List of college bowl games

Besides the six bowl games that are part of the College Football Playoff, there are a number of other postseason invitationals.

For instance, the Rose Bowl traditionally features the Big Ten and Pac-12 conference champions.

Generally, the payout to the participating teams in a bowl game is closely correlated to its prestige.

By comparison, each of the former BCS bowls (including the national championship game) had a payout of $18 million.

Additionally, NCAA Division III is home to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl (1973–2019; was played in Salem, Virginia).

This situation led directly to the NCAA Division I Council imposing a three-year moratorium on new bowl games in April 2016.

[20][21] While Pizza Bowl organizers attempted to move the game to Comerica Park (a baseball stadium across the street from Ford Field), these plans never came to fruition.

[17] According to reports, the 2010 Christmas Bowl proposal would have involved a Mountain West team against an opponent from either the Pac-12 or The American.

It secured tie-ins with the MAC and Sun Belt, and an initial contract to run through the 2019 season.

[26] Another ownership group interested in starting a Montgomery-based bowl at New ASU Stadium reportedly switched focus to Charleston, South Carolina.

In the face of obstacles related to an NCAA ban on playing postseason games at predetermined locations in South Carolina due to the Confederate battle flag being flown at a civil war monument on the State House grounds, the ownership group instead chose to stage the Medal of Honor Bowl all-star game at Johnson Hagood Stadium beginning in 2014.

[27] However, with the Confederate flag's removal from the State House grounds on July 10, 2015, the NCAA lifted its ban that day.

* Bowl is a College Football Playoff semifinal, once every three seasons, in rotation under current CFP format All-star games predominantly featuring players from the FBS-level (or historical equivalents, such as Division I-A).