New Year S Six Bowl History

The new year s six sometimes abbreviated as ny6 is an unofficial but commonly used term that refers to the top six major ncaa division i football bowl subdivision bowl games.

New year s six bowl history. 14 coastal carolina chanticleers and it paid off for the underdog home team as a 22 17 victory for the chants puts them clearly in the conversation for a new years six bowl. Unfortunately the bowl pairings do not provide many chances for that. The rose bowl sugar bowl orange bowl cotton bowl peach bowl and fiesta bowl.

Gary mckeller deseret news. This year those games are the rose bowl and the sugar bowl. The same is true for the new year s six games the college football playoff committee is scheduled to release its final rankings on sunday december 20 with semifinals slated for january 1 2021.

These six top tier bowl games rotate the hosting of the two college football playoff semifinal gam. The so called new year s six bowl games include the two cfp bowl games. Sec getting the cfp semifinals this year it s almost a free for all in the new year s six.

As the season draws to a close and the. 8 byu cougars agreed to go to conway south carolina and take on no. In addition to the four teams selected for the playoff the final cfp rankings are used to help determine the participants for the other four new year s six bowls that.

The remaining games are four of college football s most high profile postseason events. Auburn also missed out as did notre dame. Utah went from a possible playoff.

New group of five rankings are influenced by coastal carolina s monumental win over byu as they close the gap on cincinnati for a new year s six bowl. Pac 12 and sugar bowl usually big 12 vs. For the first time since the college football playoff was implemented alabama will not be in a new year s six bowl.