2009–10 NCAA football bowl games

2009–10 NCAA football bowl games
2009–10 NCAA football bowl games
	Number of bowl games per state.
Season	2009
Number of bowls	34
All-star games	3
Bowl games	December 19, 2009 – ; February 6, 2010
National Championship	2010 Citi BCS National Championship
Location of Championship	Rose Bowl Stadium,; Template:City-state
Conference
Bowl record by conference
Conference	Bowls
	←2008–09; Bowl game; 2010–11→;

The 2009–10 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision College Football Post-Season, which will follow the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season, will contain 34 team-competitive bowl games, and three all-star games. The games will be played starting on December 19th, 2009 and will include the 2010 BCS National Championship Game in Pasadena, California to be played on January 7th at the Rose Bowl Stadium. The three all-star games will be the East-West Shrine Game on January 23rd, the Senior Bowl on January 30th and the Texas vs. The Nation Game, to be played February 6th.

The NCAA divided Division I schools into two divisions starting in 1978: The Football Bowl Subdivision (known as Division I-A from 1978–2005) does not have a playoff system, but instead stages Bowl Games, whose participants are chosen based on their end-of-season conference standings and positions in national rankings (compiled by polls and computers). The Football Championship Subdivision (known through this same period as Division I-AA) plays in a sixteen-team, single elimination tournament for a recognized national championship, with the notable exception of the Ivy League and the Southwestern Athletic Conference, which abstain from participation in this playoff. The Ivies choose to limit their football schedule to 10 games and have a long-standing policy against playing postseason football, whereas the SWAC opts for a longer, more easily scheduled regular season, and profitable rivalry games like the nationally televised Bayou Classic in the Louisiana Superdome and the SWAC championship game. Between 1991 and 1999, the Heritage Bowl matched top teams from the historically black colleges and universities in a Division I-AA bowl game.

Selection of the teams

NCAA by-laws state that a school with a record of 6–6 in regular season play is eligible only if conferences cannot fill out available positions for bowl games with teams possessing seven (or more) wins (excluding games played in Hawaiʻi and conference championship games in the ACC, Big 12, Conference USA, Mid-American Conference and the SEC). An example was in 2008 when the Big Ten, the Big 12 and SEC each had two teams selected for the Bowl Championship Series games – Ohio State and Penn State from the Big Ten, Texas and Oklahoma from the Big 12 and Alabama and Florida from the SEC. With each conference sending two teams to the BCS, these three conferences forfeited several bowl game slots due to a lack of teams with a winning record.

Fox ends BCS contract

Fox Sports will no longer broadcast the Bowl Championship Series following the conclusion of the Orange Bowl on January 5th; the network had carried the first three BCS National Championship stand-alone games. ABC will broadcast the this season's contest because of their separate agreement with the Pasadena Tournament of Roses, the organizers of the Rose Bowl Game and the hosts of the 2010 national championship. Beginning in 2011, ABC sister company ESPN will begin carrying all of the BCS bowls, in an agreement that will last through 2014. Fox has signed a long-term contract extension with the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic through 2014, with a new prime-time Friday night date starting in 2011.

Sponsorship and stadium changes

Pioneer is out as sponsor of the Las Vegas Bowl and Maaco becomes the new title sponsor, and has rebranded the game as the Maaco Bowl Las Vegas. In another change, the Motor City Bowl thanks to Little Caesars will now carry the name of the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl. Advocare will become the title sponsor of the Independence Bowl. In a stadium shift, the Cotton Bowl Classic moves from its self-named home for 73 years at the grounds of Fair Park to Jerry Jones's new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.

New bowls in 2010–11

Fair Park will be the site of a new bowl game, tentatively named the Dallas Football Classic on New Years Day 2011, with the Big Ten and Conference USA providing opponents, and Yankee Stadium will host a game that is now dubbed as the Yankee Bowl in December 2010, pitting teams from the Big East and Big 12. This contest would be the first bowl game in the Metropolitan New York area since the now defunct Garden State Bowl, and the first in New York City since the now defunct Gotham Bowl was played in the original House That Ruth Built. The NCAA Football Issues Committee must approve of these games in the spring of 2010 to make them official.

Bowl schedule

All dates and game times for the 34 2009–10 season bowl games were announced on April 30, 2009, and are subject to change. They received licenses from the NCAA Football Issues Committee.^[1]^[2]

