Tag: 2022 bowl schedule

Holiday sports TV guide: Trojan football, bowl games, World Cup, USC basketball, NFL

There are two huge sports weekends coming up in the next month, with #USC being part of them. We’ll help you plan your schedule.

The holidays are a time for celebrating and feasting, for taking some time to enjoy life at the end of a difficult year in a generally difficult time. Christmas and New Year’s Day are painful times for some, but if at all possible, it’s good to get away from the grind and recharge before the new year. The week between Dec. 25 and Jan. 1 is the one week of the year when the days of the week blur together. Wednesday doesn’t feel like Wednesday, Monday doesn’t feel like Monday. It’s holiday time and a chance to hopefully take a break.

There’s lots of sports on TV this December, with the World Cup adding an ingredient to the mix. Christmas Day is a Sunday, which means the NFL plays most of its games on Saturday, Dec. 24, this year. There’s also a plot twist involving the big bowl games on Jan. 2. (The big bowls are that day because Jan. 1 is an NFL Sunday.)

USC Athletics is part of this feast of sports on TV. Let’s help you plan your schedule so that you can do other holiday activities in certain time slots:

2022-2023 college football bowl game watchability rankings

There are always a few bowl games you simply can’t miss. There are a few bowls you simply shouldn’t bother watching. We rank them all here:

It is one of the more fun articles any college football blogger gets to write every year: the watchability rankings for all the bowl games.

There are always some “dogs with fleas” matchups, and there are always some “ooooooh, I can’t wait to watch that one” matchups. There are other matchups which fit in between, the kinds of games where one says, “It’s not great, it’s not terrible, but it’s a bowl game, and it’s college football.

Let’s look at the bowl schedule and the 2022 bowl games through the prism of which games are most — and least — watchable. The bad bowls will be dealt with in a bundle, precisely because they’re not worth discussing in greater depth:

2022-2023 Pac-12 football bowl schedule

The #Pac12 has seven bowl teams, two of them in the New Year’s Six. Get a look at all the postseason matchups for the Pac. One is against the SEC.

The 2022-2023 bowl schedule is out. There are 42 total games on the slate. The Pac-12 has one-sixth of those 42 games, with seven different teams going bowling this postseason.

Utah heads to the Rose Bowl as the Pac-12 champion. USC is the other New Year’s Six team from the conference. The Pac-12 often fails to get two teams in the New Year’s Six, so this year has surpassed expectations despite the lack of a playoff berth.

Washington would have been in the Rose Bowl had USC beaten Utah, but that did not happen. Oregon, Oregon State, UCLA, and Washington State round out the Pac-12 bowl lineup.

See where all seven Pac-12 bowl teams landed:

2022-2023 bowl schedule, part two: December 28 – January 2

Friday, Dec. 30 through Monday, Jan. 2 — it’s a 4-day New Year’s weekend. We have the info for the bowls that weekend … and much more. #RoseBowl #CottonBowl

There are 42 bowl games in the college football postseason. If you’re planning on attending or watching a bowl, there are really two segments of bowl games: pre-Christmas and New Year’s. The New Year’s bowls can be considered part of the long New Year’s weekend, which runs from Friday, Dec. 30 through Monday, Jan. 2. New Year’s Day is on a Sunday, which means there will be no bowls that day. January 1 will be an NFL Sunday this year.

Here are the 20 bowls on the back end of the 42-game bowl schedule, running from Wednesday, Dec. 28 through Monday, Jan. 2. Then comes the national championship game on Monday, Jan. 9 in Los Angeles:

2022-2023 bowl schedule, part one: December 16-27

There are 42 bowls. That’s a lot, so we’re giving you two parts. Part one has 22 of the 42 bowls. Most are before Christmas, including the Fenway (Park) Bowl.

There are 42 bowl games on this season’s schedule. We don’t count the College Football Playoff National Championship Game, because that is the second game the competing teams will play in. It is a tournament game rather than a bowl. It is played nine days after a bowl game. Some are counting that as a 43rd bowl, but we’re not.

Taking in 42 games is a lot, so we’re going to cut the bowl schedule roughly in half. The first 22 bowls are played mostly before Christmas Day, plus one game on Dec. 26 and four on Dec. 27. We have the dates, times, TV networks, and matchups.

Check out the schedule below, starting on Friday, Dec. 16 with an afternoon doubleheader, then a seven-game slate on Saturday, Dec. 17: