Post by elp525 on Aug 18, 2009 4:37:59 GMT -5
August 17, 2009
Announcement expected today on Champs Sports Bowl matching ACC opponent
By Mitch Vingle
Sports Editor
The Big East will have a new look in regard to its football bowl lineup.
The Charleston Gazette has learned the league will officially announce a new agreement with the Champs Sports Bowl today to select first after the Bowl Championship Series has taken its teams.
Also, while an agreement hasn't quite been cemented, the Big East is expected to announce a deal with the Sun Bowl soon.
The Champs deal, which also includes Big East bowl partner Notre Dame, is for a four-year stretch beginning in 2010-11 against an Atlantic Coast Conference opponent. Unlike previous league deals, Notre Dame will only be eligible to the Champs Sports Bowl once in four years. The Fighting Irish has been eligible twice over four years in recent Big East pacts.
The Champs Sports Bowl will replace a difficult-to-follow arrangement the Big East has with the Big 12, bowl-partner Notre Dame, the Gator and Sun bowls, as well as the Atlantic Coast Conference and Pac-10 Conference.
This season, however, the Gator agreement may be boiled down to this: The Gator must take either a Big East team or Notre Dame.
That game will snuff a 15-year relationship between the Big East and the Gator, which has been linked in recent reports to the Big Ten, as well as the Atlantic Coast Conference.
West Virginia has played in Jacksonville, Fla., four times in the Big East's run with the Gator. The Mountaineers last played there in 2007, when they defeated Georgia Tech by 38-35. WVU also played there in 1989 and '82. The team is 1-5 all-time in the Gator.
The Champs Sports Bowl, as well as the Capital One Bowl, is played in the 65,438-seat Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium on Bermuda grass. The bowl recently announced Champs Sports, a division of Foot Locker, Inc., had extended its sponsorship of the game through the 2013 college football season. ESPN will televise the game for the next four years.
The payout of the Champs Sports Bowl has been $2.25 million per team.
The game had been a matchup featuring teams from the Atlantic Coast and Big Ten conferences. This season, two teams from those leagues will play at 8 p.m. on Dec. 29. Last season, Florida State defeated Wisconsin by a 42-13 score in the bowl.
As the Big East bowl alignment stands for this season, the league champion, or possibly a second team, will play in a BCS bowl, either the national championship at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., the Fiesta, Sugar, Orange or the Rose Bowl itself.
After that, the Gator Bowl will take a Big East team or partner Notre Dame. The Atlantic Coast Conference will provide the opponent there.
The Meineke Car Care Bowl in Charlotte, N.C., is next in the Big East pecking order, followed by the International Bowl in Toronto, Canada, with the PapaJohns.com Bowl in Birmingham, Ala., and the St. Petersburg [Fla.] Bowl also on board.
With the new deal, and the expected one with the Sun, the Meineke Car Care Bowl is expected to have the fifth or sixth pick, followed the others.
Announcement expected today on Champs Sports Bowl matching ACC opponent
By Mitch Vingle
Sports Editor
The Big East will have a new look in regard to its football bowl lineup.
The Charleston Gazette has learned the league will officially announce a new agreement with the Champs Sports Bowl today to select first after the Bowl Championship Series has taken its teams.
Also, while an agreement hasn't quite been cemented, the Big East is expected to announce a deal with the Sun Bowl soon.
The Champs deal, which also includes Big East bowl partner Notre Dame, is for a four-year stretch beginning in 2010-11 against an Atlantic Coast Conference opponent. Unlike previous league deals, Notre Dame will only be eligible to the Champs Sports Bowl once in four years. The Fighting Irish has been eligible twice over four years in recent Big East pacts.
The Champs Sports Bowl will replace a difficult-to-follow arrangement the Big East has with the Big 12, bowl-partner Notre Dame, the Gator and Sun bowls, as well as the Atlantic Coast Conference and Pac-10 Conference.
This season, however, the Gator agreement may be boiled down to this: The Gator must take either a Big East team or Notre Dame.
That game will snuff a 15-year relationship between the Big East and the Gator, which has been linked in recent reports to the Big Ten, as well as the Atlantic Coast Conference.
West Virginia has played in Jacksonville, Fla., four times in the Big East's run with the Gator. The Mountaineers last played there in 2007, when they defeated Georgia Tech by 38-35. WVU also played there in 1989 and '82. The team is 1-5 all-time in the Gator.
The Champs Sports Bowl, as well as the Capital One Bowl, is played in the 65,438-seat Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium on Bermuda grass. The bowl recently announced Champs Sports, a division of Foot Locker, Inc., had extended its sponsorship of the game through the 2013 college football season. ESPN will televise the game for the next four years.
The payout of the Champs Sports Bowl has been $2.25 million per team.
The game had been a matchup featuring teams from the Atlantic Coast and Big Ten conferences. This season, two teams from those leagues will play at 8 p.m. on Dec. 29. Last season, Florida State defeated Wisconsin by a 42-13 score in the bowl.
As the Big East bowl alignment stands for this season, the league champion, or possibly a second team, will play in a BCS bowl, either the national championship at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., the Fiesta, Sugar, Orange or the Rose Bowl itself.
After that, the Gator Bowl will take a Big East team or partner Notre Dame. The Atlantic Coast Conference will provide the opponent there.
The Meineke Car Care Bowl in Charlotte, N.C., is next in the Big East pecking order, followed by the International Bowl in Toronto, Canada, with the PapaJohns.com Bowl in Birmingham, Ala., and the St. Petersburg [Fla.] Bowl also on board.
With the new deal, and the expected one with the Sun, the Meineke Car Care Bowl is expected to have the fifth or sixth pick, followed the others.
