The College Football Bowl Association has released the 2009-2010 college football bowl schedule, with 34 bowl games set to be played over a three-week period including the five Bowl Championship Series games.
The 34 bowl games approved by the NCAA Football Issues Committee earlier this year equals the same number of bowl games played during the 2008-2009 bowl season.
The college football bowl season begins on December 19, 2009 with the New Mexico Bowl and majicJack St. Petersburg Bowl and culminates with the BCS national championship on January 7, 2010 in Pasadena.
Thirteen conferences, Notre Dame, the U.S. Naval Academy and one at-large team have bowl tie-in arrangements to the 29 non-BCS affiliated bowl games.
The bulk of the bowl tie-ins are dominated by the six BCS conferences. Excluding BCS bowl games, the Southeastern Conference has the most bowl tie-ins, guaranteed of sending eight teams to bowl games during the 2009-2010 bowl season.
The Atlantic Coast Conference and the Big 12 Conference will each send seven teams to bowl games during the 2009-2010 bowl season, followed by the Big Ten with six guaranteed bowl berths and the Pac-10 and Big East with five each.
The non-BCS conference with the most bowl tie-ins is Conference USA, guaranteed of sending seven of its teams to bowl games.
Bowl payouts have yet to be announced, but based on last season’s amounts the 29 non-BCS bowl games will disburse a record $41.5 million to participating teams, an increase of $5.5 million from the 2008-2009 bowl season.
Each of the five BCS bowls has a guaranteed payout of $17 million, bringing the total payout of all bowl games to $126.5 million.
The BCS bowls will announce their pairings on December 6, 2009.
Once the BCS bowl pairings have been announced, the SEC could potentially send 10 teams to bowl games this season.
The ACC and Big 12 could send up to nine of its teams to bowl games, followed by the Big Ten with eight. The Pac-10 and Big East could send as many as seven of its teams to bowl games.
To view a list of the 2009-2010 bowl games, including locations, dates, times, conference tie-ins and payouts, click here.
You can go ahead and put USC and LSU in that national championship game.
The Trojans have the talent, no question. LSU over the Gators? Interesting. What about the Longhorns? We’re getting close!
This is clearly to keep Boise State and TCU showing up the BCS teams & system by limiting non BCS conference winnings to only $17,000,000.00 dollars. If They played Boise State & TCU in separate BCS bowl game the BCS could would have paid out two of the five BCS Bowl prize money that’s $34,000,000.00 dollars to two non BCS conference division schools. In addition if Boise State & TCU won out separate BCS bowls they could have held there own Bowl game after the BCS bowls ended which would have been beautiful. I mean isn’t that why they had to create the Fort Worth bowl (now Armed Forces bowl) in 2003 in the first place. Fort Worth bowl originally paired up Boise State & TCU after TCU was not invited to a bowl in 2003 because of a TCU season ending one loss. The BCS is making a mockery out of Boise State & TCU while protecting themselves from these two non BCS conference teams once again creating a bowl game after the BCS bowl season.
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