ESPN announces 2023-24 college football bowl schedule

We’re still a few months out from the start of the 2023 college football season, but we now know the bowl lineup for this winter. ESPN announced the full 2023-24 bowl schedule on Wednesday, coinciding with the announcement of game times for early-season matchups on its platforms. This will be the last bowl season under the current format before the College Football Playoff expands to 12 teams in 2024.

Bowl season will officially begin on Saturday, December 16 with the Bahamas Bowl kicking off a slate of seven games for that day. The action will carry through the holidays and all the way through New Year’s Day on Monday, January 1. The two College Football Playoff semifinal games will be held on New Year’s with the Rose Bowl kicking off at its traditional time of 5 p.m. ET and the Sugar Bowl kicking off right afterwards at 8:45 p.m. ET. Then one week later on January 8, the College Football Playoff National Championship Game will kick off at 7:30 p.m. ET from NRG Stadium in Houston, TX.

2023 College Football Bowl schedule

All Times ET

Saturday, December 16

Hometown Lenders Bahamas Bowl, 11 a.m., ESPN (Nassau, Bahamas)
Cricket Celebration Bowl, Noon, ABC (Atlanta, GA)
R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl, 2:15 p.m., ESPN (New Orleans, LA)
Cure Bowl, 3:30 p.m., ABC (Orlando, FL)
New Mexico Bowl, 5:45 p.m., ESPN (Albuquerque, NM)
LA Bowl, 7:30 p.m., ABC (Inglewood, CA)
Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl, 9:15 p.m., ESPN (Shreveport, LA)

Monday, December 18

Myrtle Beach Bowl, 2:30 p.m., ESPN (Conway, SC)

Tuesday, December 19

Frisco Bowl, 9 p.m,, ESPN (Frisco, TX)

Thursday, December 21

Roofclaim.com Boca Raton Bowl, 8 p.m., ESPN (Boca Raton, FL)

Friday, December 22

Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl, 6:30 p.m., ESPN (Tampa, FL)

Saturday, December 23

Birmingham Bowl, Noon, ABC (Birmingham, AL)
Camelia Bowl, Noon, ESPN (Montgomery, AL)
Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl, 3:30 p.m., ABC (Fort Worth, TX)
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, 3:30 p.m., ESPN (Boise, ID)
68 Ventures Bowl, 7 p.m., ESPN (Mobile, AL)
SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl, 7:30 p.m., ABC (Las Vegas, NV)
EasyPost Hawai’i Bowl, 10:30 p.m., ESPN (Honolulu, HI)

Tuesday, December 26

Quick Lane Bowl, 2 p.m., ESPN (Detroit, MI)
SERVPRO First Responder Bowl, 5:30 p.m., ESPN (Dallas, TX)
Guaranteed Rate Bowl, 9 p.m., ESPN (Phoenix, AZ)

Wednesday, December 27

Military Bowl, 2 p.m., ESPN (Annapolis, MD)
Duke’s Mayo Bowl, 5:30 p.m., ESPN (Charlotte, NC)
TaxAct Texas Bowl, 9 p.m., ESPN (Houston, TX)

Thursday, December 28

Wasabi Fenway Bowl, 11 a.m., ESPN (Boston, MA)
Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl, 2:15 p.m., ESPN (Bronx, NY)
Pop-Tarts Bowl, 5:45 p.m., ESPN (Orlando, FL)
Valero Alamo Bowl, 9:15 p.m., ESPN (San Antonio, TX)

Friday, December 29

TaxSlayer Gator Bowl, Noon, ESPN (Jacksonville, FL)
Tony The Tiger Sun Bowl, 2 p.m., CBS (El Paso, TX)
AutoZone Liberty Bowl, 3:30 p.m., ESPN (Memphis, TN)
Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, 8 p.m., ESPN* (Arlington, TX)

Saturday, December 30

Chik-fil-A Peach Bowl, Noon, ESPN* (Atlanta, GA)
Transperfect Music City Bowl, 2 p.m., ABC (Nashville, TN)
Capital One Orange Bowl, 4 p.m., ESPN* (Miami, FL)
Barstool Sports Arizona Bowl, 4:30 p.m., Barstool.tv (Tuscon, AZ)

Monday, January 1

ReliaQuest Bowl, Noon, ESPN2 (Tampa, FL)
Cheez-It Citrus Bowl, 1 p.m., ABC (Orlando, FL)
Vrbo Fiesta Bowl, 1 p.m., ESPN* (Glendale, AZ)
Rose Bowl Game (CFP semifinal), 5 p.m., ESPN* (Pasadena, CA)
Allstate Sugar Bowl (CFP semifinal), 8:45 p.m., ESPN* (New Orleans, LA)

Monday, January 8

College Football Playoff National Championship Game, 7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN (Houston, TX)

*New Year’s Six bowl