For most of its history, the Division I Bowl Subdivision had avoided using a playoff tournament to determine an annual national champion, which was instead traditionally determined by a vote of sports writers and other non-players.
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Bowl games originally featured the very best teams in college football, with strict bowl eligibility requirements for teams to receive an invitation to a bowl game in a particular year; as of 1971, there were only 10 team-competitive bowl games.
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The number of bowl games has grown, reaching 20 games by the 1997 season, then rapidly expanding beyond 30 games by the 2006 season and 40 team-competitive games by the 2015 season.
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The matchups are determined on a conference rotation basis, with the Uteck Bowl games being played at the easternmost host team, while the Mitchell is at the westernmost host team.
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Since commercial air travel was either non-existent or very limited, the Bowl games were scheduled well after the end of the regular season to allow fans to travel to the game site.
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Up until around the 1950s, the small number of Bowl games were played solely on New Year's Day, with the only major exception being the holiday occurring on a Sunday.
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Attendance of 106,869 for the 1973 Rose Bowl games set the Rose Bowl games Stadium record, as well as the NCAA bowl game attendance record.
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The Rose Bowl games traditionally invited the champions of the Pac-10 and the Big Ten conferences.
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The Sugar Bowl games invited the SEC champion and the Orange Bowl games hosted the Big 8 conference champion.
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In 1995, the Bowl games Alliance, formed by the major bowls and conferences, put in place a system where the two highest ranked teams would play each other, even if they were each affiliated with a different bowl.
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The new system uses a four-team single-elimination tournament, with its participants selected and seeded by a committee; the semi-final games are rotated between pairs of the six member bowls yearly.
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Such college all-star games include the East–West Shrine Bowl, the Senior Bowl, the Hula Bowl, and the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl.
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Recently, the term "bowl" has been added to other games that have some special note or sub-plot to the actual game, in college or the National Football League.
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An example of this is the Bowden Bowl given to games where Florida State and Clemson were coached by the father-son duo of Bobby Bowden, and Tommy Bowden respectively.
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