2005–06 NCAA football bowl games
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Bowl sites by state
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| Season | 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Regular season | September 1–December 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of bowls | 28 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| All-star games | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowl games | December 20, 2005 – January 4, 2006 |
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| National Championship | 2006 Rose Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rose Bowl Stadium, Pasadena, California |
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| Champions | Texas Longhorns | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowl Challenge Cup winner | (tie) Big 12 and ACC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bowl Record by Conference | |||
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| Conference | Bowls | Record | Final AP Poll |
| ACC | 8 | 5–3 (0.625) | 5 |
| Big 12 | 8 | 5–3 (0.625) | 4 |
| Big Ten | 7 | 3–4 (0.429) | 3 |
| SEC | 6 | 3–3 (0.500) | 5 |
| Conference USA | 6 | 3–3 (0.500) | 0 |
| Pac-10 | 5 | 3–2 (0.600) | 4 |
| Mountain West | 4 | 2–2 (0.500) | 1 |
| Big East | 4 | 1–3 (0.250) | 2 |
| WAC | 3 | 1–2 (0.333) | 0 |
| Independents | 2 | 1–1 (0.500) | 1 |
| MAC | 2 | 1–1 (0.500) | 1 |
| Sun Belt | 1 | 0–1 (0.000) | 0 |
The 2005-06 NCAA college football bowl season was a series of 28 post-season games (including the Bowl Championship Series) that was played in December 2005 and January 2006 for Division I-A football teams and all-stars from Divisions I-AA, II, and III, as well as from the NAIA. The post-season began with the New Orleans Bowl on December 20, 2005, and concluded with the Senior Bowl, played on January 28, 2006.
With 64 teams having winning records, and 56 slots in bowl games, there were more teams than slots available for teams to get a bowl bid. Again, as in 2004, two conferences — the Pac 10 and the SEC — did not have enough teams to fill the required number of slots for their non-BCS bowls. A third conference — the Big Ten — had two teams in the BCS (Penn State as the conference champion, and Ohio State meeting Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl January 2). The biggest beneficiary this year was the ACC, which replaced the SEC at the Music City Bowl (Virginia) and the Pac-10 (Georgia Tech) at the Emerald Bowl; Conference USA also gained a slot, sending Memphis to the Motor City Bowl. Unlike last year, where a fighting incident during the game between Clemson and South Carolina led each team to impose a post-season ban, no school forfeited post-season play this year.
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