ESPN releases bowl schedule for 33 games at the end of the 2025 college football season

The 2025 college football bowl season begins on December 13.

ESPN released its schedule for the postseason on Thursday as the network will televise 33 bowl games outside of the 12-team College Football Playoff. The only non-playoff bowl games the network doesn’t have the rights to are the Holiday Bowl, Sun Bowl and the Arizona Bowl.

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Bowl season will unofficially begin with the Celebration Bowl on Dec. 13, and the first FBS bowl game of the season kicks off at 9 p.m. ET that night with the LA Bowl.

The biggest day of bowl season is on Dec. 27. Seven games will be featured on that Saturday along with multiple Week 17 NFL games.

There is a game missing from this year’s bowl slate, however. ESPN announced that the Bahamas Bowl would not take place at the end of the season and that “league commitments will fulfilled through other ESPN owned-and-operated games.” The network owns 17 bowl games and the Bahamas Bowl has annually featured teams from Conference USA and the MAC.

The entire ESPN FBS bowl schedule is listed below and all times are Eastern. The dates for the College Football Playoff were previously announced in April.

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Saturday, Dec. 13

LA Bowl (9 p.m., ESPN)

Tuesday, Dec. 16

IS4S Salute to Veterans Bowl (9 p.m. ESPN)

Wednesday, Dec. 17

Cure Bowl (5 p.m. ESPN)

68 Ventures Bowl (8:30 p.m., ESPN)

Friday, Dec. 19

Myrtle Beach Bowl (Noon, ESPN)

Gasparilla Bowl (3:30 p.m., ESPN)

Monday, Dec. 22

Potato Bowl (2 p.m., ESPN)

Tuesday, Dec. 23

Boca Raton Bowl (2 p.m., ESPN)

New Orleans Bowl (5:30 p.m., ESPN)

Frisco Bowl (9 p.m., ESPN)

Wednesday, Dec. 24

Hawaii Bowl (8 or 9 p.m., ESPN)

Friday, Dec. 26

GameAbove Sports Bowl (1 p.m., ESPN)

Rate Bowl (4:30 p.m., ESPN)

First Responder Bowl (8 p.m., ESPN)

Saturday, Dec. 27

Military Bowl (11 a.m., ESPN)

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Pinstripe Bowl (Noon, ABC)

Fenway Bowl (2:30 p.m., ESPN)

Pop-Tarts Bowl (3:30 p.m., ABC)

New Mexico Bowl (5:45 p.m., ESPN)

Gator Bowl (7:30 p.m., ABC)

Texas Bowl (9:15 p.m., ESPN)

Monday, Dec. 29

Birmingham Bowl (2 p.m., ESPN)

Tuesday, Dec. 30

Independence Bowl (2 p.m., ESPN)

Music City Bowl (5:30 p.m., ESPN)

Alamo Bowl (9 p.m., ESPN)

Wednesday, Dec. 31

ReliaQuest Bowl (Noon, ESPN)

Citrus Bowl (3 p.m., ABC)

Las Vegas Bowl (3:30 p.m., ESPN)

Friday, Jan. 2

Armed Forces Bowl (1 p.m., ESPN)

Liberty Bowl (4:30 p.m., ESPN)

Duke’s Mayo Bowl (8 p.m., ESPN)