With the revealing of the College Football Playoff matchups on Sunday, the rest of the bowl schedule was set soon after. The bowl season will kick off on Saturday December 16 with the Myrtle Beach Bowl between Georgia Southern and Ohio being the first bowl game of the season. Five other bowl games will take place on that day, and by the time bowl season wraps up in early January, over 40 bowl games will have been played.
This year’s bowl season will be the last that will accompany the four-team College Football Playoff. It will be interesting to see how schools approach the 12-team playoff starting next year, especially after the changes we have seen after the introduction of the College Football Playoff at the end of the 2014 season.