The fact that the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl is one of the College Football Playoff’s “New Year’s Six” games is not all that surprising when you look at its history. Even when the game was played in Atlanta’s Fulton County Stadium, it was able to put together interesting and well-attended matchups. In the 1990s, the game moved into the Georgia Dome, signed agreements with the SEC and ACC and received sponsorship from Chick-fil-A. From there, it became the most successful non-BCS bowl of the BCS era.
There have been many outstanding games played since the first Peach Bowl in 1968 (Note: More than 25 Peach Bowls have been decided by seven or fewer points so picking the five best is about like picking your five favorite members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, i.