..to 34, which brings the amount of teams to appear in the post season to 68. This means that nearly 60% of Div-1a teams now get a shot at the post-season. When will it end? I mean, I love CFB, but its becoming a complete joke. Pretty soon, they are going to HAVE to let sub .500 teams to play in these ridiculous bowls.
St. Petersburg, Washington will host bowl games in 2008
There will be two new NCAA postseason football games next season -- one in St. Petersburg, Fla., the other in Washington, D.C.
The St. Petersburg Bowl will be played between Dec. 20-23 at Tropicana Field, the home of the Tampa Bay Rays. It will match teams from the Big East and Conference USA. The Big East now has bowl berths for seven of its eight teams in 2008. Conference USA will have six bowl berths for its 12 schools.
"The St. Petersburg Bowl is another great bowl opportunity for the Big East," league commissioner Michael Tranghese said. "The game is played in a Big East market and already has generated great interest in the local community."
Tropicana Field has been home to big league baseball since 1998 and has hosted several major sporting events, including the NCAA Final Four in 1999.
The domed stadium also has served as a home for the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning and the Tampa Bay Storm of the Arena Football League, but is a newcomer to college football.
The NCAA also approved a "Congressional Bowl" in Washington, D.C. It will feature Navy against an ACC opponent.
A proposed game for Salt Lake City was turned down.
Last year there were 32 bowl games. There were 71 teams which had 6-6 records to qualify for a bowl game.
In two other bowl notes:
• The Cotton Bowl, which has been played on New Year's Day in recent years, is moving to Jan. 2 starting next year. It will also be played in the afternoon, rather than a 10 a.m. start. Next year's Cotton Bowl will be the last at its current location. The game will move to the Dallas Cowboys' new stadium in 2010.
• The Papajohns.com Bowl in Birmingham, Ala., announced that its matchup in 2008 will feature teams from the Big East and Southeastern Conference.
The NCAA Postseason Football Licensing Subcommittee also renewed licenses for the Allstate Sugar, AT&T Cotton, AutoZone Liberty, BCS National Championship, Bell Helicopter Armed Forces, Brut Sun, Capital One, Champs Sports, Chick-fil-A, Emerald, Fed Ex Orange, Gaylord Hotels Music City, GMAC, Roady's Humanitarian, Insight, International, Konica Minolta Gator, Meineke Car Care, Motor City, New Mexico, Outback, Pacific Life Holiday, Papajohns.com, PetroSun Independence, Pioneer Las Vegas, R+L Carriers New Orleans, Rose, San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia, Sheraton Hawaii, Texas, Tostitos Fiesta and Valero Alamo bowls.
The subcommittee, meeting in Weston, Fla., also reported about 1.6 million fans attended last season's bowl games, and about $222 million in revenue from those games was distributed to the participating teams and conferences.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3375625
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Now, here is the other side to this story:
College football: NCAA denies Rocky Mountain Bowl
By Lya Wodraska
The Salt Lake Tribune
The Salt Lake City group that had proposed a bowl game for Rice-Eccles Stadium was turned down by the NCAA Postseason Licensing Subcommittee on Wednesday.
Two other bowls, the Congressional Bowl in Washington D.C., and the St. Petersburg Bowl in St. Petersburg, Fla., were approved at meetings in Hollywood, Fla. Their creation increases the number of bowl games for the 2008-09 season to 34.
The Rocky Mountain Bowl, proposed for Salt Lake City that would pit a Mountain West Conference team against a Western Athletic Conference team was the only one not licensed.
The subcommittee based the total number of bowls on historical data regarding the typical number of bowl-eligible teams and the licensing criteria used each year to assess the qualifications of the bowl candidates.
"The subcommittee continues to be challenged to provide quality experiences for our student-athletes while balancing that with the number of bowl-eligible teams," said Richard Giannini, director of athletics at the University of Southern Mississippi and chair of the NCAA Postseason Football Licensing Subcommittee. "The subcommittee spent a great deal of time reviewing the historical data of bowl eligible teams and feels there is adequate opportunity to fill all bowl positions."
The subcommittee also reviewed bowl revenue and distributions from the
2007-08 season and announced the approximately $222 million in bowl revenue was distributed to participating teams and conferences.
