The 2025-26 college football bowl schedule is set, including the matchups for the first round of the College Football Playoff. Indiana is the No. 1 seed in the CFP, while Notre Dame surprisingly missed out on the CFP altogether and won’t play in any bowl game as a result.
There are plenty of teams playing in bowls, though, and below are all of the matchups (and odds, courtesy of BetMGM), as bowl season spans over five weeks — starting Dec. 13 and ending on Jan. 19.
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All times are Eastern.
Saturday, Dec. 13
Bucked Up LA Bowl, 8 p.m., ABC
Tuesday, Dec. 16
IS4S Salute to Veterans Bowl, 9 p.m., ESPN
Wednesday, Dec. 17
StaffDNA Cure Bowl, 5 p.m., ESPN
68 Ventures Bowl, 8:30 p.m., ESPN
Thursday, Dec. 18
Xbox Bowl, 9 p.m., ESPN2
Friday, Dec. 19
Myrtle Beach Bowl, 11 a.m., ESPN
Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl, 2:30 p.m., ESPN
College Football Playoff first-round game, 8 p.m., ABC
Saturday, Dec. 20
College Football Playoff first-round game, Noon, ABC
College Football Playoff first-round game, 3:30 p.m., TNT
College Football Playoff first-round game, 7:30 p.m., TNT
Monday, Dec. 22
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, 2 p.m., ESPN
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Tuesday, Dec. 23
Bush’s Boca Raton Bowl of Beans, 2 p.m. ESPN
New Orleans Bowl, 5:30 p.m., ESPN
Scooter’s Coffee Frisco Bowl, 9 p.m., ESPN
Wednesday, Dec. 24
Sheraton Hawaii Bowl, 8 p.m., ESPN
Friday, Dec. 26
GameAbove Sports Bowl, 1 p.m., ESPN
Rate Bowl, 4:30 p.m., ESPN
ServPro First Responder Bowl, 8 p.m., ESPN
Saturday, Dec. 27
Go Bowling Military Bowl, 11 a.m., ESPN
Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl, Noon, ABC
Wasabi Fenway Bowl, 2:15 p.m., ESPN
Pop-Tarts Bowl, 3:30 p.m., ABC
Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl, 4:30 p.m., CW
Isleta New Mexico Bowl, 5:45 p.m., ESPN
TaxSlayer Gator Bowl, 7:30 p.m., ABC
Kinder’s Texas Bowl, 9:15 p.m., ESPN
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Monday, Dec. 29
JLAB Birmingham Bowl, 2 p.m., ESPN
Tuesday, Dec. 30
Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl, 2 p.m., ESPN
Liberty Mutual Music City Bowl, 5:30 p.m., ESPN
Valero Alamo Bowl, 9 p.m., ESPN
Wednesday, Dec. 31
ReliaQuest Bowl, Noon, ESPN
Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, 2 p.m., CBS
Cheez-It Citrus Bowl, 3 p.m., ABC
SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl, 3:30 p.m., ESPN
Goodyear Cotton Bowl (College Football Playoff quarterfinal), 7:30 p.m., ESPN
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Thursday, Jan. 1
Capital One Orange Bowl (College Football Playoff quarterfinal), Noon, ESPN
Rose Bowl presented by Prudential (College Football Playoff quarterfinal), 4 p.m., ESPN
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Allstate Sugar Bowl (College Football Playoff quarterfinal), 8 p.m., ESPN
Friday, Jan. 2
Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl, 1 p.m., ESPN
AutoZone Liberty Bowl, 4:30 p.m., ESPN
Duke’s Mayo Bowl, 8 p.m., ESPN
Holiday Bowl, 8 p.m., FOX
Thursday, Jan. 8
Vrbo Fiesta Bowl (College Football Playoff semifinal), 7:30 p.m., ESPN
Friday, Jan. 9
Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl (College Football Playoff semifinal), 7:30 p.m., ESPN
Monday, Jan. 19
National Championship Game, 7:30 p.m., ESPN
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