1998–99 NCAA football bowl games

Season

1998

Number of bowls

Bowl games

December 19, 1998 –
January 4, 1999

National Championship

Fiesta Bowl

Location of Championship

Sun Devil Stadium
Tempe, AZ

Champions

Tennessee

Bowl record by conference
Conference	Bowls	Record	Final AP poll
SEC	8	4–4 (0.500)	7
Big 12	7	3–4 (0.429)	5
Big Ten	5	5–0 (1.000)	5
ACC	5	2–3 (0.400)	3
Pac-10	5	1–4 (0.200)	2
Big East	4	2–2 (0.500)	3
WAC	4	2–2 (0.500)	1
CUSA	3	1–2 (0.333)	1
Big West	1	1–0 (1.000)	0
MAC	1	1–0 (1.000)	0

The 1998–99 NCAA football bowl games concluded the 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season. In the first year of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) era, Tennessee defeated Florida State in the 1999 Fiesta Bowl, designated as the BCS National Championship Game for the 1998 season.

A total of 22 bowl games were played between December 19, 1998 and January 4, 1999 by 44 bowl-eligible teams. Two new bowl games were established in 1998–99: the Oahu Bowl and the Music City Bowl.

Non-BCS bowls

Date	Time	Game	Site	Result
Dec 19	6:00 PM	Las Vegas Bowl	Sam Boyd Stadium Las Vegas, NV	North Carolina 20, San Diego State 13
Dec 23	8:00 PM	Motor City Bowl	Pontiac Silverdome Pontiac, MI	Marshall 48, Louisville 29
Dec 25	3:30 PM	Aloha Bowl	Aloha Stadium Honolulu, HI	Colorado 51, No. 21 Oregon 43
Dec 25	8:30 PM	Oahu Bowl	Aloha Stadium Honolulu, HI	No. 16 Air Force 45, Washington 25
Dec 26	8:00 PM	Insight.com Bowl	Arizona Stadium Tucson, AZ	No. 23 Missouri 34, West Virginia 31
Dec 29	5:00 PM	Music City Bowl	Vanderbilt Stadium Nashville, TN	Virginia Tech 38, Alabama 7
	7:30 PM	MicronPC Bowl	Pro Player Stadium Miami Gardens, FL	No. 24 Miami (FL) 46, NC State 23
	8:30 PM	Alamo Bowl	Alamodome San Antonio, TX	Purdue 37, No. 4 Kansas State 34
Dec 30	3:00 PM	Humanitarian Bowl	Bronco Stadium Boise, ID	Idaho 42, Southern Miss 35
Dec 30	8:00 PM	Holiday Bowl	Qualcomm Stadium San Diego, CA	No. 5 Arizona 23, No. 14 Nebraska 20
Dec 31	1:30 PM	Liberty Bowl	Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium Memphis, TN	No. 10 Tulane 41, BYU 27
	2:00 PM	Sun Bowl	Sun Bowl El Paso, TX	TCU 28, USC 19
	5:00 PM	Peach Bowl	Georgia Dome Atlanta, GA	No. 19 Georgia 35, No. 13 Virginia 33
	8:30 PM	Independence Bowl	Independence Stadium Shreveport, LA	Ole Miss 35, Texas Tech 18
Jan 1	11:00 AM	Outback Bowl	Raymond James Stadium Tampa, FL	No. 22 Penn State 26, Kentucky 14
	11:00 AM	Cotton Bowl Classic	Cotton Bowl Dallas, TX	No. 20 Texas 38, No. 25 Mississippi State 11
	12:30 PM	Gator Bowl	Alltel Stadium Jacksonville, FL	No. 12 Georgia Tech 35, No. 17 Notre Dame 28
	1:00 PM	Florida Citrus Bowl	Florida Citrus Bowl Orlando, FL	No. 15 Michigan 45, No. 11 Arkansas 31
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game. All times are in Eastern Time.

BCS bowls

Date	Time	Game	Site	Result
Jan 1	4:30 PM	Rose Bowl	Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA	No. 9 Wisconsin 38, No. 6 UCLA 31
Jan 1	8:30 PM	Sugar Bowl	Louisiana Superdome New Orleans, LA	No. 3 Ohio State 24, No. 8 Texas A&M 14
Jan 2	8:00 PM	Orange Bowl	Miami Orange Bowl Miami, FL	No. 7 Florida 31, No. 18 Syracuse 10
Jan 4	8:00 PM	Fiesta Bowl (BCS National Championship Game)	Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, AZ	No. 1 Tennessee 23, No. 2 Florida State 16
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game. All times are in Eastern Time.

References

"1998 College Football Bowl Games". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
^ "Bowl schedule". The Baltimore Sun. December 10, 1998. p. 143 – via Newspapers.com.

v t e 1998–99 NCAA football bowl game season
Las Vegas (Dec. 19) Motor City (Dec. 23) Aloha (Dec. 25) Oahu (Dec. 25) Insight.com (Dec. 26) Alamo (Dec. 29) Music City (Dec. 29) MicronPC (Dec. 29) Holiday (Dec. 30) Humanitarian (Dec. 30) Liberty (Dec. 31) Peach (Dec. 31) Sun (Dec. 31) Independence (Dec. 31) Cotton (Jan. 1) Outback (Jan. 1) Gator (Jan. 1) Florida Citrus (Jan. 1)
Bowl Championship Series games: Rose Bowl (Jan. 1) Sugar (Jan. 1) Orange (Jan. 2) Fiesta (Jan. 4)
All-Star Games: East–West Shrine Game (Jan. 16) Senior Bowl (Jan. 23)

v t e 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season
Conference seasons	ACC Big 12 Big East Big Ten Big West Conference USA Mid-American Pac-10 SEC WAC
Inter-conference	Bowl games Rankings
All-Americans	1998 College Football All-America Team

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