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The 2008–09 NCAA football bowl games, which concluded the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season, contained a record number of bowl games scheduled in college football history. A total of 37 bowl games, 34 team-competitive games and three all-star games, were played starting on December 20, 2008, with four contests and concluding with the ...
As a result, the NCAA on April 30, 2008, later approved two new bowl games for the 2008–09 post season: The EagleBank Bowl (née Congressional Bowl), which will be played at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. will pit an ACC team against either Army or Navy, while the new St. Petersburg Bowl, to be played at Tropicana Field in the Florida City ...
For nearly a century, bowl games were the purview of only the very best teams, but a steady proliferation of new bowl games required more teams, with 70 participating teams by the 2010–11 bowl season, then 80 participating teams by the 2015–16 bowl season. As a result, the NCAA has steadily relaxed the criteria for bowl eligibility.
Bowl Game schedule. There are 46 games on the college football postseason schedule this season, with the expansion of the College Football Playoff adding to the intrigue to the bowl season. The ...
Alabama's 2008 schedule was officially released on January 4, 2008. [11] It featured six pre-season AP Top 25 teams, five of which were ranked in the top 10, eight of which made bowl games in 2007. [11] [12] In accordance with conference rules, Alabama faced all five Western Division opponents: Arkansas, Auburn, LSU, Mississippi State, and Ole ...
The regular season began on August 28, 2008, and ended on December 6, 2008. The postseason concluded on January 8, 2009, with the BCS National Championship Game in Miami Gardens, Florida , which featured the top two teams ranked by the Bowl Championship Series (BCS): the No. 2 Florida Gators (No. 1 in the AP Poll ) and No. 1 Oklahoma Sooners ...
The first round of the highly anticipated 12-team College Football Playoff format kicks off in less than a month on Friday, Dec. 20 with a primetime Friday night game.
SEC Bowl Games Game Date Location/Time* Television Winner + Score Loser + Score Attendance Payout Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl: December 31, 2008 LP Field Nashville, Tennessee 2:30 p.m. ESPN: Vanderbilt: 16 Boston College: 14 54,250: $1,700,000 Chick-fil-A Bowl: December 31, 2008 Georgia Dome Atlanta, Georgia 6:30 p.m. ESPN: LSU: 38 Georgia ...