*** 2025-26 Bowl/Playoff Games Thread ***

[BigJCy]

Saturday, Dec 13, 2025

Bowl	Location	Time (ET) / TV
Cricket Celebration Bowl SC State vs. Prairie View A&M	Atlanta, GA	12:00pm ET ABC
Bucked Up LA Bowl Hosted by Gronk Boise State vs. Washington	Inglewood, CA	8:00pm ET ABC

Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025

Bowl	Location	Time (ET) / TV
IS4S Salute to Veterans Bowl Troy vs. Jacksonville State	Montgomery, AL	9:00pm ET ESPN

Wednesday, Dec 17, 2025

Bowl	Location	Time (ET) / TV
StaffDNA Cure Bowl Old Dominion vs. USF	Orlando, FL	5:00pm ET ESPN
68 Ventures Bowl Louisiana vs. Delaware	Mobile, AL	8:30pm ET ESPN

Thursday, Dec 18, 2025

Bowl	Location	Time (ET) / TV
Xbox Bowl Missouri State vs. Arkansas State	Frisco, TX	9:00pm ET ESPN2

Friday, Dec 19, 2025

Bowl	Location	Time (ET) / TV
Myrtle Beach Bowl Kennesaw State vs. Western Michigan	Conway, SC	11:00am ET ESPN
Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl NC State vs. Memphis	Tampa, FL	2:30pm ET ESPN
CFP First-Round Game 9 Alabama vs. 8 Oklahoma	Norman, OK	8:00pm ET ABC/ESPN

Saturday, Dec 20, 2025

Bowl	Location	Time (ET) / TV
CFP First-Round Game 10 Miami (FL) vs. 7 Texas A&M	College Station, TX	12:00pm ET ABC/ESPN
CFP First-Round Game 20 Tulane vs. 6 Ole Miss	Oxford, MS	3:30pm ET TNT/truTV/HBO Max
CFP First-Round Game 24 James Madison vs. 5 Oregon	Eugene, OR	7:30pm ET TNT/truTV/HBO Max

Monday, Dec 22, 2025

Bowl	Location	Time (ET) / TV
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Washington State vs. Utah State	Boise, ID	2:00pm ET ESPN

Tuesday, Dec 23, 2025

Bowl	Location	Time (ET) / TV
Bush's Boca Raton Bowl of Beans Louisville vs. Toledo	Boca Raton, FL	2:00pm ET ESPN
New Orleans Bowl WKU vs. Southern Miss	New Orleans, LA	5:30pm ET ESPN
Scooter's Coffee Frisco Bowl UNLV vs. Ohio	Frisco, TX	9:00pm ET ESPN

Wednesday, Dec 24, 2025

Bowl	Location	Time (ET) / TV
Sheraton Hawai'i Bowl California vs. Hawaii	Honolulu, HI	8:00pm ET ESPN

Friday, Dec 26, 2025

Bowl	Location	Time (ET) / TV
GameAbove Sports Bowl Central Michigan vs. Northwestern	Detroit, MI	1:00pm ET ESPN
Rate Bowl New Mexico vs. Minnesota	Phoenix, AZ	4:30pm ET ESPN
SERVPRO First Responder Bowl FIU vs. UTSA	Dallas, TX	8:00pm ET ESPN

Saturday, Dec 27, 2025

Bowl	Location	Time (ET) / TV
Go Bowling Military Bowl Pitt vs. East Carolina	Annapolis, MD	11:00am ET ESPN
Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl Clemson vs. Penn State	Bronx, NY	12:00pm ET ABC
Wasabi Fenway Bowl UConn vs. Army	Boston, MA	2:15pm ET ESPN
Pop-Tarts Bowl 22 Georgia Tech vs. 12 BYU	Orlando, FL	3:30pm ET ABC
Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl Miami (OH) vs. Fresno State	Tucson, AZ	4:30pm ET The CW
Isleta New Mexico Bowl 25 North Texas vs. San Diego State	Albuquerque, NM	5:45pm ET ESPN
TaxSlayer Gator Bowl 19 Virginia vs. Missouri	Jacksonville, FL	7:30pm ET ABC
Kinder's Texas Bowl LSU vs. 21 Houston	Houston, TX	9:15pm ET ESPN

Monday, Dec 29, 2025

Bowl	Location	Time (ET) / TV
JLab Birmingham Bowl Georgia Southern vs. Appalachian State	Birmingham, AL	2:00pm ET ESPN

