Season 2003 All-star games 2 | Number of bowls 28 National Championship 2004 Sugar Bowl | |
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Bowl games December 16, 2003 –
January 3, 2004 Location of Championship Louisiana Superdome,
New Orleans, Louisiana | ||
The 2003-04 NCAA college football bowl season was a series of 28 post-season games (including the Bowl Championship Series) played in December 2003 and January 2004 for Division I-A football teams and their all-stars. The post-season began with the New Orleans Bowl on December 16, 2003, and concluded on January 30, 2004, with the season-ending Senior Bowl.
A total of 28 team-competitive games, and two all-star games, were played. To fill the 56 available bowl slots, four teams with non-winning seasons participated in bowl games—all four had a .500 (6–6) season. While teams that did not have winning seasons were invited to bowl games, seven teams with winning records were left out: Northern Illinois (10–2); Connecticut (9-3); Marshall and Toledo (both 8–4); Air Force and Akron (both 7–5); and South Florida (7–4).