2007–08 NCAA football bowl games

The 2007–08 NCAA football bowl games concluded the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS regular season in college football.

2007–08 NCAA football bowl games
Bowl sites by state
Season2007
Regular seasonAugust 30–December 1
Number of bowls32
All-star games4
Bowl gamesDecember 20, 2007 –
January 7, 2008 (not counting post-BCS all-star games)
National Championship2008 BCS Championship Game
Location of ChampionshipLouisiana Superdome,
New Orleans, Louisiana
ChampionsLSU Tigers
Bowl Challenge Cup winnerMountain West
Bowl record by conference
Conference Bowls Record Final AP Poll
SEC 9 7–2 (0.778) 5
Big 12 8 5–3 (0.625) 5
Big Ten 8 3–5 (0.375) 4
ACC 8 2–6 (0.250) 3
Pac-10 6 4–2 (0.667) 4
Conference USA 6 2–4 (0.333) 0
Mountain West 5 4–1 (0.800) 1
Big East 5 3–2 (0.600) 2
WAC 4 1–3 (0.250) 1
MAC 3 0–3 (0.000) 0
Sun Belt 1 1–0 (1.000) 0
Independents 1 0–1 (0.000) 0

A total of 32 team-competitive plus four all-star postseason games were played. While bowl games had been the purview of only the very best teams for nearly a century, this was the second consecutive year that teams with non-winning seasons participated in bowl games. To fill the 64 available bowl slots from the 119 schools in the Bowl Subdivision, a total of seven teams (11% of all participants) with non-winning seasons participated in bowl gamesall seven had a .500 (6-6) season.

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