
The Peach Bowl is an annual college football bowl game played in Atlanta, Georgia, since December 1968. Since 1997, it has been sponsored by Chick-fil-A and is officially known as the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl. From 2006 to 2013, it was officially referred to as simply the Chick-fil-A Bowl. The winner of the bowl game is awarded the George P. Crumbley Trophy, named after the game's founder George Crumbley.
The first three Peach Bowls were played at Grant Field on the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta. Between 1971 and 1992, Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium hosted the game. Between 1993 and 2016, the Georgia Dome played host. The bowl then moved to Mercedes-Benz Stadium starting in 2017. Since the 2014 season, the Peach Bowl has been part of the New Year's Six, featuring College Football Playoff matchups with the 2016, 2019, and 2022 games hosting a national semifinal.
With the expansion of the College Football Playoff to 12 teams in 2024, the Peach Bowl will become an annual feature of that playoff, along with the other New Year's Six bowls.
Game results[]
Team rankings entering games for which the Peach Bowl was designated a CFP semifinal are taken from CFP rankings. Otherwise, rankings are taken from the AP Poll (inaugurated in 1936), before each game was played. Italics denote a tie game.
Date played | Bowl name | Winning team |
Losing team |
Att. | Venue | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
December 30, 1968 | Peach Bowl | LSU | 31 | 19 Florida State | 27 | 35,545 | Grant Field |
December 30, 1969 | Peach Bowl | 19 West Virginia | 14 | South Carolina | 3 | 48,452 | |
December 30, 1970 | Peach Bowl | 8 Arizona State | 48 | North Carolina | 26 | 52,126 | |
December 30, 1971 | Peach Bowl | 17 Ole Miss | 41 | Georgia Tech | 18 | 36,771 | Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium |
December 29, 1972 | Peach Bowl | NC State | 49 | 18 West Virginia | 13 | 52,671 | |
December 28, 1973 | Peach Bowl | Georgia | 17 | 18 Maryland | 16 | 38,107 | |
December 28, 1974 | Peach Bowl | Texas Tech | 6 | Vanderbilt | 6 | 31,695 | |
December 31, 1975 | Peach Bowl | West Virginia | 13 | NC State | 10 | 45,134 | |
December 31, 1976 | Peach Bowl | Kentucky | 21 | 19 North Carolina | 0 | 54,132 | |
December 31, 1977 | Peach Bowl | NC State | 24 | Iowa State | 14 | 36,733 | |
December 25, 1978 | Peach Bowl | 17 Purdue | 41 | Georgia Tech | 21 | 20,277 | |
December 31, 1979 | Peach Bowl | 19 Baylor | 24 | 18 Clemson | 18 | 57,371 | |
January 2, 1981 | Peach Bowl | 20 Miami (Florida) | 20 | Virginia Tech | 10 | 45,384 | |
December 31, 1981 | Peach Bowl | West Virginia | 26 | Florida | 6 | 37,582 | |
December 31, 1982 | Peach Bowl | Iowa | 28 | Tennessee | 22 | 50,134 | |
December 30, 1983 | Peach Bowl | Florida State | 28 | North Carolina | 3 | 25,648 | |
December 31, 1984 | Peach Bowl | Virginia | 27 | Purdue | 24 | 41,107 | |
December 31, 1985 | Peach Bowl | Army | 31 | Illinois | 29 | 29,857 | |
December 31, 1986 | Peach Bowl | Virginia Tech | 25 | 18 NC State | 24 | 53,668 | |
January 2, 1988 | Peach Bowl | 17 Tennessee | 27 | Indiana | 22 | 58,737 | |
