Bowl Challenge Cup

The Bowl Challenge Cup is a competition among NCAA college football conferences in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly called Division I-A, based on win–loss records in the bowl games that take place annually during December and January. The winner is the conference that has the highest winning percentage, among conferences with a minimum of three teams appearing in bowl games.

The Challenge was created in 2002 by ESPN, who also occasionally refers to it as the "Bowl Cup Challenge" when promoting it. Originally sponsored by Cooper Tire, ESPN went several years without a sponsor; since the 2015–16 bowl season, Progressive has been the sponsor.

Participants

The ten Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) conferences that compete in the Bowl Challenge Cup are:

Power conferences

• Atlantic Coast Conference
• Big Ten Conference
• Big 12 Conference
• Southeastern Conference

Other conferences

• American Conference
• Conference USA
• Mid-American Conference
• Mountain West Conference
• Pac-12 Conference
• Sun Belt Conference

Since the 2024 season, the Pac-12 has lacked a sufficient number of teams to meet the minimum number of bowl games required for Bowl Challenge Cup honors.

Former conferences that competed in the Bowl Challenge Cup were:

• Big East Conference, which reorganized as the American Athletic Conference (now known as the American Conference) after the 2012 season
• Western Athletic Conference, which has not sponsored football in FBS since the 2012 season

Results

Italics designate a shared title (tie).

References

External links

• Bowl Challenge Cup trophy via Shutterstock