Championship Location of Championship Mercedes-Benz Stadium Atlanta Champions Alabama Crimson Tide Bowl Challenge Cup winner Big Ten Bowl record by conference Conference.

This marks only the second time in seven years that no teams with losing seasons (67 or 57) had to be invited to fill available bowl berths.

A 13-member committee of experts ranked the top 25 teams in the nation after each of the last seven weeks of the 2017 season.

The top four teams in the final ranking played a single-elimination semifinal round, with the winners advancing to the National Championship game.

Both were played on New Years Day, as part of a yearly rotation of three pairs of six bowls, commonly referred to as the CFP New Years Six bowl games.

Their winners advanced to the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 8, 2018.

While bowl games had been the purview of only the very best teams for nearly a century, the NCAA had to lower its postseason eligibility criteria repeatedly (2006, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013), eventually allowing teams with losing seasons (57) to participate in bowls due to there being not enough bowl-eligible teams, while also having to allow teams from the same conference to meet in the 2015 Arizona Bowl due to the lack of eligible teams to meet its other tie-ins.

For the 201718 bowl season, 62 of the 130 teams playing in Division I FBS were deemed eligible to participate in a bowl game, with 60 actually receiving invites to fill the 78 available slots.

The Russel Athletic Bowl was renamed the Camping World Bowl under a new sponsorship, and after going without a sponsor for two years, the St.

Petersburg Bowl was renamed the Gasparilla Bowl (a name that pays homage to Tampa Bays Gasparilla Pirate Festival ).

The team had a record of 66, with one of the wins their 776 victory over Delaware State against an FCS team.

For such a game to count towards bowl eligibility, the FCS opponent must have used at least 90 percent of its allotted scholarships, and it was not clear that Delaware State had done so.

But a few days later the Florida State administration issued a statement saying that Delaware State did in fact meet that threshold, once non-athletic scholarship funds were factored in.

College Football Playoff tweaks dates in upcoming seasons.

ESPN. Retrieved July 28, 2016.

Florida State Is Not Bowl Eligible but Will Still Play in Independence Bowl.

ESPN. Retrieved January 10, 2019.

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