Among the non-playoff teams having the most to gain from a bowl  victory are Florida State and Oregon State.

This bowl season, there are a few teams that aren’t in the College Football Playoff that could use a victory.

The four teams vying for a position in the College Football Playoff—Michigan, Washington, Texas, and Alabama—will receive more attention as bowl season approaches. Nevertheless, only a small portion of the bowl season field consists of the playoff participants. Over the next four weeks, seventy-eight other schools will play in non-CFP bowls; those games are far from meaningless, even if a national championship is out of the question for the other teams in the pack.

Nearly every team in the bowl season roster confronts some kind of urgency as they get ready to hit the field, whether it is the desire to ring in the new year with some momentum, silence detractors, or just to pursue a program milestone.

final instance of this season. Of course, some people experience that emotion far more intensely than others, particularly those who believe they have something important to prove to the general public.

These are a some of the non-CFP teams that stand to gain the most by winning in the bowl season in 2023.

No. 6 Georgia vs. No. 5 Florida State in the Orange Bowl: Nothing can ever fully ease the pain and suffering that Florida State went through after it was the first unbeaten Power Five champion to miss out on the College Football Playoff field, finishing fifth in the final rankings. But as the Seminoles prepare to take on Georgia, the two-time defending national champion, in the Orange Bowl, they have the opportunity to make a big impression and quiet their harshest detractors.