The 2026-27 FBS bowl season starts on Tuesday, December 15, with the IS4S Salute to Veterans Bowl in Montgomery, Alabama, and ends on Monday, January 25, 2027, with the College Football Playoff National Championship at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Every game, with its kickoff time, TV network and stadium, is in the schedule below.
No teams are in any of these games yet. Bowl matchups are set once the regular season and the conference championship games are over, and the 12-team playoff field comes from the selection committee’s final ranking.
How many bowl games are there
The official 2026-27 schedule lists 35 FBS bowl games outside the playoff. The playoff adds 11 more: four first-round games, four quarterfinals, two semifinals and the national championship. The six playoff bowls this season are the Fiesta, Peach, Cotton and Rose as quarterfinals, and the Orange and Sugar as semifinals.
Four of the 35 were not on last season’s schedule: the Frisco Football Classic, the Puerto Rico Bowl, the SDCCU Poinsettia Bowl and the Cactus Bowl. The FCS Celebration Bowl opens the whole calendar on Saturday, December 12, in Atlanta.
The 2026-27 bowl schedule
All times are Eastern, as the official schedule lists them on October 25, 2026. TBD means the schedule has not set it yet.
| Date | Kickoff (ET) | Game | TV | Stadium, city |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat Dec 12 | 12:00 pm | Cricket Celebration Bowl presented by Toyota (FCS) | ABC | Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, GA |
| Tue Dec 15 | 5:30 pm | IS4S Salute to Veterans Bowl | ESPN | Cramton Bowl, Montgomery, AL |
| Tue Dec 15 | 9:00 pm | Frisco Football Classic | ESPN | Ford Center at The Star, Frisco, TX |
| Fri Dec 18 | 11:00 am | Boca Raton Bowl | ESPN | Flagler Credit Union Stadium, Boca Raton, FL |
| Fri Dec 18 | 2:30 pm | Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl | ESPN | Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, FL |
| Fri Dec 18 | 8:00 pm | College Football Playoff first round | TBD | Site TBD |
| Sat Dec 19 | 12:00 pm | College Football Playoff first round | TBD | Site TBD |
| Sat Dec 19 | 3:30 pm | College Football Playoff first round | TBD | Site TBD |
| Sat Dec 19 | 7:30 pm | College Football Playoff first round | TBD | Site TBD |
| Mon Dec 21 | 11:00 am | Myrtle Beach Bowl | ESPN | Brooks Stadium, Conway, SC |
| Mon Dec 21 | 2:30 pm | Famous Idaho Potato Bowl | ESPN | Albertsons Stadium, Boise, ID |
| Tue Dec 22 | 1:30 pm | Puerto Rico Bowl | ESPN | Juan Ramón Loubriel Stadium, Bayamón, PR |
| Tue Dec 22 | 5:00 pm | StaffDNA Cure Bowl | ESPN | Acrisure Bounce House, Orlando, FL |
| Tue Dec 22 | 8:30 pm | Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl | ESPN | Independence Stadium, Shreveport, LA |
| Wed Dec 23 | 2:00 pm | New Orleans Bowl | ESPN | Caesars Superdome, New Orleans, LA |
| Wed Dec 23 | 5:30 pm | Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl | ESPN | Amon G. Carter Stadium, Fort Worth, TX |
| Wed Dec 23 | 7:30 pm | SDCCU Poinsettia Bowl | The CW | Snapdragon Stadium, San Diego, CA |
| Wed Dec 23 | 9:00 pm | Frisco Bowl | ESPN | Ford Center at The Star, Frisco, TX |
| Thu Dec 24 | 2:30 pm | Isleta New Mexico Bowl | ESPN | University Stadium, Albuquerque, NM |
| Thu Dec 24 | 7:00 pm | Sheraton Hawai’i Bowl | ESPN | Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex, Honolulu, HI |
| Sat Dec 26 | 12:00 pm | Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl | ABC | Yankee Stadium, Bronx, NY |
| Sat Dec 26 | 2:00 pm | Wasabi Fenway Bowl | ESPN | Fenway Park, Boston, MA |
| Sat Dec 26 | 3:30 pm | Duke’s Mayo Bowl | ABC | Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, NC |
