The 2012–13 NCAA football bowl games is a series of college football bowl games. They will conclude the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season, and include 35 team-competitive games and two all-star games. The games began on Saturday December 15, 2012 and, aside from the all-star games, concluded with the 2013 BCS National Championship Game in Miami Gardens, Florida that was played on January 7, 2013.