2013–14 NCAA football bowl games
| 2013–14 NCAA football bowl games | |||||||||
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| Season | 2013 | ||||||||
| Regular season | August 29, 2013 – December 14, 2013 | ||||||||
| Number of bowls | 35 | ||||||||
| All-star games | 2 | ||||||||
| Bowl games | December 21, 2013 – January 6, 2014 | ||||||||
| National Championship | 2014 BCS National Championship | ||||||||
| Location of Championship | Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA | ||||||||
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The 2013–14 NCAA football bowl games is a series of college football bowl games. They will conclude the 2013 NCAA Division I FBS football season, and include 35 team-competitive games and two all-star games. The games began on Saturday December 21, 2013 and, aside from the all-star games, will conclude with the 2014 BCS National Championship at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena that will be played on January 6, 2014.
Selection of the teams
As per the 2010, 2011, and 2012 seasons, initial bowl eligibility would go to teams with no lower than a non-losing record (6-6) for the season. On August 2, 2012, the NCAA Division I Board of Directors approved a significant change to the process to determine bowl eligible teams, going so far as to potentially allow 5-7 teams to go to a bowl, in case there were not enough regular bowl-eligible teams to fill every game.
If a bowl has one or more conferences/teams unable to meet their contractual commitments and there are no available bowl-eligible teams, the open spots can be filled – by the particular bowl's sponsoring agencies – as follows:[1]
- Teams finishing 6-6 with one win against a team from the lower Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), regardless of whether that FCS school meets NCAA scholarship requirements. Until now, an FCS win counted only if that opponent met the scholarship requirements—specifically, that school had to award at least 90% of the FCS maximum of 63 scholarship equivalents over a two-year period. In the 2013 season, programs in four FCS conferences cannot meet the 90% requirement (56.7 equivalents)—the Ivy League, which prohibits all athletic scholarships; the Patriot League and Pioneer Football League, which do not currently award football scholarships; and the Northeast Conference, which limits football scholarships to 40 equivalents.
- 6-6 teams with two wins over FCS schools.
- 6-7 teams that normally play a 13-team schedule, such as Hawaii's home opponents. Although Hawaii normally plays a 13-game schedule, it is only playing 12 games this season.
- FCS teams who are in the final year of the two-year FBS transition process, if they have at least a 6-6 record.
- Finally, 5-7 teams that have a top-5 Academic Progress Rate (APR) score. This was later adjusted to allow other 5-7 teams to be selected thereafter—in order of their APR.[2]
Under a rule change approved by the NCAA Legislative Council on May 3, 2013, teams that enter a conference championship game with a 6–6 record are bowl-eligible regardless of the result of the championship game, without the team having to seek an NCAA waiver.[3]
Bowl Championship Series
Ten teams were selected for the Bowl Championship Series:
Conference Champions
Schedule
The 2013-14 bowl season also will be the last for the current Bowl Championship Series format in one way or another. Starting in 2014-15, a new system, the College Football Playoff, will be used with two national semi-finals rotated among with Rose and Sugar, Orange and Fiesta, along with the Cotton and Peach Bowls and a championship game played at a neutral site two weeks later. The Rose and Sugar Bowls will be the two permanent games played on January 1, while the other four will play on December 31. In addition, the number of bowls will expand to 39 games that year with four new games - the Camellia Bowl, scheduled for Crampton Bowl in Montgomery, Alabama pitting the Sun Belt against the MAC; the Bahamas Bowl to be played in Nassau between the MAC and the American Athletic Conference; the Miami Beach Bowl to be played in Marlins Park with an American Athletic Conference team as host; and the Boca Raton Bowl, to be played at FAU Stadium, with a third MAC team taking on a team from Conference USA. This will increase the possibility that the bowls may run out of normally eligible teams, forcing some bowls to pick otherwise non-eligible teams as detailed above.
The 2013 – 2014 bowl game schedule was announced in May 2013,[4] and all bowl game participants will be selected by December 8th, 2013.
Note: All times are EST (UTC−5).
