The Definitive 2023–24 NCAA Bowl Game Guide

A truly objective look at simulating every FBS bowl game

Welcome to this year’s bias-free NCAA FBS football Bowl Game review. Throughout the season, each team’s performance metrics were tracked by objective formulas (No inclusion of pre-season ranks, opinion polls, scouting grades, or any other human-fabricated numbers) and ranked only by what has happened on the field. For more about tracking performance objectively and the terminology referenced here, please refer to the season kickoff. Or check out how the season progressed with these quick, simple links.

Bowl season is about to kick off! These might not be the bowl games everybody wanted, but they’re the games we’ve got. I’ve already critiqued the CFP’s failure to produce a playoff field of the 4 strongest teams, which comes of little surprise considering their bias as actively employed members of participating schools and conferences. The BCS which preceded them was an attempt at objectivity, but had the same taint of junk data that most media outlets continue to push out to this day.

That’s where objectivity comes in. PASS (Performance against strength of schedule) was developed as an answer to what a team’s resume might look like with human-fabricated numbers removed from the equation. The PASS Top 25 has consistently…