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2008-09 College Football Bowl Schedule
Published by MoonDog on June 23, 2008
Earlier this year the NCAA Postseason Football Licensing Subcommittee has given the OK to two of the three bowls that were proposed for addition to the 2008-2009 bowl schedule.
The games that were approved were the Congressional Bowl, to be played in Washington, D.C., and the St. Petersburg Bowl, to be played at Tropicana Field in Tampa, FL with both games scheduled for December 20th, 2008.
The one bowl that was rejected was the Rocky Mountain Bowl, which would have been played in Salt Lake City, Utah on the campus of the University of Utah at Rice-Eccles Stadium.
The addition of these two bowl games brings the total number to 34 including all BCS bowl games and the BCS national championship game.
Some obvious math tells us 68 teams will get an opportunity to showcase their respective schools in a bowl game, most of which will have little meaning or impact on the landscape of college football.
But as a player, coach, student or alumni of any school getting a chance to appear in a bowl game – any bowl game – it’s a source of pride and more importantly, a source of much needed revenue.
Payouts have yet to be announced for the newest bowls but the other 27 non-BCS bowls had payouts of $72.006 million this past season. Each of the BCS bowls has a guaranteed payout of $17 million bringing the total of all bowl games to $162.006 million.
Eleven conferences, Notre Dame and one at-large team have tie-ins to all of the current bowls including the two newest bowl games. As you would expect, the bulk of those tie-ins are dominated by the six BCS conferences.
Excluding BCS bowl games, the SEC has the most definitive tie-ins of any conference, guaranteed of placing eight teams in bowl games during the 2008-09 season. The ACC has seven teams guaranteed slots, followed by the Big 10 and Big 12 with six slots and the Pac 10 and Big East with five slots each.
Depending on how teams fare at the end of the regular season, the Big East and Big 12 could each have an additional two teams playing in bowl games with the ACC and Pac 10 each having one.
Once the BCS games are factored in the SEC and ACC could potentially send 10 teams to bowl games this season. The Big East could have as many as nine while the Big 10, Big 12 and Pac 10 could send eight member teams to bowls.
To view a list of the 2008-09 bowls, including dates, times, locations and conference tie-ins, please click here.
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