How are the bowl games determined

Sports Betting. Brett McMurphy. Download App. Without the additional bowl, two bowl-eligible teams would not be playing in the postseason. Urban Meyer Back in College? There is a hierarchy of bowl games, which we've broken up below. Higher-ranked teams from each conference fall into those "higher tier" bowl games. The rest are defined as "at-large.

This year, there are 41 bowl games and the National Championship. This means 82 teams will play in a bowl game. Teams generally must win six games to become bowl eligible.

Teams that finish the regular season below 0. In Weeks 10 and on, the biggest swaths of teams become bowl eligible or are eliminated altogether. For a complete list of bowl tie-ins, find it here. For the bowl game schedule, find that here. Utah Utes. Big Ten adds cross-divisional games to '22 slate. Penn State Nittany Lions.

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These are the six holiday-season bowls the College Football Playoff Selection Committee have deemed the most important historically. Every three years, two of these bowls will serve as national semifinal games for the College Football Playoff. Three of these bowls also have Power Five conference tie-ins. In years where the bowl is not part of the playoff, the Rose Bowl will feature a Big Ten team vs. Those do not change. The three other bowl games have no tie-ins.