Bowl Record by Conference
Conference	Bowls	Record	Final AP Poll
SEC	13	6–7 (0.462)	5
ACC	12	9–3 (0.750)	5
Big Ten	10	3–7 (0.300)	4
American	7	2–5 (0.286)	1
Conference USA	7	4–3 (0.571)	0
Mountain West	7	4–3 (0.571)	1
Big 12	6	4–2 (0.667)	3
MAC	6	0–6 (0.000)	1
Pac-12	6	3–3 (0.500)	5
Sun Belt	6	4–2 (0.667)	0
Independents	2	2–0 (1.000)	0

Bowl Record by Conference
Conference	Bowls	Record	Final AP Poll
SEC	13	6–7 (0.462)	5
ACC	12	9–3 (0.750)	5
Big Ten	10	3–7 (0.300)	4
American	7	2–5 (0.286)	1
Conference USA	7	4–3 (0.571)	0
Mountain West	7	4–3 (0.571)	1
Big 12	6	4–2 (0.667)	3
MAC	6	0–6 (0.000)	1
Pac-12	6	3–3 (0.500)	5
Sun Belt	6	4–2 (0.667)	0
Independents	2	2–0 (1.000)	0

The 2016–17 NCAA football bowl games were a series of college football bowl games which completed the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The games began on December 17, 2016, and aside from the all-star games ended with the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship which was played on January 9, 2017.

A total of 41 team-competitive postseason games were played, including the national championship game. To fill the 80 available bowl slots, a record 20 teams (25% of all participants) with non-winning seasons participated in bowl games—17 had a .500 (6-6) season, and three sub-.500 (one 6-7 and two 5-7) teams were required. For example, none of the six teams that played in bowls on December 26 had a winning record. This was the seventh time in the past nine years that teams with losing records have participated in bowl games.

The schedule for the 2016–17 bowl games are below. All times are EST (UTC−5).

The College Football Playoff system was used to determine a national champion of Division I FBS college football. A 13-member committee of experts ranked the top 25 teams in the nation after each of the last seven weeks of the 2016 season. The top four teams in the final ranking then played a single-elimination semifinal round, with the winners advancing to the National Championship game.

The semi-final games were held at the Fiesta Bowl and the Peach Bowl as part of a yearly rotation of three pairs of six bowls. Their winners advanced to the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, on January 9, 2017. As with the 2015 season, the two semi-final bowls were held on New Year's Eve (Saturday, December 31, 2016), as the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl are guaranteed exclusive TV time slots on January 2 if New Year's Day fell on a Sunday (there is a gentleman's agreement to not play New Year's Day bowl games against NFL games, which are played as usual when New Year's Day falls on a Sunday), regardless of whether they will be hosting a semifinal game.

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