2006–07 NCAA football bowl games
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The 2006–07 NCAA football bowl games concluded the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season in college football.
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Season | 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Regular season | August 31 – December 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of bowls | 32 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All-star games | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowl games | December 19, 2006 – January 8, 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National Championship | 2007 BCS Championship Game | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location of Championship | University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, Arizona | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Champions | Florida Gators | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowl Challenge Cup winner | Big East | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A record of 32 team-competitive plus five all-star postseason games were played, with the addition of the new stand-alone Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game, the International Bowl in Toronto, Ontario (the first all-USA bowl game played outside the country since the 1937 Bacardi Bowl in Cuba), the Papajohns.com Bowl, the New Mexico Bowl, and the post-season-ending all-star Texas vs. The Nation Game. To fill the 64 available bowl slots from the 119 schools in the Bowl Subdivision, a record 7 teams (11% of all participants) with non-winning seasons participated in bowl games—all seven had a .500 (6-6) season.
Along with the increase in bowl games, the NCAA ruled that teams could schedule twelve regular-season games (up from eleven) beginning in the 2006 season.[1] NCAA teams in Alaska and Hawaii, and their home opponents, are allowed to schedule an extra game over and above this limit. Two teams in any conferences with a championship final could play a 13th game in that conference championship [the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big 12 Conference, Conference USA (C-USA), Mid-American Conference (MAC), and Southeastern Conference (SEC)]. The increase in bowl games and season schedule resulted in the NCAA deciding to allow teams with a 6–6 record to be bowl eligible if either the team or their conference has negotiated a bowl contract.