2007–08 NCAA football bowl games
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Bowl sites by state
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| Season | 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Regular season | August 30–December 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of bowls | 32 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| All-star games | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowl games | December 20, 2007 – January 7, 2008 (not counting post-BCS all-star games) |
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| National Championship | 2008 BCS Championship Game | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location of Championship |
Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana |
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| Champions | LSU Tigers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowl Challenge Cup winner | Mountain West | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bowl Record by Conference | |||
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| Conference | Bowls | Record | Final AP Poll |
| SEC | 9 | 7–2 (0.778) | 5 |
| Big 12 | 8 | 5–3 (0.625) | 5 |
| Big Ten | 8 | 3–5 (0.375) | 5 |
| ACC | 8 | 2–6 (0.250) | 3 |
| Pac-10 | 6 | 4–2 (0.667) | 4 |
| Conference USA | 6 | 2–4 (0.333) | 0 |
| Mountain West | 5 | 4–1 (0.800) | 1 |
| Big East | 5 | 3–2 (0.600) | 2 |
| WAC | 4 | 1–3 (0.250) | 1 |
| MAC | 3 | 0–3 (0.000) | 0 |
| Sun Belt | 1 | 1–0 (1.000) | 0 |
| Independents | 1 | 0–1 (0.000) | 0 |
The 2007–08 NCAA football bowl games concluded the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS regular season in college football.
The NCAA divided Division I into two divisions for football in 1978. The top level, originally known as "Division I-A" and officially changed to the "Football Bowl Subdivision" in 2006, includes teams that play in bowl games. The second level, originally known as "Division I-AA" and renamed the "Football Championship Subdivision" in 2006, consists of smaller schools and conferences, most of which play in a playoff system (although a few conferences, such as the Ivy League, choose not to participate in the playoff). The larger schools, who do not have a playoff system, concludes with a series of bowl games that have developed as a reward for teams that do well in the regular season.
A total of 32 team-competitive plus four all-star postseason games were played. To fill the 64 available bowl slots from the 119 schools in the Bowl Subdivision, a total of seven teams with non-winning seasons participated in bowl games—all seven had a .500 (6-6) season.
For the 2007-08 season, NCAA bylaws stipulated that any team that finished with at least a 6-6 overall regular season record can only be selected to fill a conference tie-in bowl slot once all other available conference teams are chosen.
The Big Ten had ten teams who finished with a 6-6 or better regular season record, but only were allocated six slots not including BCS-qualifying Ohio State and Illinois. As a result, Northwestern and Iowa who finished with a 6-6 record did not qualify for a bowl game. Other teams that were left out of the bowl games were Louisville of the Big East; and the SEC's South Carolina, despite the fact that their conference had two BCS-qualifying teams (LSU and Georgia). The MAC's Ohio and Sun Belt members Troy and Louisiana-Monroe also failed to receive invitations. The Troy Trojans (at 8-4) were the most notable absentee from the bowl games, losing their season finale to Florida Atlantic on the last day of the season.
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