College Football Playoff
The 2018-19 college football bowl schedule was released by ESPN on Wednesday afternoon. This upcoming season, the Worldwide Leader will be airing 35 bowl games across its family of networks beginning on Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018, and ending on Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, with the College Football Playoff National Championship Game. The game will kickoff at 8:00 p.m. ET at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. on ESPN.
The bowl season kicks off with five games on opening day, beginning with the Celebration Bowl at noon and continuing with the Las Vegas Bowl, Gildan New Mexico Bowl, Raycom Media Camellia Bowl, and the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl.
The College Football Playoff will get underway on Saturday, Dec. 29 with the national semifinals at the Capital One Orange Bowl and Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic.
When is a bowl game coming near you?
The full 2018-19 college football bowl schedule can be seen below:
| Date | Time (ET) | Game | Network |
| Sat, Dec. 15 | Noon | Celebration Bowl | ABC |
| 2 p.m. | Gildan New Mexico Bowl | ESPN | |
| 3:30 p.m. | Las Vegas Bowl | ABC | |
| 5:30 p.m. | Raycom Media Camellia Bowl | ESPN | |
| 9 p.m. | R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl | ESPN | |
| Tue, Dec. 18 | 7 p.m. | Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl | ESPN |
| Wed, Dec. 19 | 8 p.m. | Frisco Bowl | ESPN |
| Thu, Dec. 20 | 8 p.m. | Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl | ESPN |
| Fri, Dec. 21 | 12:30 p.m. | Bahamas Bowl | ESPN |
| 4 p.m. | Famous Idaho Potato Bowl | ESPN | |
| Sat, Dec. 22 | Noon | Birmingham Bowl | ESPN |
| 3:30 p.m. | Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl | ESPN | |
| 7 p.m. | Dollar General Bowl | ESPN | |
| 10:30 p.m. | Hawai’i Bowl | ESPN | |
| Wed, Dec. 26 | 1:30 p.m. | Heart of Dallas Bowl | ESPN |
| 5:15 p.m. | Quick Lane Bowl | ESPN | |
| 9 p.m. | Cactus Bowl | ESPN | |
| Thu, Dec. 27 | 1:30 p.m. | Walk-On’s Independence Bowl | ESPN |
| 5:15 p.m. | New Era Pinstripe Bowl | ESPN | |
| 9 p.m. | Academy Sports + Outdoors Texas Bowl | ESPN | |
| Fri, Dec. 28 | 1:30 p.m. | Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl | ESPN |
| 5:15 p.m. | Camping World Bowl | ESPN | |
| 9 p.m. | Valero Alamo Bowl | ESPN | |
| Sat, Dec. 29 | Noon | Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl | ESPN |
| Noon | Belk Bowl | ABC | |
| 4 or 8 p.m. | College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl | ESPN | |
| 4 or 8 p.m. | College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic | ESPN | |
| Mon, Dec. 31 | Noon | Military Bowl Presented by Northrop Grumman | ESPN |
| 3:45 p.m. | AutoZone Liberty Bowl | ESPN | |
| 7:30 p.m. | TaxSlayer Gator Bowl | ESPN | |
| Tue, Jan 1 | Noon | Outback Bowl | ESPN2 |
| 1 p.m. | Citrus Bowl | ABC | |
| 1 p.m. | PlayStation Fiesta Bowl | ESPN | |
| 5 p.m. | Rose Bowl Game Presented by Northwestern Mutual | ESPN | |
| 8:30 p.m. | Allstate Sugar Bowl | ESPN | |
| Mon, Jan. 7 | 8 p.m. | College Football Playoff National Championship Presented By AT&T | ESPN |
