Bowl Game Fun

[Jacie]

Games Played Outside of the Continental U.S.:

2 of them and on the same day

Thursday, Dec. 24

Popeyes Bahamas Bowl
Middle Tennessee vs. MAC Thomas Robinson Stadium
Nassau, Bahamas Noon / ESPN

Hawai'i Bowl
American vs. MWC or BYU Aloha Stadium
Honolulu, HI 8:00pm / ESPN

Bowl with the Shortest Name:

Wednesday, Dec. 30

Belk Bowl
SEC vs. ACC/Notre Dame Bank of America Stadium
Charlotte, NC 3:30pm / ESPN

Bowl with Some Kind of Plant in the Name:

Saturday, Dec. 19

Raycom Media Camellia Bowl
MAC vs. Sun Belt Cramton Bowl
Montgomery, AL 5:30pm / ESPN

Tuesday, Dec. 22

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
MAC vs. MWC Albertson's Stadium
Boise, ID 3:30pm / ESPN

Wednesday, Dec. 23

San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl
MWC vs. MAC Qualcomm Stadium
San Diego, CA 4:30pm / ESPN

Thursday, Dec. 31

Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl
At-Large vs. At-Large Georgia Dome
Atlanta, GA Noon / ESPN

Goodyear Cotton Bowl
Playoff Semifinal Game AT&T Stadium
Arlington, TX 4 or 8pm / ESPN

Capital One Orange Bowl
Playoff Semifinal Game Sun Life Stadium
Miami Gardens, FL 4 or 8pm / ESPN

Friday, Jan. 1

Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl
Big Ten vs. SEC Orlando Citrus Bowl
Orlando, FL 1:00pm / ABC

Rose Bowl Game
Big Ten vs. Pac-12 Rose Bowl
Pasadena, CA 5:00pm / ESPN

Allstate Sugar Bowl
Big 12 vs. SEC Mercedes-Benz Superdome
New Orleans, LA 8:30pm / ESPN

Saturday, Jan. 2

Motel 6 Cactus Bowl
Big 12 vs. Pac-12 Chase Field
Phoenix, AZ 10:15pm / ESPN

First Time Bowls:

Saturday, Dec. 19

AutoNation Cure Bowl
American vs. Sun Belt Citrus Bowl Stadium
Orlando, FL 7:00pm / CBSSN

Tuesday, Dec. 29

Nova Home Loans Arizona Bowl
C-USA vs. MWC Arizona Stadium
Tucson, AZ 7:30pm / ASN

[SoonerMarkVA]

Holy crap, bowl names have almost become as embarrassing as the Poke paddle section.

[Flagstaffsooner]

OKC needs a Bowl Game.

The Mathis Brothers Furniture Gerbil Bowl to be played at Taft Stadium.

[swardboy]

Holy cow! the Cotton and Orange Bowls are moved to New Year's Eve?

[SoonerMarkVA]

OKC needs a Bowl Game.

The Mathis Brothers Furniture Gerbil Bowl to be played at Taft Stadium.

And the great part of that is, it wouldn't even be the worst bowl name!

[SoonerMarkVA]

Holy cow! the Cotton and Orange Bowls are moved to New Year's Eve?

Ew. I hadn't noticed that. Gah, that sucks. Were the semis played on NYE last year, too? I guess I tuned out with how horrible our season ended and no XII representative.

[Jacie]

More fun.

Forty bowl games require eighty teams to play butn the required 6-win mark has been reached by only seventy-five teams, so far, thus raising the issue of allowing some teams with a 5-7 record play a bowl game.

Of those teams:

Missouri, with a retired coach and no replacement named as of this post, has chosen to preemptively remove their team from consideration.

Over at Nebraska, the AD has decided to vacate a provision in the coaches' contracts that would give them a bonus if they make it to a bowl game.

This seems assured since the NCAA decided the criteria for determining which 5-7 teams get invited to post season play will be based on their Academic Progress Rate, and the huskers are at the top of the list.

Down at Austin, sa*et's Charlie Strong, currently 5-6, does not want to field questions about accepting a 5-7 bid since such talk could distract his team from preparing for their final game with Baylor.

Kansas State is in the same situation and is also in position to go bowling should they finish at 5-7. Bill Snyder said he would let the players decide on Sunday.

San Jose State, next in line on the APR scale, has indicated they would accept a bid.

No word yet from other teams that would qualify, Minnesota, Illinois or Rice.

[SoonerMarkVA]

More fun.

Forty bowl games require eighty teams to play butn the required 6-win mark has been reached by only seventy-five teams, so far, thus raising the issue of allowing some teams with a 5-7 record play a bowl game.

Of those teams:

Missouri, with a retired coach and no replacement named as of this post, has chosen to preemptively remove their team from consideration.

Over at Nebraska, the AD has decided to vacate a provision in the coaches' contracts that would give them a bonus if they make it to a bowl game.

This seems assured since the NCAA decided the criteria for determining which 5-7 teams get invited to post season play will be based on their Academic Progress Rate, and the huskers are at the top of the list.

Down at Austin, sa*et's Charlie Strong, currently 5-6, does not want to field questions about accepting a 5-7 bid since such talk could distract his team from preparing for their final game with Baylor.

Kansas State is in the same situation and is also in position to go bowling should they finish at 5-7. Bill Snyder said he would let the players decide on Sunday.

San Jose State, next in line on the APR scale, has indicated they would accept a bid.

No word yet from other teams that would qualify, Minnesota, Illinois or Rice.

Say whaaa? whorn has 4 wins, sitting at 4-7, with virtually zero chance of winning Saturday. So there will be no entertaining 5-win bowls for Strong, whether he wants to or not.

[Jacie]

Can anyone explain how this happened?

The Battlefrog Fiesta Bowl ! ! !

[rock on sooner]

Can anyone explain how this happened?

The Battlefrog Fiesta Bowl ! ! !

Just a guess on my part but Tostitos dint want to spend more $$$ on
also-ran teams and Battlefrog (does outdoor type events) dint mind
doing that and coughed up title sponsor type money.......

[Mazeppa]

I would go to that Popeyes Bowl if I had the money, don't care who was playing in it.


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[BigTip]

There was an article about the bowls in the Austin American Statesman today.
The Pinstripe Bowl is being played in Yankee Stadium between Indiana and Duke.

"So two basketball schools are playing a football game in a baseball stadium."