2023–24 NCAA football bowl games: Difference between revisions

{{see also|2023 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings}}

{{see also|2023 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings}}

The College Football Playoff (CFP) selection committee announced its final team rankings for the season on December 3, 2023. It was the tenth season of the CFP era. This was the first time that an undefeated [[Power Five conference]] champion ([[2023 Florida State Seminoles football team|Florida State]]) was left out of the semifinals.{{cite web |author= |date=December 3, 2023 |url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39033995/michigan-washington-texas-alabama-vie-title |title=CFP: Michigan, Washington, Texas, Alabama to Vie for Title |work=ESPN |access-date=December 3, 2023}}

The College Football Playoff (CFP) selection committee announced its final team rankings for the season on December 3, 2023. It was the tenth season of the CFP era. This was the first time that an undefeated [[Power Five conference]] champion ([[2023 Florida State Seminoles football team|Florida State]]) was left out of the semifinals.{{cite web |author= |date=December 3, 2023 |url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39033995/michigan-washington-texas-alabama-vie-title |title=CFP: Michigan, Washington, Texas, Alabama to Vie for Title |work=ESPN |access-date=December 3, 2023}}

Series of college football bowl games following the 2023 season

The 2023–24 NCAA football bowl games is a series of college football games scheduled to primarily complete the 2023 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Team-competitive games are set to begin in mid-December and conclude with the 2024 College Football Playoff National Championship on January 8, 2024.

Schedule[edit]

The schedule for the 2023–24 bowl games, announced in May 2023, is below. All times are EST (UTC−5).

Division I FBS bowl games[edit]

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Locations of 2023–24 CFP bowls
– National Championship, – Semifinal Bowl, – Non-semifinal bowl

The College Football Playoff system is used to determine a national championship of Division I FBS college football. A committee of experts will rank the top 25 teams in the nation after each of the last seven weeks of the regular season. The top four teams^[c] in the final ranking are then seeded in a single-elimination semifinal round, with the winners advancing to the National Championship game.

The semifinal games for the 2023 season are the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl. Both will be played on January 1, 2024, as part of a yearly rotation of three pairs of two bowls, commonly referred to as the New Year’s Six bowl games. The winners will advance to the 2024 College Football Playoff National Championship to be contested on January 8, 2024, at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas.

On December 3, 2023, the College Football Playoff committee announced that it had selected Michigan, Washington, Texas, and Alabama to participate in the 2023-24 College Football Playoff. The committee’s decision to select Alabama instead of Florida State, who became the first undefeated Power Five conference team to not qualify for the playoff, received intense criticism from fans, writers, and commentators. Specifically, several of these viewers accused the committee of corruption, bias, and favoritism towards the Southeastern Conference.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

Each of the games in the following table is scheduled to be televised by ESPN.

† Semifinal teams are chosen by the selection committee

‡ Semifinal winners advance to the championship game

Non-CFP bowl games[edit]

Several bowl name changes were made, as compared to the prior season’s bowl games:

The “affiliations” column reflects conference tie-ins for each bowl; the conference affiliations of teams actually invited may vary based on bowl eligibility and other factors.