2020–21 NCAA football bowl games
The 2020–21 NCAA football games are a series of college football bowl games scheduled to complete the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The games began on December 21, 2020, and, aside from the all-star games that follow, are planned to conclude with the 2021 College Football Playoff National Championship played on January 11, 2021. The number of bowl games was lower than in recent seasons, as both the regular season and postseason were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
About 2020–21 NCAA football bowl games in brief
The 2020–21 NCAA football games are a series of college football bowl games scheduled to complete the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The games began on December 21, 2020, and, aside from the all-star games that follow, are planned to conclude with the 2021 College Football Playoff National Championship played on January 11, 2021. The number of bowl games was lower than in recent seasons, as both the regular season and postseason were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In mid-October 2020, the NCAA waived bowl eligibility requirements for the 2020-21 bowl season. This led to nine teams with losing records accepting bids to bowl games. The College Football playoff system is used to determine a national championship.
The semifinal games for the2020–21 season were the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl. Both were played on Jan 1, 2021, as part of a yearly rotation of three pairs of six bowls, commonly referred to as the New Year’s Six bowlgames. The Rose Bowl game was relocated to AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, home of the Cotton Bowl Classic, after Governor Gavin Newsom’s orders in response to the CO VID- 19 pandemic in California would have resulted in the game being played behind closed doors without fans. The following annual bowl games had their 2020 editions canceled : The East–West Shrine Bowl and NFLPA Collegiate Bowl were canceled.
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