The 2016-2017 college football bowl game announcements tracker

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The 2016 Potato Bowl – college football’s unquestioned top postseason game named for a vegetable – is set for Dec. 22 on Boise State’s blue turf. It’ll be the only college game of the day, though the Giants and Eagles play an NFL game, too.

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The Birmingham Bowl is set for Dec. 29 at the old Legion Field in Birmingham, Ala.

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The 11th edition of the New Mexico, nowadays sponsored by Gildan, is set for Dec. 17. It’ll be part of the single busiest day of this college football bowl season, with five other games happening between noon Eastern time and the late hours of the evening.

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The Holiday Bowl has a long history of fun games, and hopefully this year will be no different. Now known fully as the National Funding Holiday Bowl, it takes the stage in prime time on Tuesday night. This year, it features Washington State from the Pac-12 and Minnesota from the Big Ten.

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The 2016-2017 Rose Bowl may be part of the New Year’s Six, but it will not be played on New Year’s Day. Instead, Big Ten champion Penn State and USC, the highest-ranked non-Playoff team from the Pac-12, will meet on Jan. 2, thanks to the bowl’s long-standing tradition of playing on that date when New Year’s Day falls on a Sunday.

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The Valero Alamo Bowl gets going in prime time on Thursday night from San Antonio. This will be the 24th edition of the Alamo Bowl, which features tie-ins with the Big 12 and Pac-12 conferences. This year, the teams fulfilling them are Oklahoma State and Colorado, who both lost conference championship games (officially or not) on Championship Weekend.

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The bowl schedule really begins its ramp up to New Years on Friday, and the Music City Bowl is right in the middle of a crowded schedule heading into the weekend.

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The bowl lineup on New Years Eve gets started nice and early with the TaxSlayer Bowl kicking off at 11 a.m. ET.

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The Internet’s favorite bowl game, the Belk Bowl, gets underway Thursday afternoon from Charlotte. The matchup will feature Virginia Tech and Arkansas, according to the Virginia Daily Press.

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The Russell Athletic Bowl is a pretty good game. Its bowl tie-ins come from the power leagues, so it usually features talented teams. It’s played in a warm-weather climate, and it’s not such a critical bowl that teams play a buttoned-up style. This year, Miami will get to play close to home against West Virginia, per ESPN.

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The Sun Bowl is one of the longest-running bowl games in college football history, dating all the way back to 1935, the same year that the Orange and Sugar Bowl began operation. Those two New Year’s Six bowls, though, have left the Sun Bowl in their wake in terms of prestige and history — but that doesn’t mean the 2016 Sun Bowl won’t be fun.

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There’s only one non-New Year’s Six bowl happening in the calendar year 2017 this bowl season. It is, of course, the 2017 Outback Bowl, America’s favorite thing named after an Australian-themed steakhouse.

College football’s bowl season is upon us, and throughout Sunday, the bowl schedule filled in, game by game.

The College Football Playoff rolled in shortly after noon ET, with the rest of the New Year’s Six following afterward.

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Bowl season’s ramp up to New Years continues on Friday with the AutoZone Liberty Bowl kicking off the schedule heading into the weekend.

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The Foster Farms Bowl is set for Dec. 28 in California. It’s not a new bowl game, heading into its 15th year. But it feels new, because it’s played in a newish NFL stadium and has a relatively new name. (It used to go by “Fight Hunger Bowl,” “Emerald Bowl” and “San Francisco Bowl,” having debuted after the 2002 season.

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The 2016 Independence Bowl will be played the day after Christmas in Shreveport, where last year’s version of the bowl was one of the more exciting offensive shows of the season. Virginia Tech pulled off a 55-52 edging of Tulsa, and the winning team in this game has scored at least 40 points five times since 2009.

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The Texas Bowl is set for primetime on Dec. 28, a few nights ahead of bowl season’s biggest games. This one’s not a bad game at all, and it’s played in a venue that – if filled to capacity – can make for a worthwhile, fun atmosphere for all involved.

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The second-ever Nova Home Loans Arizona Bowl will get underway on the Friday before New Year’s from Tucson.

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It’s time for the third year of the Quick Lane Bowl, a college football postseason contest that got going for the first time in 2014. Its lead backer is the Detroit Lions of the NFL, and the game is played in the Lions’ Ford Field. (Its predecessor is the Little Caesar’s Bowl. Little Caesar’s pizza is not good.)

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The Military Bowl presented by Northrup Grumman takes center stage on Tuesday afternoon. The game’s features a matchup between the ACC and the American, and has been around since 2008. The game was first played in Washington D.C. at RFK Stadium, but moved to Annapolis in 2013.

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The Cactus Bowl is set for Dec. 27 in Phoenix, as part of the last few days of regular bowls before the New Year’s Six and College Football Playoff take over the world. It’ll be football in (a climate-controlled stadium in) the desert.

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It’s gone by many names, but the Citrus Bowl has become one of college football’s more prestigious bowl games outside the New Year’s Six.

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The new Yankee Stadium, the house that replaced the House that Ruth Built, hosts college football games now. It’s the site of the annual Pinstripe Bowl, which this year has automatic tie-ins for someone from the ACC against someone from the Big Ten. (It’s also the site of a future Rutgers-Maryland game, which, fine.)

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College football’s most scenic bowl game is back for another year. This will be the 15th edition of the Hawaii Bowl, which started in 2002 and has persisted as an exotic postseason destination for a couple of bowl-eligible teams every year since then.

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There’s a college football bowl game in Boca Raton, Fla. This’ll be the third year of the Boca Raton Bowl, the postseason contest most accessible to legions of folks who have retired to Florida and now reside in Boca and its surrounding areas.