It’s almost time to go bowling!
Officials at ESPN have announced the schedule for this year’s slate of college football bowl games. According to information released by ESPN, this year’s 35-game schedule is set to launch Dec. 19 and to run through Jan. 11. The games will air on each of the ESPN networks.
Opening this year’s schedule is the Topical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl on Dec. 19 in Frisco, TX. The game is scheduled to take place at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN. Next up is the Myrtle Beach Bowl in Conway, SC at 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 21 on ESPN.
Dec. 22 will feature a double header schedule starting at 3:30 p.m. on ESPN with the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl on ESPN. The Boca Raton Bowl follows at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN. It will take place at FAU Stadium in Boca Raton, FL.
Another double header is scheduled to take place Dec. 23, starting with the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl at 3:30 p.m. ET on ESPN. The game will take place at the Mercedez-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, LA.
The second game on the day is the Montgomery Bowl at 7 p.m. ET. Officials are determining whether it will broadcast on ESPN or ESPN2. The game is set to take place at the Cramton Bowl in Montgomery, AL.
One game is scheduled for Dec. 24 and 25 respectively. The Christmas Eve game is the New Mexico Bowl, set to air at 3:30 p.m. ET on ESPN. The Camellia Bowl is scheduled to take place at 2:30 p.m. ET on Christmas Day from the Cramton Bowl in Montgomery, AL on ESPN.
Dec. 26 will see the busiest schedule of the bowl season, with six bowl games set. Coverage starts at noon ET on ABC with the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl. The day winds down with the Guaranteed Rate Bowl, set to air at 10:15 p.m. ET on ESPN.
Other bowl games set for Dec. 26 are: Cure Bowl, SERVPRO First Responder Bowl, Lending Tree Bowl, and Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl.
The action continues Dec. 28 after a day off, with the Military Bowl presented by Perspecta. Coverage of the game, which is scheduled to start at 2:30 p.m. ET on ESPN, will come from the Navy-Marin Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, MD.
From there, the season’s bowl game schedule continues with three to four games daily right to January 1 and the College Football Championship. College football’s title game is scheduled to take place at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, FL, with coverage scheduled to start at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN.
The ESPN networks’ full 2020-2021 Bowl Game Schedule is noted below.
ESPN’s 2020-21 Bowl Season Schedule
| Date | Time (ET) | Bowl Game | Network |
| Sat, Dec 19 | 7 p.m. | Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl ** Toyota Stadium, Frisco, Texas | ESPN |
| Mon, Dec 21 | 2:30 p.m. | Myrtle Beach Bowl ** Brooks Stadium, Conway, S.C. | ESPN |
| Tue, Dec 22 | 3:30 p.m. | Famous Idaho Potato Bowl ** Albertsons Stadium, Boise, Idaho | ESPN |
| 7 p.m. | Boca Raton Bowl ** FAU Stadium, Boca Raton, Fla. | ESPN | |
| Wed, Dec 23 | 3:30 p.m. | R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans | ESPN |
| 7 p.m. | Montgomery Bowl ** Cramton Bowl, Montgomery, Ala. | ESPN or ESPN2 | |
| Thu, Dec 24 | 3:30 p.m. | New Mexico Bowl ** TBD, Albuquerque, N.M. | ESPN |
| Fri, Dec 25 | 2:30 p.m. | Camellia Bowl ** Cramton Bowl, Montgomery, Ala. | ESPN |
| Sat, Dec 26 | Noon | Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl ** Raymond James Stadium, Tampa | ABC |
| Cure Bowl ** Camping World Stadium, Orlando, Fla. | ESPN | ||
| 3:30 p.m. | SERVPRO First Responder Bowl ** Gerald J. Ford Stadium, Dallas | ABC | |
| 3:30 p.m. | LendingTree Bowl Ladd-Peebles Stadium, Mobile, Ala. | ESPN | |
| 7 p.m. | Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl Independence Stadium, Shreveport, La. | ESPN | |
| 10:15 p.m. | Guaranteed Rate Bowl Chase Field, Phoenix | ESPN | |
| Mon, Dec 28 | 2:30 p.m. | Military Bowl Presented by Perspecta Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, Annapolis, Md. | ESPN |
| Tue, Dec 29 | 2 p.m. | New Era Pinstripe Bowl Yankee Stadium, New York | ESPN |
| 5:30 p.m. | Cheez-It Bowl Camping World Stadium, Orlando | ESPN | |
| 9 p.m. | Valero Alamo Bowl Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas | ESPN | |
| Wed, Dec 30 | Noon | Duke’s Mayo Bowl Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte | ESPN |
| 3:30 p.m. | TransPerfect Music City Bowl Nissan Stadium, Nashville, Tenn. | ESPN | |
| 7:15 p.m. | Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas | ESPN | |
| 10:45 p.m. | LA Bowl SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, Calif. | ESPN | |
| Thu, Dec 31 | Noon | Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl ** Amon G. Carter Stadium, Fort Worth, Texas | ESPN |
| 4 p.m. | AutoZone Liberty Bowl Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, Memphis | ESPN | |
| 8 p.m. | Texas Bowl ** NRG Stadium, Houston | ESPN | |
| Fri, Jan 1 | Noon | TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl ** Legion Field, Birmingham, Ala. | ESPN2 |
| 12:30 p.m. | Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta | ESPN | |
| 1 p.m. | Vrbo Citrus Bowl Camping World Stadium, Orlando | ABC | |
| 5 p.m. | College Football Playoff Semifinal at The Rose Bowl Game Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif. | ESPN | |
| 8:45 p.m. | College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Allstate Sugar Bowl Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans | ESPN | |
| Sat, Jan 2 | Noon | TaxSlayer Gator Bowl TIAA Bank Field, Jacksonville | ESPN |
| 12:30 p.m. | Outback Bowl Raymond James Stadium, Tampa | ABC | |
| 4 p.m. | PlayStation Fiesta Bowl State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Ariz. | ESPN | |
| 8 p.m. | Capital One Orange Bowl Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, Fla. | ESPN | |
| Mon, Jan 11 | 8 p.m. | College Football Playoff National Championship Presented by AT&T Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, Fla. | ESPN |
All times Eastern. Subject to change.
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