The 2000–01 NCAA football bowl games concluded the

2000 NCAA Division I-A football season The 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the Oklahoma Sooners beating the defending national champion Florida State Seminoles to claim the Sooners' seventh national championship and their thirty-seventh conference championship, the ...

. In the third year of the

Bowl Championship Series The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) was a college football post-season selection system that created four or five bowl game match-ups involving eight or ten of the top ranked teams in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of America ...

(BCS) era,

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defeated

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in the

2001 Orange Bowl The 2001 Orange Bowl, designated as the BCS National Championship Game, was a college football bowl game played to determine a College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS, national champion in the National Collegiate Athletic A ...

, designated as the

BCS National Championship Game The BCS National Championship Game was a postseason college football bowl game, used to determine a national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), first played in the 1998 college football season as one of four des ...

for the 2000 season. A total of 25 bowl games were played between December 20, 2000, and January 3, 2001, by 50

bowl-eligible Bowl eligibility in college football at the NCAA Division I FBS level is the standard through which teams become available for selection to participate in postseason bowl games. When a team achieves this state, it is described as "bowl-eligible". ...

teams. Two short-lived bowl games were established for the 2000–01 season: the galleryfurniture.com Bowl (dissolved after its 2005 iteration as the Houston Bowl), and the

Silicon Valley Football Classic The Silicon Valley Football Classic, sometimes referred to as the Silicon Valley Bowl or Silicon Valley Classic, was an NCAA-certified Division I-A post-season college football bowl game that was played at Spartan Stadium on the South Campus of ...

(dissolved after its 2004 iteration).

Non-BCS bowls

BCS bowls

Each of the games in the following table was televised by

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Notes

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