The Appalachian State Mountaineers and the Georgia Southern Eagles are set to square off in a Sun Belt matchup at 2:30 p.m. The Gator Bowl name was reinstated for the first time since the 2013 season, as it had been known as the TaxSlayer Bowl for the four prior editions.Current Records: Georgia Southern 3-8 Appalachian State 9-2 What to Know Under new sponsorship deals in comparison to the prior season's bowl games, the Cactus Bowl was renamed the Cheez-It Bowl, the Heart of Dallas Bowl was renamed the First Responder Bowl, and the Foster Farms Bowl was renamed the Redbox Bowl. Orange Bowl Winner)įor the 2018–19 bowl season, the Gasparilla Bowl was re-located from Tropicana Field to Raymond James Stadium (which already hosts the Outback Bowl).
The winners advanced to the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, on January 7.Īll games in this table were televised on ESPN.Ĭollege Football Playoff National Championship Both were played on December 29 as part of a yearly rotation of three pairs of six bowls, commonly referred to as the New Year's Six bowl games. The semifinal games for the 2018–19 season were the Cotton Bowl and the Orange Bowl. The top four teams in the final ranking play in a single-elimination semifinal round, with the winners advancing to the National Championship game. A 13-member committee of experts ranked the top 25 teams in the nation after each of the last seven weeks. The College Football Playoff system is used to determine a national championship of Division I FBS college football. All times are EST ( UTC−5).Ĭollege Football Playoff and Championship Game The schedule for the 2018–19 bowl games is below. 2.4 Bowl-eligible teams that did not receive a berth.2.1 CFP top 25 standings and bowl games.1.1 College Football Playoff and Championship Game.The three all-star games were the East–West Shrine Game and NFLPA Collegiate Bowl, played on January 19, and the Senior Bowl, played on January 26. The game was scored as a no-contest for the teams involved. Only 39 of the 40 bowls were played, with the First Responder Bowl becoming the first ever postseason game at the FBS-level (or its predecessors) to be cancelled, as a severe lightning storm lingered for over two hours near the Cotton Bowl Stadium. This was the second consecutive year, and only the third time in eight years, that no teams with losing seasons (6–7 or 5–7) were invited to fill available bowl berths.
To fill the 78 available bowl slots, a total of 10 teams (13% of all participants) with non-winning records (6–6) were invited to bowl games. The total of 40 team-competitive bowls in FBS, including the national championship game, was unchanged from the previous year. The games began on December 15, 2018, and, aside from the all-star games that follow, ended with the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship, which was played on January 7, 2019.
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The 2018–19 NCAA football bowl games were a series of college football bowl games completing the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The ACC versus Mountain West First Responder Bowl was a no-contest due to lightning.