NCAA Committee Approves 34 Football Bowl Games

[redlegsfan21]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -The NCAA has approved applications for 34 football bowl games for 2008, including 32 existing bowls and two new games in Washington, D.C., and St. Petersburg, Fla.
The NCAA Postseason Football Licensing Subcommittee on Wednesday also turned down a request for a proposed Rocky Mountain Bowl in Salt Lake City.

The new bowl games for next season will be the Congressional Bowl in the nation's capital and the St. Petersburg Bowl.

Licenses were renewed 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.myway.com/news/04302008/v4659.html

[CCN]

How many Division 1 (or whatever it is called now) football schools are there? Doesn't this account for more than half?

The MAC must be thrilled.

[redlegsfan21]

There are 119 teams + Western Kentucky. So 34 Games x 2 Teams = 68 teams. 68/120=57%

[CCN]

There are 119 teams + Western Kentucky. So 34 Games x 2 Teams = 68 teams. 68/120=57%

Wow.

You follow the colleges fairly closely. Do you think more and more smaller schools will be making the move up the next few years, seeing the success of schools like South Florida and schools like Appalchian State beating Michigan?

Think Wright State will ever get a team? ;)

[redlegsfan21]

Wow.

You follow the colleges fairly closely. Do you think more and more smaller schools will be making the move up the next few years, seeing the success of schools like South Florida and schools like Appalchian State beating Michigan?

Think Wright State will ever get a team? ;)

Well, the University of South Alabama is coming to the FBS in 2009 with the best anagram ever, USA. I would find it funny if Wright State got a football team because then some of my friends would have to get rid of those "Undefeated Since" t-shirts.

My personal opinion is that if more teams come to the FBS, the BCS Bowl System will disappear because the competitiveness of college football will rise and more non-BCS schools will prove themselves better than BCS Bowl teams. But I believe that the rate of schools entering the FBS will be slow concidering how long it takes. It takes Western Kentucky two years of transition period to go from FCS to FBS. It will take South Alabama four years since the program is starting from scratch.

It is hard not to follow college football when you look out your window and see a stadium.

[redlegsfan21]

This is the view of Nippert Stadium from where I currently live.
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[CCN]

Well, the University of South Alabama is coming to the FBS in 2009 with the best anagram ever, USA. I would find it funny if Wright State got a football team because then some of my friends would have to get rid of those "Undefeated Since" t-shirts.

My personal opinion is that if more teams come to the FBS, the BCS Bowl System will disappear because the competitiveness of college football will rise and more non-BCS schools will prove themselves better than BCS Bowl teams. But I believe that the rate of schools entering the FBS will be slow concidering how long it takes. It takes Western Kentucky two years of transition period to go from FCS to FBS. It will take South Alabama four years since the program is starting from scratch.

It is hard not to follow college football when you look out your window and see a stadium.

When I was the news editor of the Wright State paper about a dozen or so years ago, we heard a lot of talk about it. I even served on a combined student and faculty committee that looked into NCAA accreditation for the school, and there was a bit of talk about where that could lead, including football. None of it from anyone of actual import, mind you.

Very cool pic and view.