| Sat Dec 26 | 5:30 pm | 68 Ventures Bowl | ESPN | Hancock Whitney Stadium, Mobile, AL |
| Sat Dec 26 | 7:30 pm | Cactus Bowl | ABC | Mountain America Stadium, Tempe, AZ |
| Mon Dec 28 | 2:00 pm | Freedom Mortgage Military Bowl | ESPN | Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, Annapolis, MD |
| Mon Dec 28 | 5:00 pm | Holiday Bowl | The CW | Snapdragon Stadium, San Diego, CA |
| Tue Dec 29 | 2:00 pm | JLab Birmingham Bowl | ESPN | Protective Stadium, Birmingham, AL |
| Tue Dec 29 | 5:30 pm | Pop-Tarts Bowl | ESPN | Camping World Stadium, Orlando, FL |
| Tue Dec 29 | 9:00 pm | Valero Alamo Bowl | ESPN | Alamodome, San Antonio, TX |
| Wed Dec 30 | 11:30 am | TaxSlayer Gator Bowl | ESPN | EverBank Stadium, Jacksonville, FL |
| Wed Dec 30 | 3:00 pm | Liberty Mutual Music City Bowl | ESPN | Nissan Stadium, Nashville, TN |
| Wed Dec 30 | 7:30 pm | Vrbo Fiesta Bowl (playoff quarterfinal) | TNT, truTV, HBO Max | State Farm Stadium, Glendale, AZ |
| Thu Dec 31 | 12:00 pm | ReliaQuest Bowl | ESPN | Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, FL |
| Thu Dec 31 | 2:00 pm | Old El Paso Sun Bowl | CBS | Sun Bowl Stadium, El Paso, TX |
| Thu Dec 31 | 3:45 pm | Las Vegas Bowl | ESPN | Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, NV |
| Thu Dec 31 | 7:30 pm | Kinder’s Texas Bowl | ESPN | NRG Stadium, Houston, TX |
| Fri Jan 1 | time TBD | Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl (playoff quarterfinal) | TBD | Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, GA |
| Fri Jan 1 | time TBD | Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic (playoff quarterfinal) | TBD | AT&T Stadium, Arlington, TX |
| Fri Jan 1 | time TBD | Rose Bowl Game presented by Prudential (playoff quarterfinal) | TBD | Rose Bowl Stadium, Pasadena, CA |
| Sat Jan 2 | 12:00 pm | Citrus Bowl | ABC | Camping World Stadium, Orlando, FL |
| Sat Jan 2 | 3:30 pm | SERVPRO First Responder Bowl | ABC | Gerald J. Ford Stadium, Dallas, TX |
| Sat Jan 2 | 4:30 pm | Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl presented by Gin & Juice by Dre and Snoop | The CW | Casino del Sol Stadium, Tucson, AZ |
| Sat Jan 2 | 7:30 pm | AutoZone Liberty Bowl | ABC | Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium, Memphis, TN |
| Thu Jan 14 | 7:30 pm | Capital One Orange Bowl (playoff semifinal) | TNT, truTV, HBO Max | Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, FL |
| Fri Jan 15 | 7:30 pm | Allstate Sugar Bowl (playoff semifinal) | ABC, ESPN | Caesars Superdome, New Orleans, LA |
| Mon Jan 25 | 7:30 pm | College Football Playoff National Championship | ABC, ESPN | Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, NV |
Last season’s playoff
Indiana won the 2025-26 national championship, beating Miami 27-21 at Hard Rock Stadium on January 19, 2026. Indiana reached the final by beating Oregon 56-22 in the Peach Bowl semifinal, and Miami by beating Ole Miss 31-27 in the Fiesta Bowl semifinal.
Odds and predictions for bowl season
Once the matchups are set, each bowl game we cover gets its own prediction on our college football predictions hub. The four games of December 31 are on our New Year’s Eve bowl games page, and the title race is on our college football playoff odds and national championship odds pages.
For the sponsors behind the names in the table, from the Duke’s Mayo Bowl to the Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl, see our bowl game names page.
Schedule: Coca-Cola Bowl Season official 2026-27 schedule (bowlseason.com) and the College Football Playoff schedule (collegefootballplayoff.com), read October 25, 2026, 15:20 UTC. 2025-26 results: ESPN, same day.