Update: All set. We’ll be back with more Monday on the best games to watch and more.
The complete 2015-2016 college football bowl games schedule
It’s college football’s selection Sunday, and the full slate is now here.
Welcome to bowl season. We made it.
Sunday, we find out exactly which teams are going to every college football bowl game, from the College Football Playoff to the New Orleans Bowl. This year, the Cotton and the Orange are the semifinals, and sure top-two seeds Alabama and Clemson will host, respectively. They’ll play Michigan State and Oklahoma, though we’ll wait to find out who’s going where and who has what ranking.
We already have pretty good guesses of who’s going just about everywhere else (here’s the early-Sunday edition of those guesses), and we’ll know the Playoff field for sure around 12:30 p.m. ET. Everything else should rapidly start to fall into place after that, though a few games were announced well ahead of time and others were already too obvious to leave blank on the schedule below.
We’ll update this as matchups roll in, and as of right now, here’s how the whole thing stands.
| College Football Playoff | |||||
| National Championship | January 11 | Glendale, AZ | Cotton winner vs. Orange winner | ||
| Cotton | No. 2 Alabama | No. 3 Michigan State | December 31 | Arlington, TX | Playoff rankings top 4 |
| Orange | No. 1 Clemson | No. 4 Oklahoma | December 31 | Miami | Playoff rankings top 4 |
| New Year's Six bowls | |||||
| Fiesta | No. 8 Notre Dame | No. 7 Ohio State | January 1 | Glendale, AZ | At-large |
| Rose | No. 5 Iowa | No. 6 Stanford | January 1 | Pasadena, CA | Big Ten 1 vs. Pac-12 1 |
| Sugar | No. 16 Oklahoma State | No. 12 Ole Miss | January 1 | New Orleans | Big 12 1 vs. SEC 1 |
| Peach | No. 9 Florida State | No. 18 Houston | December 31 | Atlanta | At-large |
| Bowl (* = filling another conference's bid) | Conferences ties and selection order, not based on standings | ||||
| Alamo | TCU | Oregon | January 2 | San Antonio | Big 12 2 vs. Pac-12 2 |
| Cactus | West Virginia | Arizona State | January 2 | Tempe, AZ | Big 12 6 vs. Pac-12 7 |
| Liberty | Kansas State | Arkansas | January 2 | Memphis | Big 12 5 vs. SEC 3-8 |
| TaxSlayer | Penn State | Georgia | January 2 | Jacksonville, FL | ACC 3-6/Big Ten 5-7 vs. SEC 3-8 |
| Citrus | Michigan | Florida | January 1 | Orlando | Big Ten 2-4 vs. SEC 2 |
| Outback | Northwestern | Tennessee | January 1 | Tampa | Big Ten 2-4 vs. SEC 3-8 |
| Belk | NC State | Mississippi State | December 30 | Charlotte | ACC 3-6 vs. SEC 3-8 |
| Birmingham | Memphis | Auburn | December 30 | Birmingham, AL | American vs. SEC 9 |
| Holiday | Wisconsin | USC | December 30 | San Diego | Big Ten 2-4 vs. Pac-12 3 |
| Music City | Louisville | Texas A&M | December 30 | Nashville | ACC 3-6/Big Ten 5-7 vs. SEC 3-8 |
| Arizona | Colorado State | Nevada | December 29 | Tucson | C-USA vs. MWC |
| Armed Forces | Cal | Air Force | December 29 | Fort Worth, TX | Big Ten vs. MWC |
| Russell Athletic | North Carolina | Baylor | December 29 | Orlando | ACC 2 vs. Big 12 3 |
| Texas | Texas Tech | LSU | December 29 | Houston | Big 12 4 vs. SEC 3-8 |
| Military | Pitt | Navy | December 28 | Annapolis, MD | ACC vs. American |
| Quick Lane | Central Michigan | Minnesota | December 28 | Detroit | ACC vs. Big Ten |
| Foster Farms | Nebraska | UCLA | December 26 | Santa Clara, CA | Big Ten 5-7 vs. Pac-12 4 |
| Heart of Dallas | Washington | Southern Miss | December 26 | Dallas | Big 12 7 vs. C-USA |
| Independence | Virginia Tech | Tulsa | December 26 | Shreveport, LA | ACC vs. SEC (C-USA backup) |
| Pinstripe | Duke | Indiana | December 26 | New York City | ACC 3-6 vs. Big Ten 5-7 |
| St. Petersburg | UConn | Marshall | December 26 | St. Petersburg, FL | American vs. C-USA |
| Sun | Miami | Washington State | December 26 | El Paso | ACC 3-6 vs. Pac-12 5 |
| Bahamas | Middle Tennessee | Western Michigan | December 24 | Nassau, BS | C-USA vs. MAC |
| Hawaii | Cincinnati | San Diego State | December 24 | Honolulu | American vs. MWC/BYU |
| GoDaddy | Bowling Green | Georgia Southern | December 23 | Mobile, AL | MAC 1 vs. Sun Belt 2 |
| Poinsettia | Boise State | Northern Illinois | December 23 | San Diego | MWC vs. Army |
| Boca Raton | Temple | Toledo | December 22 | Boca Raton, FL | American vs. MAC |
| Potato | Akron | Utah State | December 22 | Boise, ID | MAC 2 vs. MWC |
| Miami Beach | USF | Western Kentucky | December 21 | Miami | American vs. C-USA |
| Camelia | Ohio | Appalachian State | December 19 | Montgomery, AL | MAC 3 vs. Sun Belt 3 |
| Cure | San Jose State | Georgia State | December 19 | Orlando | American vs. Sun Belt |
| Las Vegas | BYU | Utah | December 19 | Las Vegas | MWC 1/BYU vs. Pac-12 6 |
| New Mexico | Arizona | New Mexico | December 19 | Albuquerque | C-USA vs. MWC |
| New Orleans | Arkansas State | Louisiana Tech | December 19 | New Orleans | Sun Belt 1 vs. C-USA |
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