2017–18 NCAA football bowl games

This marks only the second time in seven years that no teams with losing seasons (6–7 or 5–7) had to be invited to fill available bowl berths.

The top four teams in the final ranking played a single-elimination semifinal round, with the winners advancing to the National Championship game.

Their winners advanced to the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 8, 2018.

On December 3, 2017, the College Football Playoff selection committee announced their final team rankings for the year.

[9] In the fourth year of the College Football Playoff era, this was the first time that two of the four semifinalists were from the same conference (Georgia and Alabama of the SEC).