2014–15 NCAA football bowl games
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.
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location of Championship | AT&T Stadium Arlington, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Champions | Ohio State Buckeyes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowl Challenge Cup winner | Conference USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A new record total of 39 team-competitive bowl games were played, including the national championship game and the inaugural Miami Beach Bowl, Camellia Bowl, Boca Raton Bowl and Bahamas Bowl. While bowl games had been the purview of only the very best teams for nearly a century, this was the ninth consecutive year that teams with non-winning seasons participated in bowl games. To fill the 76 available team-competitive bowl slots, a total of 13 teams (17% of all participants) with non-winning seasons participated in bowl games—12 with a .500 (6-6) season and, for the third time in four years, a team with a sub-.500 (6-7) season.