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The 2008–09 NCAA football bowl games, which concluded the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season, contained a record number of bowl games scheduled in college football history. A total of 37 bowl games, 34 team-competitive games and three all-star games, were played starting on December 20, 2008, with four contests and concluding with the ...
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 ...
In college football, 2008 NCAA football bowl games may refer to: 2007-08 NCAA football bowl games, for games played in January 2008 as part of the 2007 season.
The game started at 2:30 pm US CST (2030 UTC) on Wednesday, December 31, 2008. The game, telecast on ESPN, pitted the Boston College Eagles against the Vanderbilt Commodores. [3] The Commodores, playing near their Nashville campus, won 16–14, earned their first bowl win in exactly 53 years, and completed their first winning season since 1982. [4]
This article lists the all-time win/loss NCAA Division I FBS sanctioned bowl game records for all NCAA college football teams. Win–loss records are current as of the 2024–25 bowl season . The columns for "last bowl season" and "last bowl game" have been updated to reflect 2024–25 bowl appearances for all games played through January 10, 2025.
SEC Bowl Games Game Date Location/Time* Television Winner + Score Loser + Score Attendance Payout Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl: December 31, 2008 LP Field Nashville, Tennessee 2:30 p.m. ESPN: Vanderbilt: 16 Boston College: 14 54,250: $1,700,000 Chick-fil-A Bowl: December 31, 2008 Georgia Dome Atlanta, Georgia 6:30 p.m. ESPN: LSU: 38 Georgia ...
The regular season began on August 28, 2008, and ended on December 6, 2008. The postseason concluded on January 8, 2009, with the BCS National Championship Game in Miami Gardens, Florida , which featured the top two teams ranked by the Bowl Championship Series (BCS): the No. 2 Florida Gators (No. 1 in the AP Poll ) and No. 1 Oklahoma Sooners ...
The 2008 PapaJohns.com Bowl was the third edition of the college football bowl game, and was played at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. The game was played starting at 2 p.m. US CST on Monday, December 29, 2008. The game, telecast on ESPN, pitted the Rutgers Scarlet Knights against the North Carolina State Wolfpack.