The 2023 season features the 10th and final time of the current 4-team College Football Playoff and the New Year’s Six as we know it. Every year, one spot in the NY6 is reserved for the highest-ranked conference champion of the AAC, CUSA, MAC, Mountain West, and Sun Belt.
This bid has been heavily dominated by the AAC, which rides a 6-year streak of appearing in a New Year’s Six bowl. The only non-AAC teams in the nine years of the College Football Playoff era to earn a bid to these prestigious bowls were 2014 Boise State of the Mountain West and 2016 Western Michigan of the MAC.