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National title game at Rose Bowl caps 35-game bowl schedule

The Rose Bowl will host its 100th namesake event on Jan. 1, then the final BCS championship game five days later.
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By Chris Dufresne
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The new college football bowl schedule is out!

OK, it’s not as exciting as Steve Martin in “The Jerk” rejoicing the arrival of the new phone book, but it can help you make travel plans for this year’s holiday season.

The Football Bowl Assn. on Wednesday officially released the times and dates of the 35-game lineup. Bowl season kicks off Dec. 21 with the Gildan New Mexico Bowl and ends with the BCS title game on Jan. 6 at the Rose Bowl.

This is the 16th, and last, season of the BCS in advance of the new College Football Playoff Series coming in 2014. The Rose Bowl will host its traditional event on Jan. 1, the 100th-anniversary game celebration, and then the final BCS title game five days later.

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ESPN’s family of networks will broadcast 33 of the 35 games. The only non-ESPN bowls are the Sun (Dec. 31, CBS) and Cotton (Jan. 3, Fox).

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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