2014–15 NCAA football bowl games
| 2014–15 NCAA football bowl games | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Season | 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Regular season | August 30, 2014 – December 13, 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of bowls | 39 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| All-star games | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowl games | December 20, 2014 – January 12, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National Championship | 2015 College Football Playoffs National Championship |
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| Location of Championship |
AT&T Stadium Arlington, Texas |
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| Champions | Ohio State Buckeyes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowl Challenge Cup winner | Conference USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bowl Record by Conference | |||
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| Conference | Bowls | Record | Final AP Poll |
| SEC | 12 | 7–5 (0.583) | 6 |
| Big Ten | 11 | 6–5 (0.545) | 3 |
| ACC | 11 | 4–7 (0.364) | 4 |
| Pac-12 | 9 | 6–3 (0.667) | 6 |
| Mountain West | 7 | 3–4 (0.429) | 1 |
| Big 12 | 7 | 2–5 (0.286) | 3 |
| Conference USA | 5 | 4–1 (0.800) | 1 |
| American | 5 | 2–3 (0.400) | 1 |
| MAC | 5 | 2–3 (0.400) | 0 |
| Independents | 3 | 2–1 (0.667) | 0 |
| Sun Belt | 3 | 1–2 (0.333) | 0 |
The 2014–15 NCAA football bowl games were a series of college football bowl games. They completed the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season, and included 39 team-competitive games and four all-star games. The games began on December 20, 2014 and, aside from the all-star games, ended with the 2015 College Football Playoff National Championship which was played on January 12, 2015.
A record total of 39 postseason games were played, including the national championship game. To fill the 76 available bowl slots, a total of 13 teams with non-winning seasons participated in bowl games—12 with a .500 (6-6) season and one sub-.500 team (6-7).
The schedule for the 2014–15 bowl games is below. All times are EST (UTC−5). The rankings used are the CFP rankings.
The 2014–15 postseason was the first to feature a College Football Playoff (CFP) to determine a national champion of Division I FBS college football. Four teams were selected by a 13-member committee to participate in a single-elimination tournament, whose semifinals were held at the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl as part of a yearly rotation of six bowls. Their winners advanced to the 2015 College Football Playoff National Championship at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Starting with the 2014–15 postseason, six College Football Playoff (CFP) bowl games will host two semifinal playoff games on a rotating basis—the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Peach Bowl, and Fiesta Bowl. The games will be played on two days, on or around January 1. The winners of the two semifinal games will advance to the College Football Playoff National Championship. These six bowl games are also known as the New Year's Six. All games will be televised by ESPN and broadcast on the radio by ESPN Radio.
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