NCAA football bowl games, 2008-09

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The 2008-09 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision College Football Post-Season, which will follow the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season will contain a record number of bowl games scheduled in history, as a total of 34 bowl games (exempting the All-Star Games) will be played starting on December 20th 2008 with four contests and running through the 2009 BCS National Championship Game in Miami Gardens, Florida to be played on January 8th at Dolphin Stadium.

The NCAA divided Division I schools into two divisions starting in 1978: The Football Bowl Subdivision (known as Division I-A from 1978 through 2005) does not have a playoff system, and rewards schools which have football programs with outstanding records on the field during a season to play in in bowl games as a reward. The Football Championship Subdivision (known through this same period as Division I-AA) plays in a sixteen-team, single elimination tournament for a recognized national championship, with the notable exception of The Ivy League, which abstains from football playoff participation in this division.

Besides the current 32 games (including those in the BCS), the NCAA formally approved two new games: The Congressional Bowl, to be played in Washington, DC at Nationals Park, which will be the first Bowl Game to be played on December 20th with an 11 AM kickoff and The St. Petersburg Bowl, played in the Florida namesake city at Tropicana Field[1]. This will mean that 68 teams out of 119 in the FBS could be bowl eligible provided they meet certain criteria listed below.

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[edit] Selection of the teams

NCAA bylaws require that a school with a record of 6-6 in regular season play are eligible only after conferences cannot fill out available positions for bowl games with teams having seven (or more) wins automatically eligible, excluding games played in Hawaiʻi and conference championship games in the ACC, Big 12, Conference USA and the SEC. An example was in 2007 when the Big Ten and Big 12 each had two teams selected for the Bowl Championship Series games - Ohio State and Illinois from the Big Ten and Kansas and Oklahoma from the Big 12. As a result, when all the pieces were finally put together, Northwestern and Iowa of the Big Ten were odd teams out from that conference. However, with two teams in the BCS as well, the Big 12 did not have enough teams to fufill their required bowl slots, so their spot in the Texas Bowl was forefitted and given to Texas Christian University.

[edit] 2008-09 Schedule[2]

All kickoff times US EST

[edit] Non-BCS Contests

[edit] December 20

[edit] December 21

[edit] December 23

[edit] December 24 (Christmas Eve)

[edit] December 26

[edit] December 27

[edit] December 28

[edit] December 29

[edit] December 30

[edit] December 31 (New Years Eve)

[edit] January 1 (New Years Day)

[edit] January 2

[edit] January 3

[edit] January 6

[edit] Bowl Championship Series

[edit] January 1

[edit] January 2

  • Allstate Sugar Bowl (Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana, Fox, 8 PM; SEC Champion or BCS at-large vs BCS at-large)

[edit] January 5

[edit] January 8

[edit] References

  1. ^ "St. Petersburg, Washington will host bowl games in 2008", ESPN, 2008-04-30. Retrieved on 2008-05-02. 
  2. ^ 2008-09 Bowl Schedule - NCAA Football - CBSSports.com Live Scores, Standings, Stats

[edit] External links

Preceded by
NCAA football bowl games, 2007-08		 NCAA Bowl Games, by year
2008-2009		 Succeeded by
NCAA football bowl games, 2009-10