College football bowl season rolls on Saturday, December 27, with an action-packed slate of games throughout the day. A total of eight games will be played on Saturday, beginning bright and early with the Military Bowl between East Carolina and Pitt in Annapolis,

Saturday will bring the grandaddy of the 2025 College Football Bowl Season as eight games featuring five ranked teams will run from 11 a.m. until well past midnight on Dec. 27. The GoBowling Military Bowl will kick off of the action at 11 a.m. ET with Pittsburgh vs. East Carolina. The rest of the lineup:

The Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens will kick off at 8:20 p.m. on Sunday as the Sunday Night Football game for the Week 18 state. Pittsburgh and Baltimore will be the first ever matchup between the pair that will be a winner-takes-all matchup in the final game of the year.

Pitt announced its full 2026 football schedule Tuesday afternoon, including a nine-game ACC slate. The Panthers, who recently revealed the cancellation of next season’s contest with Wisconsin, instead will play Bucknell on Sept.

Be sure to check out DraftKings for all the latest game odds & team props for every matchup this week on the College Football schedule! PJ Fleck is 6-0 all-time in bowl games with Minnesota and he gets a New Mexico team that 100-percent overachieved based on preseason predictions.

The Cavaliers and Nittany Lions both closed out their seasons in style during the busiest day of the 2025-26 college football bowl season

Watt is still battling a partially collapsed lung as he tries to get back into football shape. Head coach Mike Tomlin told CBS sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson that Watt needed a full week of practice, rather than just three limited practices, before they would clear him to return to the field.

Pitt football's defensive coordinator, Randy Bates, is retiring after the Panthers' bowl game, marking the end of a 40-plus year career.