2023 Sun Bowl2022 Gator Bowl2022 Fiesta Bowl2021 Rose Bowl2019 Camping World Bowl2018 Cotton Bowl Classic2018 Citrus Bowl2016 Fiesta Bowl2014 Music City Bowl2013 Pinstripe Bowl2013 BCS National Championship Game2011 Champs Sports Bowl2010 Sun Bowl2008 Hawaii Bowl2007 Sugar Bowl2006 Fiesta Bowl2004 Insight Bowl2003 Gator Bowl2001 Fiesta Bowl1999 Gator Bowl1997 Independence Bowl1996 Orange...
2024 Michigan 27, Alabama 20, ot2023 Penn State 35, Utah 212022 Ohio State 48, Utah 452021 Alabama 31, Notre Dame 142020 Oregon 28, Wisconsin 272019 Ohio State 28, Washington 232018 Georgia 54, Oklahoma 48, 2 ot2017 USC 52, Penn State 492016 Stanford 45, Iowa 162015 Oregon 59, Florida State 202014...
1949 Rose Bowl, vs. Pacific Coast,W 20-141996 Rose Bowl, USC,L 41-321997 Florida Citrus Bowl, vs. Tennessee,L 48-282000 Alamo Bowl, vs. Nebraska,L 66-172003 Motor City Bowl, vs. Bowling GreenL 28-242005 Sun Bowl, vs. UCLA,L 50-382008 Alamo Bowl, vs. Missouri,L 30-232010 Outback Bowl, vs. AubrunL 38-352011 Meineke Bowl, vs. Texas A&ML 33-222011...
1983 California Bowl, vs. Cal State FullertonW 20-132004 Silicon Valley, vs. TroyW 34-212006 Poinsettia Bowl, vs. TCUL 37-72008 Independence Bowl, vs. LouisianaL 17-102010 Humanitarian Bowl, vs. FresnoW 40-172010 International Bowl, vs. South FloridaW 27-32012 GoDaddy.com Bowl, Arkansas St.W 38-202013 Poinsettia Bowl, vs. Utah StateL 21-142013 Orange Bowl, vs. Florida StateL...
Saturday, Dec. 9Division III SemifinalsCortland vs. Randolph-Macon, 11 a.m., ESPN+North Central at Wartburg, 2:30 p.m., ESPN+ Friday, Dec. 15Division III Championship, Salem Va.TBD vs. TBD, TBD Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) select bowl games Saturday, Dec. 16Myrtle Beach Bowl, Conway, S.C.Georgia Southern vs. Ohio 10 a.m., ESPNCelebration Bowl, Atlanta, Ga.Florida A&M...
Saturday, Dec. 3 – Division III QuarterfinalsMount Union 22, Delaware Valley 6Mary Hardin-Baylor 41, Bethel (Minn.) 28North Central College 48, Ithaca 7Wartburg 45, Aurora University 17 Saturday, Dec. 10 – Division III SemifinalsMount Union 34, Wartburg 31North Central College 49, Mary Hardin-Baylor 14 Friday, Dec. 16 – Division III National...
Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) select bowl gamesTuesday, Jan. 4Texas Bowl, NRG Stadium in Houston, TexasKansas State vs. LSU, 8 p.m., ESPNMonday, Jan. 10College Football Playoff National Championship, Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Ind., Alabama vs. Georgia, 7 p.m., ESPN Results Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) select bowl gamesSaturday, Jan. 1Outback Bowl,...
The longest winning streak in college football changed hands Friday, Dec. 17 when the reigning National champion, North Central College football team fell to Mary Hardin-Baylor, 57-24, in the Divisioin III Stagg Bowl championship game. North Central , 13-1, ended its run of 24 consecutive victories and Mary Hardin-Baylor, 15-0,...
By Woodrow Carroll For the third time this season the Northern Illinois Huskies surpassed 40 points only to lose the game. With a 47-41 defeat at the hands of Coastal Carolina in the Cure Bowl in Orlando, Fla. Friday, Dec. 17, Northern Illinois wrote finish to this season with a...
We must enjoy championship form when we see it because it is the exception. It is rare. It does happen and North Central College in the evening Friday, Dec. 17 will seek its second consecutive Division III college football national championship. The Cardinals of North Central won the national championship...
By Woodrow Carroll Northern Illinois University’s 41-23 victory against Kent State in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) championship game Saturday, Dec. 4 may have been bit of a surprise to some observers. Host Kent State beat Northern Illinois, 52-47, when the two teams played in the regular season. In the MAC...
By Woodrow Carroll With the most uneven college football season in history coming to an end at 7 p.m. Monday, when Alabama will square off against Ohio State in the college football playoff championship game, we might offer thanks to Georgia and Ball State. Only Alabama, 12-0, and Ohio State,...
By Woodrow Carroll Because of COVID-19 pandemic, at least 19 college football bowl games have been canceled, moved, or reworked. In the case of the Rose Bowl, the operative word is moved. The ugly virus has forced the Rose Bowl to move from Pasadena, Calif. to Arlington, Texas. Opponents Alabama...
By Woodrow Carroll The college football season came to an end with the National championship game. LSU defeated Clemson, 42-25. With 40 bowl games in all, some are bound to be good, bad, ugly, and exotic. Perhaps a bit overlooked at times is the sponsorship of the bowl games. The...
By Woodrow CarrollTucson, Ariz. The 2019 University of Illinois football season was difficult to understand. On the upside, among the 14 teams in the Big Ten Conference, Illinois and Rutgers each was predicted as the least likely to make it to a bowl game in media preseason forecasts. In a...
By Woodrow Carroll At the start of the football season, there was a general consensus that the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL) would be in the playoffs. It was apparent sound thinking, given that the Bears had made the playoffs in 2018 and were viewed on the...
North Central College in Naperville celebrates Saturday at the school the national D-III playoff championship won Friday evening.
By Woodrow CarrollTucson, Ariz. Maybe it’s Tucson, Ariz. premature to give the Mid-American Conference (MAC) a pat on the back for the way the Conference started this season’s bowl games. Still, it was a nice surprise. Two bowl games Friday kicked off the 2019-2020 run of 40 games for the...
Scoring early and often against the last remaining undefeated Division III team, the North Central College football won an historic 45-14 victory over the Muhlenberg College Mules Saturday to clinch North Central’s first trip to the Stagg Bowl. The Mules boasted the Nation’s third-ranked scoring defense entering Saturday’s game at...
By Woodrow Carroll My having had the good fortune and good health to cover 41 college football bowl games through last season, it is enjoyable to look back on how it all started for me. It was the 1991 Copper Bowl in Tucson, Ariz. that this writer covered his first...