Non-BCS games
BCS Games
| Date | Game | Site | Television | Teams | Affiliations | Results |
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| Jan. 1 | Rose Bowl presented by Vizio | Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA 5:00 pm |
ESPN | Pac-12 Big Ten |
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| Tostitos Fiesta Bowl | University of Phoenix Stadium Glendale, AZ 8:30 pm |
ESPN | Big 12 at large |
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| Jan. 2 | Allstate Sugar Bowl | Mercedes-Benz Superdome New Orleans, LA 8:30 pm |
ESPN | SEC at large |
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| Jan. 3 | Discover Orange Bowl | Sun Life Stadium Miami Gardens, FL TBD |
ESPN | ACC at large |
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| Jan. 6 | Vizio BCS National Championship Game | Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA 8:30 pm |
ESPN | BCS #1 BCS #2 |
Post BCS all-star games
| Date | Game | Site | Television | Participants | Results |
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| Jan. 18 | East-West Shrine Game | Tropicana Field St. Petersburg, FL 4:00 pm |
NFL Network | East Team vs. West Team |
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| Jan. 25 | Senior Bowl | Ladd Peebles Stadium Mobile, AL 4:00pm |
North Team vs. South Team |
Bowl eligibility
To play in a bowl game, a college football team must qualify to do so according to the NCAA rules of bowl eligibility.
Eligible
- American (4) : Cincinnati, Houston, Louisville, UCF
- ACC (10) : Clemson, Duke, Florida State (ACC Atlantic Division Champions), Miami (FL), Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Boston College, Maryland, North Carolina, Pittsburgh
- Big Ten (7) : Michigan, Michigan State (Big Ten Legends Division Champions), Minnesota, Ohio State (Big Ten Leaders Division Champions), Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa
- Big 12 (6) : Baylor, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Texas, Kansas State
- Conference USA (6) : Rice, Tulane, North Texas, East Carolina, Marshall, Middle Tennessee,
- Independents (3) : BYU, Notre Dame, Navy
- MAC (6) : Ball State, Buffalo, Northern Illinois (MAC West Division Champions), Ohio, Toledo, Bowling Green
- Mountain West (5) : Fresno State, Boise State, Utah State, San Diego State, UNLV
- Pac-12 (9) : Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford (Pac-12 North Division Champions), Arizona State (Pac-12 South Division Champions), Arizona, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State
- SEC (10) : Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas A&M, Ole Miss, Georgia, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State
- Sun Belt (4) : Louisiana–Lafayette, Texas State, Western Kentucky, Arkansas State
Number of bowl berths available: 70
Number of teams assured of bowl eligibility: 70
Teams unable to become bowl-eligible
- American (4) : Connecticut, Temple, South Florida, Memphis
- ACC (3) : Virginia, NC State, Wake Forest
- Big Ten (5) : Penn State (via NCAA sanctions), Purdue, Illinois, Northwestern, Indiana
- Big 12 (4) : Iowa State, Kansas, West Virginia, TCU
- Conference USA (7) : Southern Miss, FIU, UTEP, UAB, Tulsa, Louisiana Tech, UTSA (Could only be eligible if there were 70 or less teams)
- Independents (3) : Idaho, New Mexico State, Army
- MAC (6) : Akron, Eastern Michigan, Kent State, Miami (OH), UMass, Western Michigan
- Mountain West (4) : Air Force, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico
- Pac-12 (3) : California, Colorado, Utah
- SEC (4) : Kentucky, Arkansas, Florida, Tennessee
- Sun Belt (1) : Georgia State
Number of teams assured of bowl ineligibility: 43
References
- ^ Johnson, Greg. "DI Board approves process to fill football bowls in case of shortfall". Retrieved August 2, 2012.
- ^ Palm, Jerry. "Possible fallout from Canes' self-imposed bowl ban".
- ^ "Midnight Madness to start earlier". ESPN.com. May 3, 2013. Retrieved May 4, 2013.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "2013–14 Bowl Schedule", ESPN, May 22, 2013. Retrieved October 20, 2013.
- ^ The Big 12 Conference was supposed to send its seventh selection to the Pinstripe Bowl. However since only 6 Big 12 teams will be eligible this year, they cannot send a team to the Pinstripe Bowl, and its place will be taken by an at-large team.