College football bowl thread: Days of Signs and Roses

Presenting you 2023-24 college football bowl schedule. All times Central. Rankings for postseason are from the CFP committee.

Saturday Dec. 16
Myrtle Beach Bowl: Georgia Southern (+2.5) vs Ohio 10 am ESPN
Celebration Bowl: Florida A&M vs Howard 11 am ABC
New Orleans Bowl: Jacksonville St. (-3) vs Louisiana 1:15 pm ESPN
Cure Bowl: Miami (Ohio) (+5) vs Appalachian St. 2:30 pm ABC
New Mexico Bowl: New Mexico State (-3) vs. Fresno State 4:45 pm ESPN
LA Bowl: UCLA (-3) vs Boise St. 6:30 pm ABC
Independence Bowl: California (+3) vs Texas Tech 8:15 pm ESPN

Monday Dec. 18
Famous Toastery Bowl: Western Kentucky (+2.5) vs Old Dominion 1:30 pm ESPN

Tuesday Dec. 19
Frisco Bowl: UTSA (-9.5) vs Marshall 8 pm ESPN

Thursday Dec. 21
Boca Raton Bowl: South Florida (+3.5) vs Syracuse 7 pm ESPN

Friday Dec. 22
Gasparilla Bowl: UCF (-4.5) vs Georgia Tech 5:30 pm ESPN

Saturday Dec. 23
Birmingham Bowl: Duke (+7) vs Troy 11 am ABC
Camellia Bowl: Arkansas St (-1) vs Northern Illinois 11 am ESPN
Armed Forces Bowl: James Madison (-3) vs Air Force 2:30 pm ABC
Potato Bowl: Utah State (+1.5) vs. Georgia State 2:30 pm ESPN
68 Ventures Bowl: Eastern Michigan (+16) at South Alabama 6 pm ESPN
Las Vegas Bowl: Utah (-7) vs Northwestern 6:30 pm ABC
Hawaii Bowl: Coastal Carolina (+9) vs San Jose St. 9:30 pm ESPN

Tuesday Dec. 26
Quick Lane Bowl: Bowling Green (+3.5) vs Minnesota 1 pm ESPN
First Responder Bowl: Texas State (-4) vs Rice 4:30 pm ESPN
Guaranteed Rate Bowl: Kansas (-12) vs UNLV 8 pm ESPN

Wednesday Dec. 27
Military Bowl: Virginia Tech (-8) vs Tulane 1 pm ESPN
Mayo Bowl: North Carolina (+3.5) vs West Virginia 4:30 pm ESPN
Holiday Bowl: No. 15 Louisville (-7.5) vs USC 7 pm FOX
Texas Bowl: Texas A&M (-3.5) vs No. 20 Oklahoma St. 8 pm ESPN

Thursday Dec. 28
Fenway Bowl: Boston College (+10.5) vs No. 24 SMU 10 am ESPN
Pinstripe Bowl: Rutgers (+3) vs Miami 1:15 pm ESPN
Pop-Tarts Bowl: No. 18 N.C. State (+3.5) vs No. 25 Kansas St. 4:45 pm ESPN
Alamo Bowl: No. 14 Arizona (-3.5) vs No. 12 Oklahoma 8:15 pm ESPN

Friday Dec. 29
Gator Bowl: Clemson (-7) vs Kentucky 11 am ESPN
Sun Bowl: No. 16 Notre Dame (-10.5) vs No. 19 Oregon St. 1 pm CBS
Liberty Bowl: Iowa St. (-7) at Memphis 2:30 pm ESPN
Cotton Bowl: No. 9 Missouri (+2.5) vs No. 7 Ohio St. 7 pm ESPN

Saturday Dec. 30
Peach Bowl: No. 11 Ole Miss (+4) vs No. 10 Penn St. 11 am ESPN
Music City Bowl: Auburn (-2.5) vs Maryland 1 pm ABC
Orange Bowl: No. 5 Florida St (+14.5) vs No. 6 Georgia 3 pm ESPN
Arizona Bowl: Toledo (-1) vs Wyoming 3:30 pm CW

Monday Jan. 1
ReliaQuest Bowl: Wisconsin (+10) vs No. 13 LSU 11 am ESPN2
Citrus Bowl: No. 17 Iowa (+7.5) vs No. 21 Tennessee noon ABC
Fiesta Bowl: No. 8 Oregon (-16) vs No. 23 Liberty noon ESPN
Rose Bowl: No. 1 Michigan (-1.5) vs No. 4 Alabama 4 pm ESPN
Sugar Bowl: No. 2 Washington (+4) vs No. 3 Texas 7:45 pm

 

Good article here on how the bowl selections unfolded once Florida State was available and set off a chain reaction. This is why the bowl announcements took so long. Everyone's projections were completely overturned and they had to reassess and scramble.

After Florida State's Playoff snub, ACC's bowl dominoes didn't fall smoothly

 

Twas only a matter of time...

 

But they won't be employees, right?

 

Odds already out for possible championship matchups:

Additionally, the sportsbook has posted early CFP Championship game spreads for the four possible matchups. Here are those lines:

• Alabama (-3.5) vs. Texas
• Alabama (-6.5) vs. Washington
• Washington vs. Michigan (-6.5)
• Texas vs. Michigan (-3.5)

 

With the NFL playing on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, one tradition ends for at least a year. Eating the milk and cookies left for Santa (with one or two crumbs on the plate) while watching the Aloha/Hawaii Bowl.

I’ve always found it amusing how the country typically kinda shuts down on Christmas Eve for sports except for the one bowl game in Hawaii.

 

It’s a great vehicle for amplifying your first post-divorce Christmas depression.

 

Closes out the season with perhaps the best thread title yet.

Kudos to @dixiehack and @Cosmo for just consistently nailing thread titles on the football threads week after week.

You both make it look so easy to be creative, when it's clearly not that simple.

 

Are businesses bailing on sponsoring the second/third tier bowl games? Some odd companies or genetic bowl game names.

 

EIGHTEEN bowl games before Christmas? I realize you need to put them somewhere - but dang. And every bowl game but two are televised by ESPN, Sun and Arizona (which I'm sure is happy to be out of the Barstool business - though I do wonder what ESPN has against Tucson).

 

Arizona Bowl will be on Barstool as well, although they’ve announced they’re pulling the sponsorship after this year. Also the Holiday Bowl is on Fox.