Ranking every college football bowl game from worst to best

Welcome to bowl season!

It’s the most glorious time of the year. And from the Myrtle Beach Bowl on Dec. 16 to the College Football Playoff national championship on Jan. 8, there will be 42 FBS postseason games played.

Not including the national title game, we have ranked all 41 bowl games from worst to best. Beyond the CFP bowls, there are many intriguing matchups to look forward to in the coming weeks.

(Full 2023 bowl game schedule with dates, times and TV channels)

41. Quick Lane Bowl (Dec. 26, 2 p.m., ESPN)

Minnesota is the only sub-.500 team in a bowl game thanks to its Academic Progress Rate. The Gophers will play without QB Athan Kaliakmanis after he entered the transfer portal and defensive coordinator Joe Rossi is off to Michigan State. Minnesota averages just 303 yards a game and gives up six yards a play. Bowling Green won five of its last six to get bowl eligible and its only loss in that span came to Toledo as the Rockets got a 59-yard TD to go ahead with 1:45 to go.

40. Boca Raton Bowl (Dec. 21, 8 p.m., ESPN)

The Bulls are bowling for the first time since 2018 under first-year coach Alex Golesh after winning just eight games over the last four seasons. One of USF’s six losses this season came by a score of 17-3 to Alabama in a game that was the catalyst for QB Jalen Milroe’s emergence after he didn’t play at all against the Bulls. Syracuse fired coach Dino Babers before the final week of the season and interim coach Nunzio Campanile got a 35-31 win over Wake Forest to get the Orange into a bowl game.

39. 68 Ventures Bowl (Dec. 23, 7 p.m., ESPN)

South Alabama also gets to host a bowl game this season. The Jaguars had a 26-point win at Oklahoma State in Week 3 before losing to Central Michigan the following week. South Alabama has outscored its opponents by a combined 108 points thanks to midseason blowout…


Source link : https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/college-bowl-rankings-best-games-023719169.html

Author : Yahoo Sports

Publish date : 2023-12-15 19:26:18

Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.