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| Season | 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Regular season | September 3, 2015 – December 12, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of bowls | 41 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| All-star games | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowl games | December 19, 2015 – January 11, 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National Championship | 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location of Championship | University of Phoenix Stadium Glendale, AZ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2015–16 NCAA football bowl games are a series of college football bowl games. They will complete the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The games will begin on December 19, 2015 and, aside from the all-star games, will end with the 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship which will be played on January 11, 2016.
Schedule
The schedule for the 2015–16 bowl games is below. All times are EST (UTC−5). The rankings used are the CFP rankings.[1]
College Football Playoff and Championship Game
The 2015–16 postseason will be the second that features a College Football Playoff (CFP) to determine a national champion of Division I FBS college football. Four teams were selected by a 13-member committee to participate in a single-elimination tournament, whose semi-finals will be held at the Cotton Bowl and the Orange Bowl as part of a yearly rotation of six bowls. Their winners will advance to the 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona on January 11, 2016.[2][3]
Both semi-final bowls will be played on December 31, 2015, with exact scheduling to be determined when teams are selected.[2] Analysts expressed concerns that the games could face reduced television viewership due to their New Year's Eve scheduling, believing that fans would not be accustomed to the scheduling, and that they would face competition from New Year's Eve events (including public and private events, as well as television specials like New Year's Rockin' Eve, which is aired by ABC—sister network of CFP broadcaster ESPN).[2] ESPN proposed moving the semi-final games to January 2, 2016, a Saturday, arguing that the games would enjoy a higher level of prominence if held on a day of the week that is traditionally associated with college football. However, its proposal was rejected.[2]
| Semifinals | Championship | |||||||
| December 31 – Orange Bowl Sun Life Stadium, Miami Gardens |
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| 1 | Clemson | 37 | ||||||
| 4 | Oklahoma | 17 | January 11 – National Championship University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale | |||||
| 1 | Clemson | 40 | ||||||
| December 31 – Cotton Bowl AT&T Stadium, Arlington |
2 | Alabama | 45 | |||||
| 2 | Alabama | 38 | ||||||
| 3 | Michigan State | 0 | ||||||
Non-CFP bowl games
For the 2015–16 season, two new bowl games were added, the Cure Bowl and the Arizona Bowl, bringing the total number of bowl games to 41.[5][1][6][7]
+ Notre Dame is eligible for any one of the bowl bids reserved for ACC teams, if Notre Dame: (a) is bowl-eligible; and (b) is not selected for one of the CFP Bowls. Notre Dame may not be selected for one of the bowl games having ACC tie-ins unless Notre Dame has no less than one less overall loss than the winningest-remaining ACC team which has not yet been selected for a bowl game.
BYU has an agreement with the Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl and the Hawaiʻi Bowl for the 2015 and 2016 seasons. The Cougars will appear, in place of a Mountain West team, in the Las Vegas Bowl this season.
All-star games
| Date | Game | Site | Television | Participants | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 23 | East–West Shrine Game | Tropicana Field St. Petersburg, FL 4:00 pm |
NFL Network | East Team vs. West Team |
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| NFLPA Collegiate Bowl | StubHub Center Carson, CA 6:00 pm |
ESPN2 | National Team vs. American Team |
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| Jan. 30 | Senior Bowl | Ladd Peebles Stadium Mobile, AL 4:00 pm |
NFL Network | North Team vs. South Team |
Selection of the teams
CFP top 25 teams
On December 6, 2015, the College Football Playoff selection committee announced their final team rankings for the year:[8]
| Rank | Team | W–L | Conference and standing | Bowl game |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clemson Tigers | ACC champions | Orange Bowl | ||
| Alabama Crimson Tide | SEC champions | Cotton Bowl | ||
| Michigan State Spartans | Big Ten champions | Cotton Bowl | ||
| Oklahoma Sooners | Big 12 champions | Orange Bowl | ||
| Iowa Hawkeyes | Big Ten West Division champions | Rose Bowl | ||
| Stanford Cardinal | Pacific-12 champions | Rose Bowl | ||
| Ohio State Buckeyes | Big Ten East Division co-champions | Fiesta Bowl | ||
| Notre Dame Fighting Irish | Independent | Fiesta Bowl | ||
| Florida State Seminoles | ACC Atlantic Division second place | Peach Bowl | ||
| North Carolina Tar Heels | ACC Coastal Division champions | Russell Athletic Bowl | ||
