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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

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^CFP Denotes College Football Playoff semifinal game
UCF Claimed 2017 National Championship
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