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Full 2015-2016 college football bowl TV schedule, with picks for each game

How to watch all 40 bowl games and the National Championship, with our predictions for all of them.

Butch Dill-USA TODAY Sports

Hello! You clicked on this because you’d like to see a list of all the bowl games and how to watch each of them. That information is below! But first, can I interest you in some other things as well?

As for which of these games are the most must-watch, one answer is all of them. The other answers are here, where Bill Connelly used numbers to come up with the ones you’re gonna most urgently need to clear your schedule for.

Odds for each game are here, with No. 2 seed Alabama and No. 4 Oklahoma favored to win the College Football Playoff semifinals. Vegas expects the SEC to dominate bowl season, which did not exactly work out last year.

The picks below are from our big bowl calendar, which will also be updated throughout with scores and more. We had 10 of us pick the winner of each game, you see.

The full bowl TV guide:

New Mexico Bowl Arizona New Mexico Picks: 70% Arizona
Albuquerque, NM 12/19/2015 2 p.m. ET ESPN
Las Vegas Bowl BYU No. 22 Utah Picks: 90% Utah
12/19/2015 3:30 p.m. ET ABC
Camellia Bowl Appalachian State Ohio Picks: 80% App State
Montgomery, AL 12/19/2015 5:30 p.m. ET ESPN
Cure Bowl Georgia State San Jose State Picks: Even
Orlando, FL 12/19/2015 7 p.m. ET CBSSN
New Orleans Bowl Arkansas State Louisiana Tech Picks: 70% Arkansas State
12/19/2015 9 p.m. ET ESPN
Miami Beach Bowl South Florida Western Kentucky Picks: 80% WKU
12/21/2015 2:30 p.m. ET ESPN
Idaho Potato Bowl Akron Utah State Picks: 90% Utah State
Boise, ID 12/22/2015 3:30 p.m. ET ESPN
Boca Raton Bowl No. 24 Temple Toledo Picks: 80% Temple
12/22/2015 7 p.m. ET ESPN
Poinsettia Bowl Boise State Northern Illinois Picks: 90% Boise State
San Diego, CA 12/23/2015 4:30 p.m. ET ESPN
GoDaddy Bowl Bowling Green Georgia Southern Picks: 60% BGSU
Mobile, AL 12/23/2015 8 p.m. ET ESPN
Bahamas Bowl Middle Tennessee Western Michigan Picks: All WMU
Nassau, BS 12/24/2015 12 p.m. ET ESPN
Hawaii Bowl Cincinnati San Diego State Picks: 60% SDSU
Honolulu, HI 12/24/2015 8 p.m. ET ESPN
St. Petersburg Bowl Marshall UConn Picks: 70% UConn
12/26/2015 11 a.m. ET ESPN
Sun Bowl Miami Washington State Picks: 60% Wazzu
El Paso, TX 12/26/2015 2 p.m. ET CBS
Heart of Dallas Bowl Southern Miss Washington Picks: 90% Washington
12/26/2015 2:20 p.m. ET ESPN
Pinstripe Bowl Duke Indiana Picks: 70% Indiana
Bronx, NY 12/26/2015 3:30 p.m. ET ABC
Independence Bowl Tulsa Virginia Tech Picks: All VT
Shreveport, LA 12/26/2015 5:45 p.m. ET ESPN
Foster Farms Bowl Nebraska UCLA Picks: 80% UCLA
Santa Clara, CA 12/26/2015 9:15 p.m. ET ESPN
Military Bowl No. 21 Navy Pitt Picks: 90% Navy
Annapolis, MD 12/28/2015 2:30 p.m. ET ESPN
Quick Lane Bowl Central Michigan Minnesota Picks: 80% Minnesota
Detroit, MI 12/28/2015 5 p.m. ET ESPN2
Armed Forces Bowl Air Force California Picks: 70% Cal
Fort Worth, TX 12/29/2015 2 p.m. ET ESPN
Russell Athletic Bowl No. 17 Baylor No. 10 North Carolina Picks: 70% UNC
Orlando, FL 12/29/2015 5:30 p.m. ET ESPN
Arizona Bowl Colorado State Nevada Picks: 90% CSU
Tucson, AZ 12/29/2015 7:30 p.m. ET TBD
Texas Bowl No. 20 LSU Texas Tech Picks: 90% LSU
Houston, TX 12/29/2015 9 p.m. ET ESPN
Holiday Bowl No. 25 USC Wisconsin Picks: 90% USC
San Diego, CA 12/30/2015 10:30 p.m. ET ESPN
Birmingham Bowl Auburn Memphis Picks: 80% Memphis
12/30/2015 12 p.m. ET ESPN
Belk Bowl Mississippi State NC State Picks: 90% MSU
Charlotte, NC 12/30/2015 3:30 p.m. ET ESPN
Music City Bowl Louisville Texas A&M Picks: 80% A&M
Nashville, TN 12/30/2015 7 p.m. ET ESPN
Peach Bowl No. 9 Florida State No. 18 Houston Picks: 70% FSU
Atlanta, GA 12/31/2015 12 p.m. ET ESPN
Orange Bowl semifinal No. 1 Clemson No. 4 Oklahoma Picks: 70% Clemson
Miami, FL 12/31/2015 4 p.m. ET ESPN
Cotton Bowl semifinal No. 2 Alabama No. 3 Michigan State Picks: 70% Bama
Arlington, TX 12/31/2015 8 p.m. ET ESPN
Citrus Bowl No. 19 Florida No. 14 Michigan Picks: All Michigan
Orlando, FL 1/1/2016 1 p.m. ET ABC
Fiesta Bowl No. 8 Notre Dame No. 7 Ohio State Picks: 80% Ohio State
Glendale, AZ 1/1/2016 1 p.m. ET ESPN
Outback Bowl No. 13 Northwestern No. 23 Tennessee Picks: 90% Tennessee
Tampa, FL 1/1/2016 12 p.m. ET ESPN2
Rose Bowl No. 5 Iowa No. 6 Stanford Picks: 80% Stanford
Pasadena, CA 1/1/2016 5 p.m. ET ESPN
Sugar Bowl No. 16 Oklahoma State No. 12 Ole Miss Picks: 70% Ole Miss
New Orleans, LA 1/1/2016 8:30 p.m. ET ESPN
Cactus Bowl Arizona State West Virginia Picks: 90% WVU
Phoenix, AZ 1/2/2016 10:15 p.m. ET ESPN
TaxSlayer Bowl Georgia Penn State Picks: 60% Georgia
Jacksonville, FL 1/2/2016 12 p.m. ET ESPN
Liberty Bowl Arkansas Kansas State Picks: All Arkansas
Memphis, TN 1/2/2016 3:20 p.m. ET ESPN
Alamo Bowl No. 15 Oregon No. 11 TCU Picks: 70% Oregon
San Antonio, TX 1/2/2016 6:45 p.m. ET ESPN
National Championship TBD TBD Picks: Mixed, but Bama leads
Glendale, AZ 1/11/2016 8:30 p.m. ET ESPN

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