Bowl Record by Conference
Conference	Bowls	Record	Final AP Poll
Big 12	9	4–5 (0.444)	3
SEC	9	6–3 (0.667)	7
Pac-12	8	4–4 (0.500)	3
Big Ten	7	2–5 (0.286)	4
MAC	7	2–5 (0.286)	2
ACC	6	4–2 (0.667)	2
Big East	5	3–2 (0.600)	1
Conference USA	5	4–1 (0.800)	0
Mountain West	5	1–4 (0.200)	0
Sun Belt	4	2–2 (0.500)	0
Independents	3	1–2 (0.333)	1
WAC	2	2–0 (1.000)	2

Bowl Record by Conference
Conference	Bowls	Record	Final AP Poll
Big 12	9	4–5 (0.444)	3
SEC	9	6–3 (0.667)	7
Pac-12	8	4–4 (0.500)	3
Big Ten	7	2–5 (0.286)	4
MAC	7	2–5 (0.286)	2
ACC	6	4–2 (0.667)	2
Big East	5	3–2 (0.600)	1
Conference USA	5	4–1 (0.800)	0
Mountain West	5	1–4 (0.200)	0
Sun Belt	4	2–2 (0.500)	0
Independents	3	1–2 (0.333)	1
WAC	2	2–0 (1.000)	2

The 2012–13 NCAA football bowl games was a series of college football bowl games. They concluded the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season, and included 35 team-competitive games and four all-star games. The games began on Saturday December 15, 2012 and, aside from the all-star games, concluded with the 2013 BCS National Championship Game in Miami Gardens, Florida that was played on January 7, 2013.

A total of 35 postseason games were played. To fill the 70 available bowl slots, a total of 13 teams with non-winning seasons participated in bowl games—12 had a .500 (6-6) season, and one had a sub-.500 (6-7) season.

As per 2010 and 2011, initial bowl eligibility would go to teams with no lower than a non-losing record (6-6) for the season. On August 2, 2012, the NCAA Division I Board of Directors approved a significant change to the process to determine bowl eligible teams, going so far as to potentially allow 5-7 teams to go to a bowl, in case there were not enough regular bowl-eligible teams to fill every game. If a bowl has one or more conferences/teams unable to meet their contractual commitments and there are no available bowl-eligible teams, the open spots can be filled – by the particular bowl's sponsoring agencies – as follows:

This process was created as a number of schools were banned, self-banned or potentially banned from the 2012 bowls, risking unfilled bowl games under the previous process: Ohio State, Penn State, North Carolina and UCF received bowl bans for this season (UCF's appeal hearing has been delayed until 2013, keeping them eligible this season), while there were unresolved NCAA cases examining Oregon and Miami (Miami has self-imposed a bowl ban for both 2011 and 2012).

Note: Georgia Tech lost in the ACC Championship Game to go 6-7 on the season. Georgia Tech applied for a waiver, distinct from the bowl-eligibility contingency plan, stating that they were forced to play the ACC Championship Game because higher finishing Miami self-imposed a postseason ban in a bid to lessen possible NCAA sanctions resulting from their school's 2011 athletics scandal. (North Carolina, which also finished ahead of Georgia Tech, was ineligible to participate due to NCAA sanctions.) The NCAA granted Georgia Tech the waiver and direct, non-contingent, eligibility for bowl play.

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