2021–22 NCAA football bowl games

A 13-member committee of experts ranked the top 25 teams in the nation after each of the last seven weeks of the regular season.

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

The winners advanced to the 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship on January 10, 2022.

[4] On December 2, 2021, the NCAA approved a 42nd bowl game, later named the Frisco Football Classic, in order to accommodate all 84 bowl-eligible teams.

[5] On December 22, Texas A&M withdrew from the Gator Bowl, citing a breakout of positive COVID-19 cases and season-ending injuries limiting them to too few players.

[13] On December 28, the Holiday Bowl was called off hours before game time, due to COVID-19 issues within the UCLA Bruins program,[14] and officially canceled the next morning, after organizers could not secure a replacement team to face the NC State Wolfpack.

The FCS also has a postseason bracket tournament that culminates in the 2022 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game.

A new all-star game, the HBCU Legacy Bowl, was announced in March 2021, and concluded the overall college football post-season on February 19, 2022.

On December 5, 2021, the College Football Playoff (CFP) selection committee announced its final team rankings for the year.

[31] Michigan became the first team to make the playoffs after starting the season unranked in the AP Poll.

The NCAA announced on December 23 that Rutgers was the first eligible team, under APR regulations, to replace Texas A&M in the Gator Bowl.