Tuesday, Dec 30, 2025

Bowl	Location	Time (ET) / TV
Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl Coastal Carolina vs. Louisiana Tech	Shreveport, LA	2:00pm ET ESPN
Liberty Mutual Music City Bowl Tennessee vs. Illinois	Nashville, TN	5:30pm ET ESPN
Valero Alamo Bowl 16 USC vs. TCU	San Antonio, TX	9:00pm ET ESPN

Wednesday, Dec 31, 2025

Bowl	Location	Time (ET) / TV
ReliaQuest Bowl 23 Iowa vs. 14 Vanderbilt	Tampa, FL	12:00pm ET ESPN
Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl Duke vs. Arizona State	El Paso, TX	2:00pm ET CBS/Paramount+
Cheez-It Citrus Bowl 18 Michigan vs. 13 Texas	Orlando, FL	3:00pm ET ABC
SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl Nebraska vs. 15 Utah	Las Vegas, NV	3:30pm ET ESPN
Goodyear Cotton Bowl Miami/Texas A&M vs. 2 Ohio State	Arlington, TX	7:30pm ET ESPN

 

[BigJCy]

Thursday, Jan 1, 2026

Bowl	Location	Time (ET) / TV
Capital One Orange Bowl JMU/Oregon vs. 4 Texas Tech	Miami Gardens, FL	12:00pm ET ESPN
Rose Bowl Game Alabama/Oklahoma vs. 1 Indiana	Pasadena, CA	4:00pm ET ESPN
Allstate Sugar Bowl Ole Miss/Tulane vs. 3 Georgia	New Orleans, LA	8:00pm ET ESPN

Friday, Jan 2, 2026

Bowl	Location	Time (ET) / TV
Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl Rice vs. Texas State	Fort Worth, TX	1:00pm ET ESPN
AutoZone Liberty Bowl Navy vs. Cincinnati	Memphis, TN	4:30pm ET ESPN
Holiday Bowl SMU vs. 17 Arizona	San Diego, CA	8:00pm ET FOX
Duke's Mayo Bowl Wake Forest vs. Mississippi State	Charlotte, NC	8:00pm ET ESPN

Thursday, Jan 8, 2026

Bowl	Location	Time (ET) / TV
Vrbo Fiesta Bowl CFP Semifinal	Glendale, AZ	7:30pm ET ESPN

Friday, Jan 9, 2026

Bowl	Location	Time (ET) / TV
Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl CFP Semifinal	Atlanta, GA	7:30pm ET ESPN

Monday, Jan 19, 2026

Bowl	Location	Time (ET) / TV
CFP National Championship Semifinal Winners	Miami Gardens, FL	7:30pm ET ESPN

 

[BigJCy]

 

[JP4CY]

Clemson vs PSU. Beginning of the year, we would have assumed playoffs.

 

[Erik4Cy]

That is beyond embarrassing. Bowl season is dead. I used to look forward to it and this is the least excited I've ever been to watch.

 

[AlaCyclone]

They need to pick A-U-B-U-R-N!

 

[BigJCy]

They need to pick A-U-B-U-R-N!

Added an update, guess Auburn declined as well.

 

[AlaCyclone]

Added an update, guess Auburn declined as well.

Bummer, man. Real bummer.

 

[BigJCy]

That is beyond embarrassing. Bowl season is dead. I used to look forward to it and this is the least excited I've ever been to watch.

Yeah I'm a CFB junkie and even I must admit there are very few appealing games in that Bowl slate.

 

[BigJCy]

 

[Gorm]

So will the Big 12 be issuing fines to UCF and Baylor?

 

[BigJCy]

So will the Big 12 be issuing fines to UCF and Baylor?

Guessing not

 

[AlaCyclone]

So will the Big 12 be issuing fines to UCF and Baylor?

Kansas TOO! Don't forget Kansas!

 

[Cy83ag]

Don't forget Kansas.

So will the Big 12 be issuing fines to UCF and Baylor

 

[GoHawks]

They need to cut back on bowl games and bowls need to do something like players era tournament where they pay the participating players.

 

[BigJCy]

 

[AlaCyclone]

So, we have an old SoCon and current Sun Belt Rivalry Game! They are actually in the same division of the Sun Belt and played earlier in the year won by GSU 25-23 @ App State!

 

[BigJCy]

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[cyclones500]

Clemson vs PSU. Beginning of the year, we would have assumed playoffs.

I almost forgot Clemson exists!

 

[cyclones500]

This might've been discussed in related threads or in news updates about the bowl selections. If Iowa State hadn't done opt-out, do we know what bowl was mostly likely to take us?