season is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 17. Seven bowl games are scheduled for that day, beginning with the Wasabi Fenway Bowl at 11:00am ET on ESPN.
The EasyPost Hawaii Bowl is set for Christmas Eve again this season and will be televised by ESPN at 8:00pm ET. No bowl games will be played on Christmas Day this season since it falls on a Sunday.
On New Year’s Eve, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022, the two College Football Playoff semifinal games will take place. Hosts this season are the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Ga., and the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. Kickoff for the semifinals will be 4:00pm ET and 8:00pm ET, with the exact order announced after the pairings are set in December.
Due to New Year’s Day falling on a Sunday in 2023, no bowl games will be played that day.
Four bowl games are slated for Monday, Jan. 2, 2023, beginning with the Tampa Bay Bowl at 12:00pm ET on ESPN2. That contest will be followed by the Goodyear Cotton Bowl (1:00pm, ESPN), Vrbo Citrus Bowl (1:00pm ET, ABC), and Rose Bowl Game (5:00pm ET, ESPN).
The College Football National Championship concludes the college football season on Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. The two playoff semifinal winners will meet at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., and the game will be televised by ESPN at 8:00pm ET.
In before the “there’s to many bowl games” comments.
However, a lot of the bowl schedules seem less than ideal. Ie. Friday the 16th 11:30am and 3PM games. Why don’t they do prime time games on a weekday like 4PM and 8PM?
Mike,
IDK.
One Idea.
Maybe the market Research & 2021’s exhibition bowl Game Viewership & the 2020 Covid Year before that, & 2019 before that showed that exhibition Bowl Watchers were not attracted to Prime Time Slots in mid December in these Years?
Maybe “too many Exhibition Games” in the midst of the Christmas Season have shown this Result?
Two Idea.
As much as College FB Fan-atics don’t want to, won’t admit it: only so many college sports Fans watch FB exhibitions every weekend in December.
I love some College Sports, FB, MBB.
Three Idea.
There are so many Pro Sports Fans, BB, FB.
So many NCAA MBB Fans i.e. Gonzaga, Kansas, Villanova, UConn, Duke, NC, UCLA whose Schools have no or little presence in these exhibition Games.
Four idea.
The 1-AA (fcs) Playoffs are happening Right Then. I’ve watched very compelling !-AA Semi-final Playoff Games which are much more exciting & have a National Championship as their Goal the very next Week of December.
I’m open to debate my Points made above…
Because ESPN will the NBA following the bowl games most likely that Friday on December 16th so that’s why they went with those times to start those bowl games
The Rose Bowl Game website has a 1pm local start not sure why the bowl season group & ESPN have the usual 2pm local start because their is going to be a NFL game that night
I think the Rose Bowl website always lists the game time one hour earlier than kickoff due to their pregame festivities.
Music City Bowl goes to ABC for the very 1st time this season which is cool to see that because ESPN has put several of the smaller bowls on broadcast tv over the years & this year it will be the Nashville based game
Erik,
Regardless of the MWC & MAC Teams which are in the Game; I’m watching the Barstool Sports AZ Bowl broadcast because Barstool Sports has the Opportunity to do an ABC / ESPN / Disney quality Broadcast without being that Exhibition bowl Trust Organ…
A shame that on Jan. 2, the Sugar Bowl will not follow the Rose Bowl and that NFL football has invaded on college space. Typically, the NFL stayed on Sunday near the end of the season.
Why were major bowl games moved from traditional 1/1 to Monday 1/2?
Was it the NFL’s position as top dog on Sundays that pushed these games to 1/2?
Or was it religious concerns?
Religious concerns? No. When New Year’s Day falls on a Sunday, there are no college games due to the NFL.