2005-2006 жылғы NCAA футболдан ойындар сериясы

The 2005–06 NCAA football bowl games were a series of 28 post season games (including the Bowl Championship Series) that was played in December 2005 and January 2006 for Division I A football teams and all stars from Divisions I AA, II, and III, as well as from the NAIA. The post season began with the New Orleans Bowl on December 20, 2005, and concluded with the Senior Bowl, played on January 28, 2006. For the second consecutive year, the 28 team competitive bowl games were played by 56 teams with winning records, as no teams with non winning seasons (6–6, or .500) were invited to participate in bowl games.

–Non BCS BowlsDateTimeGameSiteMatchupRef. Dec 20 8:00 PM New Orleans Bowl Cajun FieldLafayette, LA Southern Miss 31, Arkansas State 19 Dec 21 8:00 PM GMAC Bowl Ladd–Peebles StadiumMobile, AL Toledo 45, UTEP 13Dec 22 8:00 PM Las Vegas Bowl Sam Boyd StadiumWhitney, NV California 35, BYU 28 10:30 PM Poinsettia Bowl Qualcomm StadiumSan Diego, CA Navy 51, Colorado State 30 Dec 23 8:00 PM Fort Worth Bowl Amon G. Carter StadiumFort Worth, TX Kansas 42, Houston 13 Dec 24 8:30 PM Hawaii Bowl Aloha StadiumHonolulu, HI Nevada 49, UCF 48 Dec 26 4:00 PM Motor City Bowl Ford FieldDetroit, MI Memphis 38, Akron 31Dec 27 5:00 PM Champs Sports Bowl Florida Citrus BowlOrlando, FL No. 23 Clemson 19, Colorado 10 8:30 PM Insight Bowl Chase FieldPhoenix, AZ Arizona State 45, Rutgers 40Dec 28 4:30 PM MPC Computers Bowl Bronco StadiumBoise, ID No. 19 Boston College 27, Boise State 21 8:00 PM Alamo Bowl AlamodomeSan Antonio, TX Nebraska 32, No. 20 Michigan 28Dec 29 4:30 PM Emerald Bowl SBC ParkSan Francisco, CA Utah 38, No. 24 Georgia Tech 10 8:00 PM Holiday Bowl Qualcomm StadiumSan Diego, CA Oklahoma 17, No. 6 Oregon 14Dec 30 12:00 PM Music City Bowl The ColiseumNashville, TN Virginia 34, Minnesota 31 2:00 PM Sun Bowl Sun BowlEl Paso, TX No. 17 UCLA 50, Northwestern 38 3:30 PM Independence Bowl Independence StadiumShreveport, LA Missouri 38, South Carolina 31 7:30 PM Peach Bowl Georgia DomeAtlanta, GA No. 10 LSU 40, No. 9 Miami (FL) 3Dec 31 11:00 AM Meineke Car Care Bowl Bank of America StadiumCharlotte, NC NC State 14, South Florida 0 1:00 PM Liberty Bowl Liberty Bowl Memorial StadiumMemphis, TN Tulsa 31, Fresno State 24 2:30 PM Houston Bowl Reliant StadiumHouston, TX No. 14 TCU 27, Iowa State 24Jan 2 11:00 AM Cotton Bowl Cotton BowlDallas, TX No. 13 Alabama 13, No. 18 Texas Tech 10 11:00 AM Outback Bowl Raymond James StadiumTampa, FL No. 16 Florida 31, No. 25 Iowa 24 12:30 PM Gator Bowl Alltel StadiumJacksonville, FL No. 12 Virginia Tech 35, No. 15 Louisville 24 1:00 PM Capital One Bowl Florida Citrus BowlOrlando, FL No. 21 Wisconsin 24, No. 7 Auburn 10BCS BowlsJan 2 4:30 PM Fiesta Bowl Sun Devil StadiumTempe, AZ No. 4 Ohio State 34, No. 5 Notre Dame 20 8:30 PM Sugar Bowl Georgia DomeAtlanta, GA No. 11 West Virginia 38, No. 8 Georgia 35 Jan 3 8:00 PM Orange Bowl Dolphins StadiumMiami Gardens, FL No. 3 Penn State 26, No. 22 Florida State 23 Jan 4 8:00 PM Rose Bowl (BCS National Championship Game) Rose BowlPasadena, CA No. 2 Texas 41, No. 1 USC 38 Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game. All times are in Eastern Time.

