As the last to follow a four-team format before expanding to 12 teams next year, the 2023/24 Bowl season marks the end of an era for the college football playoffs, and the stiff-arm doled out to the unbeaten Florida State Seminoles by the CFP Selection Committee has piled the pressure on the Alabama Crimson Tide (4), the beneficiaries of the snub, to justify their place.
Nick Saban's men will face Jim Harbaugh's equally controversial Michigan Wolverines (1) in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day, before the Washington Huskies (2) take on the Texas Longhorns (3) in the Sugar Bowl. Both games act as semi-finals for the 2024 College Football Playoff National Championship Game, which is set for Monday, January 8.