An estimated 1.63 million fans attended the bowl games.
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So, they not only add two bowls, but they are BOTH on the East Coast. Imagine that.
:ermm:
St. Petersburg, Washington will host bowl games in 2008
There will be two new NCAA postseason football games next season -- one in St. Petersburg, Fla., the other in Washington, D.C.
The St. Petersburg Bowl will be played between Dec. 20-23 at Tropicana Field, the home of the Tampa Bay Rays. It will match teams from the Big East and Conference USA. The Big East now has bowl berths for seven of its eight teams in 2008. Conference USA will have six bowl berths for its 12 schools.
"The St. Petersburg Bowl is another great bowl opportunity for the Big East," league commissioner Michael Tranghese said. "The game is played in a Big East market and already has generated great interest in the local community."
Tropicana Field has been home to big league baseball since 1998 and has hosted several major sporting events, including the NCAA Final Four in 1999.
The domed stadium also has served as a home for the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning and the Tampa Bay Storm of the Arena Football League, but is a newcomer to college football.
The NCAA also approved a "Congressional Bowl" in Washington, D.C. It will feature Navy against an ACC opponent.
A proposed game for Salt Lake City was turned down.
Last year there were 32 bowl games. There were 71 teams which had 6-6 records to qualify for a bowl game.
In two other bowl notes:
• The Cotton Bowl, which has been played on New Year's Day in recent years, is moving to Jan. 2 starting next year. It will also be played in the afternoon, rather than a 10 a.m. start. Next year's Cotton Bowl will be the last at its current location. The game will move to the Dallas Cowboys' new stadium in 2010.
• The Papajohns.com Bowl in Birmingham, Ala., announced that its matchup in 2008 will feature teams from the Big East and Southeastern Conference.
The NCAA Postseason Football Licensing Subcommittee also renewed licenses for the Allstate Sugar, AT&T Cotton, AutoZone Liberty, BCS National Championship, Bell Helicopter Armed Forces, Brut Sun, Capital One, Champs Sports, Chick-fil-A, Emerald, Fed Ex Orange, Gaylord Hotels Music City, GMAC, Roady's Humanitarian, Insight, International, Konica Minolta Gator, Meineke Car Care, Motor City, New Mexico, Outback, Pacific Life Holiday, Papajohns.com, PetroSun Independence, Pioneer Las Vegas, R+L Carriers New Orleans, Rose, San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia, Sheraton Hawaii, Texas, Tostitos Fiesta and Valero Alamo bowls.
The subcommittee, meeting in Weston, Fla., also reported about 1.6 million fans attended last season's bowl games, and about $222 million in revenue from those games was distributed to the participating teams and conferences.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3375625
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Now, here is the other side to this story:
College football: NCAA denies Rocky Mountain Bowl
By Lya Wodraska
The Salt Lake Tribune
The Salt Lake City group that had proposed a bowl game for Rice-Eccles Stadium was turned down by the NCAA Postseason Licensing Subcommittee on Wednesday.
Two other bowls, the Congressional Bowl in Washington D.C., and the St. Petersburg Bowl in St. Petersburg, Fla., were approved at meetings in Hollywood, Fla. Their creation increases the number of bowl games for the 2008-09 season to 34.
The Rocky Mountain Bowl, proposed for Salt Lake City that would pit a Mountain West Conference team against a Western Athletic Conference team was the only one not licensed.
The subcommittee based the total number of bowls on historical data regarding the typical number of bowl-eligible teams and the licensing criteria used each year to assess the qualifications of the bowl candidates.
"The subcommittee continues to be challenged to provide quality experiences for our student-athletes while balancing that with the number of bowl-eligible teams," said Richard Giannini, director of athletics at the University of Southern Mississippi and chair of the NCAA Postseason Football Licensing Subcommittee. "The subcommittee spent a great deal of time reviewing the historical data of bowl eligible teams and feels there is adequate opportunity to fill all bowl positions."
The subcommittee also reviewed bowl revenue and distributions from the
2007-08 season and announced the approximately $222 million in bowl revenue was distributed to participating teams and conferences.
An estimated 1.63 million fans attended the bowl games.
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So, they not only add two bowls, but they are BOTH on the East Coast. Imagine that.
:ermm:
