Bowl games have been a part of college football for over 100 years.  They have provided some of the greatest moments in college football history and add to the pageantry, color, and excitement of the game.  This season twenty-seven communities throughout the United States and Canada will host thirty-two post-season college football bowl games where some 6,400 student-athletes, 12,900 college band members, 1,200 cheerleaders, up to 100,000 additional performers and about 1.7 million fans will take part in the "college bowl experience." 

In fact, 54% of Division I-A teams will participate in this unique post-season experience, more than any other major NCAA sport.  The top two teams in the Bowl Championship Series rankings, Alabama and Texas, squared off in the BCS Championship Game in Pasadena this year.  However, thirty-two teams will become bowl champions and more than 100 Division I schools will share to some extent in the revenues generated by the current bowl system. 

“I think college football has the most exciting regular season of any sport because there is not a playoff system.  The whole season is a playoff system.”  -- Georgia Coach Mark Richt.

2010 Annual Football Bowl Association Meeting