2013–14 NCAA football bowl games
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.
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Champions | Florida State | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowl Challenge Cup winner | SEC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The total of 35 team-competitive bowls was unchanged from the previous year. While bowl games had been the purview of only the very best teams for nearly a century, this was the eighth consecutive year that teams with non-winning seasons participated in bowl games. To fill the 70 available bowl slots, a total of eight teams (11% of all participants) with non-winning seasons participated in bowl games—all eight had a .500 (6–6) season.