The weirdest bowl season in modern college football history is in the rearview.
The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted the 2020 college football regular season and those impacts were also felt during the postseason. So many teams decided they had enough football during a pandemic and decided against playing a bowl game that bowl games had to be canceled. Other games were canceled before the season ended. And some were canceled just days before they were scheduled to be played because their participants had COVID-19 cases.
Forty-three bowl games were originally scheduled for this postseason. Monday’s national title game between Alabama and Ohio State will be the 26th and final game of the postseason.