Peach Bowl
- Formerly (2006–13):
- Chick-fil-A Bowl
- Related Topics:
- American football
- College Football Playoff
Peach Bowl, annual college football postseason bowl game played in Atlanta. Along with the Cotton, Fiesta, Orange, Rose, and Sugar bowls, the Peach Bowl is one of the host sites of the national semifinals of the College Football Playoff.
(Read Walter Camp’s 1903 Britannica essay on inventing American football.)
The first Peach Bowl was played in 1968 at the on-campus stadium of the Georgia Institute of Technology, where Louisiana State defeated Florida State 31–27. In 1971 the game moved to Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, home of the Atlanta Braves, where it was played until the opening of the Georgia Dome in 1992. That same year the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Southeastern Conference agreed to make the Peach Bowl an annual contest between teams from those two conferences, an arrangement that lasted until the advent of the College Football Playoff system and the elimination of conference tie-ins for the Peach Bowl in 2014.
A list of Peach Bowl results is provided in the table.
| season | result | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Part of College Football Playoff (CFP) from 2014–15. | ||||
| **CFP semifinal. | ||||
| 1968–69 | Louisiana State | 31 | Florida State | 27 |
| 1969–70 | West Virginia | 14 | South Carolina | 3 |
| 1970–71 | Arizona State | 48 | North Carolina | 26 |
| 1971–72 | Mississippi | 41 | Georgia Tech | 18 |
| 1972–73 | North Carolina State | 49 | West Virginia | 13 |
| 1973–74 | Georgia | 17 | Maryland | 16 |
| 1974–75 | Texas Tech | 6 | Vanderbilt | 6 |
| 1975–76 | West Virginia | 13 | North Carolina State | 10 |
| 1976–77 | Kentucky | 21 | North Carolina | 0 |
| 1977–78 | North Carolina State | 24 | Iowa State | 14 |
| 1978–79 | Purdue | 41 | Georgia Tech | 21 |
| 1979–80 | Baylor | 24 | Clemson | 18 |
| 1980–81 | Miami (Fla.) | 20 | Virginia Tech | 10 |
| 1981–82 | West Virginia | 26 | Florida | 6 |
| 1982–83 | Iowa | 28 | Tennessee | 22 |
| 1983–84 | Florida State | 28 | North Carolina | 3 |
| 1984–85 | Virginia | 27 | Purdue | 24 |
| 1985–86 | Army | 31 | Illinois | 29 |
| 1986–87 | Virginia Tech | 25 | North Carolina State | 24 |
| 1987–88 | Tennessee | 27 | Indiana | 22 |
| 1988–89 | North Carolina State | 28 | Iowa | 23 |
| 1989–90 | Syracuse | 19 | Georgia | 18 |
| 1990–91 | Auburn | 27 | Indiana | 23 |
| 1991–92 | East Carolina | 37 | North Carolina State | 34 |
| 1992–93 | North Carolina | 21 | Mississippi State | 17 |
| 1993–94 | Clemson | 14 | Kentucky | 13 |
| 1994–95 | North Carolina State | 28 | Mississippi State | 24 |
| 1995–96 | Virginia | 34 | Georgia | 27 |
| 1996–97 | Louisiana State | 10 | Clemson | 7 |
| 1997–98 | Auburn | 21 | Clemson | 17 |
| 1998–99 | Georgia | 35 | Virginia | 33 |
| 1999–2000 | Mississippi State | 17 | Clemson | 7 |
| 2000–01 | Louisiana State | 28 | Georgia Tech | 14 |
| 2001–02 | North Carolina | 16 | Auburn | 10 |
| 2002–03 | Maryland | 30 | Tennessee | 3 |
| 2003–04 | Clemson | 27 | Tennessee | 14 |
| 2004–05 | Miami (Fla.) | 27 | Florida | 10 |
| 2005–06 | Louisiana State | 40 | Miami (Fla.) | 3 |
| 2006–07 | Georgia | 31 | Virginia Tech | 24 |
| 2007–08 | Auburn | 23 | Clemson | 20 |
| 2008–09 | Louisiana State | 38 | Georgia Tech | 3 |
| 2009–10 | Virginia Tech | 37 | Tennessee | 14 |
| 2010–11 | Florida State | 26 | South Carolina | 17 |
| 2011–12 | Auburn | 43 | Virginia | 24 |
| 2012–13 | Clemson | 25 | Louisiana State | 24 |
| 2013–14 | Texas A&M | 52 | Duke | 48 |
| 2014–15 | Texas Christian | 42 | Mississippi | 3 |
| 2015–16 | Houston | 38 | Florida State | 24 |
| 2016–17** | Alabama | 24 | Washington | 7 |
| 2017–18 | Notre Dame | 21 | Louisiana State | 17 |
| 2018–19 | Florida | 41 | Michigan | 15 |
| 2019–20** | Louisiana State | 63 | Oklahoma | 28 |
| 2020–21 | Georgia | 24 | Cincinnati | 21 |
| 2021–22 | Michigan State | 31 | Pittsburgh | 21 |
| 2022–23** | Georgia | 42 | Ohio State | 41 |
| 2023–24 | Mississippi | 38 | Penn State | 25 |