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    Bowl Game Fun

    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

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    Re: Bowl Game Fun

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

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    Re: Bowl Game Fun

    OKC needs a Bowl Game.

    The Mathis Brothers Furniture Gerbil Bowl to be played at Taft Stadium.
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    Holy cow! the Cotton and Orange Bowls are moved to New Year's Eve?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flagstaffsooner View Post
    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!

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    Quote Originally Posted by swardboy View Post
    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.

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    Re: Bowl Game Fun

    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jacie View Post
    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.

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    Re: Bowl Game Fun

    Can anyone explain how this happened?

    The Battlefrog Fiesta Bowl ! ! !

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jacie View Post
    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.......

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



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    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."

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