Along the way, there will be 11 games that decide the national champion with contests being played on campus for the first time and including the six major bowls. Those first-round games will take place Dec.

New York Times columnist John Kieran opined on the influx of college football’s “overflowing bowls.” The nation’s buffet of postseason exhibitions on New Year’s Day was about to triple from one to three — or 44 fewer games than are on this year’s Division I bowl schedule,