December 31, 1988 | Peach Bowl | NC State | 28 | Iowa | 23 | 44,635 | |
December 30, 1989 | Peach Bowl | Syracuse | 19 | Georgia | 18 | 44,991 | |
December 29, 1990 | Peach Bowl | Auburn | 27 | Indiana | 23 | 38,912 | |
January 1, 1992 | Peach Bowl | 12 East Carolina | 37 | 21 NC State | 34 | 59,322 | |
January 2, 1993 | Peach Bowl | 19 North Carolina | 21 | 24 Mississippi State | 17 | 69,125 | Georgia Dome |
December 31, 1993 | Peach Bowl | 24 Clemson | 14 | Kentucky | 13 | 63,416 | |
January 1, 1995 | Peach Bowl | 23 NC State | 28 | 16 Mississippi State | 24 | 64,902 | |
December 30, 1995 | Peach Bowl | 18 Virginia | 34 | Georgia | 27 | 70,825 | |
December 28, 1996 | Peach Bowl | 17 LSU | 10 | Clemson | 7 | 63,622 | |
January 2, 1998 | Peach Bowl | 13 Auburn | 21 | Clemson | 17 | 71,212 | |
December 31, 1998 | Peach Bowl | 19 Georgia | 35 | 13 Virginia | 33 | 72,876 | |
December 30, 1999 | Peach Bowl | 15 Mississippi State | 17 | Clemson | 7 | 73,315 | |
December 29, 2000 | Peach Bowl | LSU | 28 | 15 Georgia Tech | 14 | 73,614 | |
December 31, 2001 | Peach Bowl | North Carolina | 16 | Auburn | 10 | 71,827 | |
December 31, 2002 | Peach Bowl | 20 Maryland | 30 | Tennessee | 3 | 68,330 | |
January 2, 2004 | Peach Bowl | Clemson | 27 | 6 Tennessee | 14 | 75,125 | |
December 31, 2004 | Peach Bowl | 14 Miami (Florida) | 27 | 20 Florida | 10 | 69,322 | |
December 30, 2005 | Peach Bowl | 10 LSU | 40 | 9 Miami (Florida) | 3 | 65,620 | |
December 30, 2006 | Chick-fil-A Bowl | Georgia | 31 | 14 Virginia Tech | 24 | 75,406 | |
December 31, 2007 | Chick-fil-A Bowl | 22 Auburn | 23 | 15 Clemson | 20 | 74,413 | |
December 31, 2008 | Chick-fil-A Bowl | LSU | 38 | 14 Georgia Tech | 3 | 71,423 | |
December 31, 2009 | Chick-fil-A Bowl | 12 Virginia Tech | 37 | Tennessee | 14 | 73,777 | |
December 31, 2010 | Chick-fil-A Bowl | 23 Florida State | 26 | 19 South Carolina | 17 | 72,217 | |
December 31, 2011 | Chick-fil-A Bowl | Auburn | 43 | Virginia | 24 | 72,919 | |
December 31, 2012 | Chick-fil-A Bowl | 14 Clemson | 25 | 9 LSU | 24 | 68,027 | |
December 31, 2013 | Chick-fil-A Bowl | 20 Texas A&M | 52 | 22 Duke | 48 | 67,946 | |
December 31, 2014 | Peach Bowl | 6 TCU | 42 | 9 Ole Miss | 3 | 65,706 | |
December 31, 2015 | Peach Bowl | 14 Houston | 38 | 9 Florida State | 24 | 71,007 | |
December 31, 2016CFP | Peach Bowl | 1 Alabama | 24 | 4 Washington | 7 | 75,996 | |
January 1, 2018 † | Peach Bowl | 10 UCF | 34 | 7 Auburn | 27 | 71,109 | Mercedes-Benz Stadium |
December 29, 2018 | Peach Bowl | 10 Florida | 41 | 8 Michigan | 15 | 74,006 | |
December 28, 2019CFP | Peach Bowl | 1 LSU | 63 | 4 Oklahoma | 28 | 78,347 | |
January 1, 2021 | Peach Bowl | 11 Georgia | 24 | 6 Cincinnati | 21 | 15,301 | |
December 30, 2021 | Peach Bowl | 11 Michigan State | 31 | 13 Pittsburgh | 21 | 41,230 | |
December 31, 2022CFP | Peach Bowl | 1 Georgia | 42 | 4 Ohio State | 41 | 79,330 | |
December 30, 2023 | Peach Bowl | 11 Ole Miss | 38 | 10 Penn State | 25 | 71,230 | |
January 1, 2025CFP | Peach Bowl | 5 Texas | 37 | 4 Arizona State | 31 | 71,105 |
Source:
- ^CFP Denotes College Football Playoff semifinal game
- † UCF Claimed 2017 National Championship