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In a year that wasn’t guaranteed to happen, the college football bowl season officially has a schedule. Rejoice.
The most wonderful time of the year will kickoff on Dec. 19 and feature at least one game played through Jan. 2. The season will conclude with the College Football Playoff National Championship on Jan. 11, but let’s not look that far just yet.
All 37 bowl games will be televised and Dec. 26 will be the perfect post-Christmas hangover cure with six games slated to be played. The Montgomery Bowl and the LA Bowl will make their debuts this season, but the Fenway Bowl was scheduled to debut from Boston and will not be played. It joins the Holiday Bowl, RedBox Bowl, Bahamas Bowl and Hawai’i Bowls as the five games that have announced they will not be played this season.
Full bowl schedule (EST):
Dec. 19
Frisco Bowl, 7 p.m., ESPN
Dec. 21
Myrtle Beach Bowl, 2:30 p.m., ESPN
Dec. 22
Potato Bowl, 3:30 p.m., ESPN
Boca Raton Bowl, 7 p.m., ESPN
Dec. 23
New Orleans Bowl, 3:30 p.m., ESPN
Montgomery Bowl, 7 p.m., ESPN
Dec. 24
New Mexico Bowl, 3:30 p.m., ESPN
Dec. 25
Camellia Bowl, 2:30 p.m., ESPN
Dec. 26
Gasparilla Bowl, Noon, ABC
Cure Bowl, Noon, ESPN
First Responder Bowl, 3:30 p.m., ABC
LendingTree Bowl, 3:30 p.m., ESPN
Independence Bowl, 7 p.m., ESPN
Guaranteed Rate Bowl, 10:15 p.m., ESPN
Dec. 28
Military Bowl, 2:30 p.m., ESPN
Dec. 29
Pinstripe Bowl, 2 p.m., ESPN
Cheez-It Bowl, 5:30 p.m., ESPN
Alamo Bowl, 9 p.m., ESPN
Dec. 30
Duke’s Mayo Bowl, Noon, ESPN
Music City Bowl, 3:30 p.m., ESPN
Cotton Bowl, 7:15, ESPN
LA Bowl, 10:45 p.m., ESPN
Dec. 31
Armed Forces Bowl, Noon, ESPN
Sun Bowl, 2 p.m., CBS
Liberty Bowl, 4 p.m., ESPN
Texas Bowl, 8 p.m., ESPN
Jan. 1
Birmingham Bowl, Noon, ESPN2
Peach Bowl, 12:30 p.m. ESPN
Citrus Bowl, 1 p.m., ABC
Rose Bowl, 5 p.m., ESPN
Sugar Bowl, 8:45 p.m., ESPN
Jan. 2
Gator Bowl, Noon, ESPN
Outback Bowl, 12:30 p.m., ABC
Fiesta Bowl, 4 p.m., ESPN
Orange Bowl, 8 p.m., ESPN
Jan. 11
National championship game, 8 p.m., ESPN