2006–07 NCAA football bowl games
The 2006–07 NCAA football bowl games concluded the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season in college football.
| 2006–07 NCAA football bowl games | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Season | 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Regular season | August 31 – December 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of bowls | 32 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| All-star games | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowl games | December 19, 2006 – January 8, 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National Championship | 2007 BCS Championship Game | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location of Championship | University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, Arizona | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Champions | Florida Gators | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowl Challenge Cup winner | Big East | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A record of 32 team-competitive plus five all-star postseason games were played, with the addition of the new stand-alone Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game, the International Bowl in Toronto, Ontario (the first all-USA bowl game played outside the country since the 1937 Bacardi Bowl in Cuba), the Papajohns.com Bowl, the New Mexico Bowl, and the post-season-ending all-star Texas vs. The Nation Game. To fill the 64 available bowl slots from the 119 schools in the Bowl Subdivision, a record 7 teams (11% of all participants) with non-winning seasons participated in bowl games—all seven had a .500 (6-6) season.
Along with the increase in bowl games, the NCAA ruled that teams could schedule twelve regular-season games (up from eleven) beginning in the 2006 season. NCAA teams in Alaska and Hawaii, and their home opponents, are allowed to schedule an extra game over and above this limit. Two teams in any conferences with a championship final could play a 13th game in that conference championship [the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big 12 Conference, Conference USA (C-USA), Mid-American Conference (MAC), and Southeastern Conference (SEC)]. The increase in bowl games and season schedule resulted in the NCAA deciding to allow teams with a 6–6 record to be bowl eligible if either the team or their conference has negotiated a bowl contract.