With 64 teams having winning records, and 56 slots in bowl games, there were more teams than slots available for teams to get a bowl bid. Again, as in 2004, two conferences — the Pac 10 and the SEC — did not have enough teams to fill the required number of slots for their non BCS bowls. A third conference — the Big Ten — had two teams in the BCS (Penn State as the conference champion, and Ohio State meeting Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl January 2). The biggest beneficiary this year was the ACC, which replaced the SEC at the Music City Bowl (Virginia) and the Pac 10 (Georgia Tech) at the Emerald Bowl; Conference USA also gained a slot, sending Memphis to the Motor City Bowl. Unlike last year, where a fighting incident during the game between Clemson and South Carolina led each team to impose a post season ban, no school forfeited post season play this year. The eight teams with winning records that did not get bowl bids were Louisiana Tech (7–4) from the WAC, MAC teams Miami (Ohio) (7–4), Bowling Green (6–5), Western Michigan (7–4), NIU (7–5) and Central Michigan (6–5), Mountain West representative New Mexico (6–5) and the Sun Belt's Louisiana–Lafayette (6–5). Four teams made their Division I A bowl debuts — Arkansas State (Sun Belt, New Orleans Bowl at Lafayette), South Florida (Big East, ), Central Florida (C USA, ) and Akron (MAC, Motor City Bowl). Akron, notably, had been the only bowl eligible team willing to accept an invitation to be left out of the 2004 bowl games. However, none of the teams benefitted from "beginner's luck", as each lost its game. Participants in non BCS bowls are selected on the basis of conference tie ins. All bowl payouts are given in US dollars. All records shown are pre bowl game.

Because New Year's Day 2006 fell on a Sunday, a day when the NFL plays most of its games, the league played all but two of its final regular season games that day, and all college football bowl games traditionally held that day were moved to January 2, which fell on a Monday. These games are generally considered to be the more important of the non BCS bowls, with half — the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic, the Toyota Gator Bowl and the Capital One Bowl — broadcast on over the air television rather than cable (namely ESPN), and with these six games' having larger than average purses; in 2005, for example, the Toyota Gator Bowl paid the lowest purse of the sextet, which, at $1.6 million still more than doubled the $750,000 purse standard for most non New Year's Day bowls, while the Capital One Bowl handed out the largest non BCS purse at roughly $5,312,000. All records shown are pre bowl game.

The purse for each BCS game was $14,998,000. All records shown are pre bowl game.

Both CBSSportsline. com and ESPN. com compiled an all bowl team after the completion of bowl season, determining the top bowl performances by position. The chart infra gives the lists by position, with each player's school in parentheses; where ESPN. com has chosen the same player as CBSSportsline. com, only the last name is given in the second entry. PositionCBSSportsline. com Selection(s)ESPN. com Selection(s)QuarterbackVince Young (Texas)YoungRunning backSteve Slaton (West Virginia), DeAngelo Williams (Memphis), Reggie Campbell (Navy)Slaton, WilliamsWide receiverBrandon Marshall (Central Florida), Travis LaTendresse (Utah)LaTendresse; Ted Ginn, Junior (Ohio State)Tight endTom Santi (Virginia)David Thomas (Texas)Offensive linemanTravis Garrett, Ryan Stanchek, Dan Mozes, Jeremy Sheffey, Garin Justice (all West Virginia)Chris Messner (Oklahoma), Antron Harper (Navy), Antoine Caldwell (Alabama), Will Arnold (Louisiana State), Andrew Carnahan (Arizona State)Defensive linemanMario Williams (North Carolina State), Jason Berryman (Iowa State), Charlton Keith (Kansas), Wallace Gilberry (Alabama), Jeremy Clark (Alabama), Mark Anderson (Alabama)Keith, Jay Alford (Penn State), Brodrick Bunkley (Florida State), Melvin Oliver (LSU)LinebackerA. J. Hawk (Ohio State), Stephen Tulloch (North Carolina State), Abdul Hodge (Iowa)Hawk, Tulloch, Nelson Coleman (Tulsa)Defensive backRyan Glasper (Boston College), Brandon Flowers (Virginia Tech), Dwayne Slay (Texas Tech), Anthony Trucks (Oregon)Vernell Brown (Florida), Marcus King (Missouri), Jarrad Page (UCLA), Titus Brothers (Nebraska)PlacekickerJeremy Ito (Rutgers)Jamie Christensen (Alabama)PunterChris Hall (Florida State)Phil Brady (West Virginia)Kick or Punt ReturnerBrandon Breazell (UCLA), Willie Reid (Florida State)Reid

The demise of the Blue–Gray Football Classic two years ago and the cancellation of the Gridiron Classic due to lack of sponsorship this year gave rise to one new game this year (the Magnolia Gridiron All Star Classic), bringing to five the number of post season all star games, each of which is now designed primarily to showcase draft eligible players for NFL scouts, coaches, and general managers in order that players might be drafted into the professional ranks; each game, to that end, offers its own assortment of scouting sessions, open workouts, and individual practices to provide more opportunities during which NFL personnel might evaluate players. The games do serve ancillary purposes as well, though, as, for example, the Shrine game operates as a charitable fundraiser and the Hula Bowl sometimes provides the opportunity for Japanese players from the Kansai Football Association to test their mettle against NCAA stars.