2013–14 NCAA football bowl games
| 2013–14 NCAA football bowl games | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Season | 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Regular season | August 29, 2013 – December 14, 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of bowls | 35 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| All-star games | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowl games | December 21, 2013 – January 25, 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National Championship | 2014 BCS National Championship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location of Championship |
Rose Bowl Pasadena, California |
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| Champions | Florida State | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowl Challenge Cup winner | SEC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bowl Record by Conference | |||
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| Conference | Bowls | Record | Final AP Poll |
| ACC | 11 | 5–6 (0.455) | 4 |
| SEC | 10 | 7–3 (0.700) | 7 |
| Pac-12 | 9 | 6–3 (0.667) | 6 |
| Big Ten | 7 | 2–5 (0.286) | 3 |
| Big 12 | 6 | 3–3 (0.500) | 3 |
| Conference USA | 6 | 3–3 (0.500) | 0 |
| Mountain West | 6 | 3–3 (0.500) | 0 |
| American | 5 | 2–3 (0.400) | 1 |
| MAC | 5 | 0–5 (0.000) | 0 |
| Independents | 3 | 2–1 (0.667) | 1 |
| Sun Belt | 2 | 2–0 (1.000) | 0 |
The 2013–14 NCAA football bowl games were a series of college football bowl games. They concluded the 2013 NCAA Division I FBS football season, and included 35 team-competitive games and three all-star games (down from four as the Texas vs the Nation game was cancelled for this season). The games began on Saturday December 21, 2013 and, aside from the all-star games, ended with the 2014 BCS National Championship at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena that was played on January 6, 2014.
A total of 35 postseason games were played. To fill the 70 available bowl slots, a total of eight teams with non-winning seasons participated in bowl games—all eight had a .500 (6-6) season, and no sub-.500 teams were invited for only the second time in eight years.
The 2013–14 bowl season served as the last for the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) format. Starting in 2014–15 a new system, the College Football Playoff, will be used.
The 2013–2014 bowl game schedule, with 70 teams to compete in 35 bowls, was announced in May 2013. All bowl game participants were selected by December 8, 2013.
Note: All times are EST (UTC−5). Rankings from final BCS poll.
To play in a bowl game, a college football team must qualify to do so according to the NCAA rules of bowl eligibility.
As in the 2010, 2011, and 2012 seasons, 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.
The easing of the bowl eligibility rules resulted in a record number of teams, 79 versus the 71 or 72 of the past few seasons, being deemed eligible for selection to a 2013–14 bowl game. The easing of rules to include teams with losing records and teams from the lower Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), will carry extra importance starting in the 2014–15 bowl season, when the number of bowl games will increase to 39—requiring 78 eligible teams.
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