| TCU Horned Frogs | Big 12 second place (tie) | Alamo Bowl | ||
| Ole Miss Rebels | SEC West Division second place | Sugar Bowl | ||
| Northwestern Wildcats | Big Ten West Division second place (tie) | Outback Bowl | ||
| Michigan Wolverines | Big Ten East Division third place | Citrus Bowl | ||
| Oregon Ducks | Pacific-12 North Division second place | Alamo Bowl | ||
| Oklahoma State Cowboys | Big 12 second place (tie) | Sugar Bowl | ||
| Baylor Bears | Big Twelve fourth place | Russell Athletic Bowl | ||
| Houston Cougars | American champions | Peach Bowl | ||
| Florida Gators | SEC East Division champions | Citrus Bowl | ||
| LSU Tigers | SEC West Division third place (tie) | Texas Bowl | ||
| Navy Midshipmen | American West Division co-champions | Military Bowl | ||
| Utah Utes | Pacific-12 South Division co-champions | Las Vegas Bowl | ||
| Tennessee Volunteers | SEC East Division second place (tie) | Outback Bowl | ||
| Temple Owls | American East Division champions | Boca Raton Bowl | ||
| USC Trojans | Pacific-12 South Division co-champions | Holiday Bowl |
Bowl-eligible teams
- ACC (9): Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Louisville, Miami, North Carolina, NC State, Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech
- The American (8): Cincinnati, Connecticut, Houston, Memphis, Navy, South Florida, Temple, Tulsa
- Big Ten (8): Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin
- Big 12 (7): Baylor, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas Tech, West Virginia
- Conference USA (5): Louisiana Tech, Marshall, Middle Tennessee, Southern Miss, Western Kentucky
- Independents (2): BYU, Notre Dame
- MAC (7): Akron, Bowling Green, Central Michigan, Northern Illinois, Ohio, Toledo, Western Michigan
- Mountain West (7): Air Force, Boise State, Colorado State, Nevada, New Mexico, San Diego State, Utah State
- Pacific-12 (10): Arizona, Arizona State, California, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington, Washington State
- SEC (10): Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Texas A&M
- Sun Belt (4): Appalachian State, Arkansas State, Georgia Southern, Georgia State
Number of bowl berths available: 80
Number of bowl-eligible teams: 77
Conditionally bowl-ineligible teams
- The American (4): East Carolina*, SMU, Tulane, UCF
- ACC (5): Boston College, Georgia Tech, Syracuse, Virginia, Wake Forest
- Big Ten (6): Illinois*, Maryland, Minnesota*, Nebraska*, Purdue, Rutgers
- Big 12 (3): Iowa State, Kansas, Texas*
- Conference USA (8): Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, FIU*, North Texas, Old Dominion*, Rice*, UTSA, UTEP*
- Independent (1): Army
- MAC (6): Ball State, Buffalo*, Eastern Michigan, Kent State, Miami (OH), UMass
- Mountain West (5): Fresno State, Hawaii, San Jose State*, UNLV, Wyoming
- Pacific-12 (2): Colorado, Oregon State
- SEC (4): Kentucky*, Missouri*, South Carolina, Vanderbilt
- Sun Belt (7): Idaho, Louisiana–Lafayette, Louisiana-Monroe, New Mexico State, South Alabama*, Texas State, Troy
Number of bowl-ineligible teams: 51
Note: Being bowl-ineligible does not, in itself, exclude a team from the chance to play in a bowl game. Tiebreaker procedures based on a school's Academic Progress Rate (APR) allowed for the possibility of 5–7 teams to play in bowl games since not enough teams qualified to fill all 80 spots with at least a 6–6 record.
Note: Teams with Asterisk (*) have a 5–7 record (14 total). Since a maximum of 77 bowl slots were filled, 3 of these teams qualified for a bowl game. These teams were Nebraska, Minnesota, and San Jose State.[9] Missouri would have qualified over Minnesota or San Jose State, but announced they would decline a bowl bid.[10]
Note: There are 128 teams in FBS.
References
- ^ a b "2015–16 College Football Bowl Schedule – 2016 Playoff", FBSchedules.com. Retrieved May 6, 2015.
- ^ a b c d "A daunting task: Can the CFP, ESPN change old New Year's Eve habits?". Sports Illustrated. Time Inc. July 2, 2015. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
- ^ "College Football Playoff 101", ESPN, May 19, 2014. Retrieved May 6, 2015.
- ^ "BattleFrog Announced as Title Sponsor of 45th Annual Fiesta Bowl" (Press release). Fiesta Bowl. December 4, 2015. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
- ^ Kelley, Kevin (May 6, 2015). "Three New Bowls Approved, Pushes Total to 42 in 2015", FBSchedules.com. Retrieved May 9, 2015.
- ^ Swiatecki, Chad (May 26, 2015). "Austin's Bowl Game Hopes Delayed to 2016". Austin Business Journal. Retrieved May 27, 2015.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Lisaius, Som (October 1, 2015). "Organizers, Officials Celebrate Nova Home Loans Arizona Bowl", Tucson News Now. Retrieved October 2, 2015.
- ^ "2015 College Football Rankings – Week 15 – College Football Playoff Rankings", ESPN, December 6, 2015. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
- ^ Johnson, Greg. "NCAA Football: Council approves process to allow 5–7 teams into bowl games". ncaa.com. NCAA. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- ^ Paul, Richard. "Missouri not interested in bowl after 5–7 season". The Oceanside Post. Retrieved 6 December 2015.