Non BCS Contests.
Date	Game	Site	Time (US EST)	TV	Matchup
12/19^[3]	New Mexico Bowl	University Stadium University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM	2:30 PM	ESPN	Wyoming vs. Fresno State
12/19^[3]	St. Petersburg Bowl	Tropicana Field St. Petersburg, FL	8 PM	ESPN	Rutgers ^[4] vs. Central Florida
12/20^[5]	R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl	Louisiana Superdome New Orleans, LA	8 PM	ESPN	Sun Belt ^{[N 1]} vs. Southern Miss
12/22^[6]	Maaco Bowl Las Vegas	Sam Boyd Stadium University of Nevada, Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV	8 PM	ESPN	Oregon State vs BYU
12/23	SDCCU Poinsettia Bowl	Qualcomm Stadium San Diego, CA	8 PM	ESPN	MWC vs. Cal
12/24	Sheraton Hawaiʻi Bowl	Aloha Stadium Honolulu, HI	8 PM	ESPN	SMU vs. Nevada ^{[N 2]}
12/26^[7] ^[8]^[9]	Little Caesars Pizza Bowl	Ford Field Detroit, MI	1 PM	ESPN	Mid-American Conference #1,#2, or #3 vs. Big Ten #7 OR at-large^{[N 3]}
	Meineke Car Care Bowl	Bank of America Stadium Charlotte, NC	4:30 PM	ESPN	UNC vs. Pittsburgh
	Emerald Bowl	AT&T Park San Francisco, CA	8:30 PM	ESPN	Boston College vs. USC
12/27^[10]	Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl	LP Field Nashville, TN	8:15 PM	ESPN	Kentucky^[11] vs. ACC^[12]
12/28^[13]	Advocare V100 Independence Bowl	Independence Stadium Shreveport, LA	5 PM	ESPN2	Texas A&M vs. Georgia^[14]
12/29^[15]	EagleBank Bowl	RFK Stadium Washington, DC	4:30 PM	ESPN	Army/C-USA ^{[N 4]} vs. At-Large^{[N 5]}
12/29^[15]	Champs Sports Bowl	Citrus Bowl Orlando, FL	8 PM	ESPN	ACC #4 vs. Big Ten #4/5
12/30^[16]	Roady's Humanitarian Bowl	Bronco Stadium Boise State University Boise, ID	4:30 PM	ESPN	MWC vs. WAC
12/30^[16]	Pacific Life Holiday Bowl	Qualcomm Stadium San Diego, CA	8 PM	ESPN	Arizona vs. Nebraska
12/31^[17]	Bell Helicopters Armed Forces Bowl	Amon G. Carter Stadium Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX	12 noon	ESPN	Air Force vs. Houston^[18]
	Brut Sun Bowl	Sun Bowl Stadium University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, TX	2:00 PM	CBS	Stanford vs Oklahoma^[19]
	Texas Bowl	Reliant Stadium Houston, TX	3:30 PM	ESPN	Missouri^[20] vs. Navy^{[N 6]}
	Insight Bowl	Sun Devil Stadium Arizona State University Tempe, AZ	6:00 PM	NFL Network	Big Ten #6 vs. Iowa State^[21]
	Chick-fil-A Bowl	Georgia Dome Atlanta, GA	7:30 PM	ESPN	Virginia Tech^[22] vs. Tennessee^[23]
1/1^[24]	Outback Bowl	Raymond James Stadium Tampa, FL	11 AM	ESPN	Northwestern vs. Auburn^[25]
	Konica Minolta Gator Bowl	Jacksonville Municipal Stadium Jacksonville, FL	1 PM	CBS	Florida State vs. West Virginia
	Capital One Bowl	Citrus Bowl Orlando, FL	1 PM	ABC	Big Ten #2 vs. LSU^[26]
1/2	International Bowl	Rogers Centre Toronto, ON, CAN	Noon	ESPN 2	South Florida vs. MAC #3
	PapaJohns.com Bowl	Legion Field Birmingham, AL	2 PM	ESPN	UConn vs. South Carolina^[27]
	AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic	Cowboys Stadium Arlington, TX	2 PM	FOX	Oklahoma State vs. Ole Miss
	AutoZone Liberty Bowl	Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium Memphis, TN	5:30 PM	ESPN	East Carolina vs. Arkansas^[28]
	Valero Energy Alamo Bowl	Alamodome San Antonio, TX	9 PM	ESPN	Big Ten #4/5 vs. Texas Tech^[29]
1/6	GMAC Bowl	Ladd Peebles Stadium Mobile, AL	7:00 PM	ESPN	At Large^{[N 7]} vs. MAC
Bowl Championship Series 2010 Schedule
Date	Game	Site	Time (US EST)	TV	Matchup
1/1	Rose Bowl Game presented by citi	Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA	5 PM	ABC	Ohio State vs. Oregon
1/1	Allstate Sugar Bowl	Louisiana Superdome New Orleans, LA	8:30 PM	FOX	Florida vs. BCS At-Large
1/4	Tostitos Fiesta Bowl	University of Phoenix Stadium Glendale, AZ	8 PM	FOX	BCS At-Large vs. BCS At-Large
1/5	FedEx Orange Bowl	Dolphin Stadium Miami Gardens, FL	8 PM	FOX	Georgia Tech vs. BCS At-Large
1/7	2010 Citi BCS National Championship Game	Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA	8 PM	ABC	Alabama vs. TCU
Note: Big East Champion Cincinnati, assuming it is not one of the top two BCS teams, plays as one of the At-Large teams. The higher-ranked of Mountain West Champion TCU or WAC Champion Boise State in the final regular-season BCS rankings, assuming it is not one of the top two BCS teams, is guaranteed to play as one of the At-Large teams; the other remains eligible for a BCS at-large.

^ Troy finished their regular season with a perfect 8-0 conference record, earning the Sun Belt title and the conference's lone automatic bowl bid. However, there is speculation that the New Orleans Bowl will instead take Middle Tennessee State, another Sun Belt team that is guaranteed an at-large bid, to prevent a rematch of the previous year's bowl game.
^ Hawaiʻi played a 13-game schedule this season, and lost to Wisconsin on December 5 to finish the season at 6-7, rendering them ineligible for a bowl game. As a result, the berth has been passed to another WAC team.
^ Should the Big Ten have two bids into the BCS, the spot would be filled by an at-large team.
^ Army, currently 5–6, must defeat Navy in its final game on December 12 to be bowl-eligible. Conference USA has a contingency contract for this slot if Army fails to beat Navy. C-USA has five regular bowl slots and six eligible teams, but one of those teams, namely Marshall, is 6–6. Under NCAA rules, a 6–6 team cannot benefit from a contingency contract if any other FBS team not already committed to a bowl has 7 or more wins; however, there are enough at-large slots available that every 7-win team is guaranteed a bowl bid even if Army wins. Therefore the contingency would activate, and as the only 6-6 team in the conference, Marshall would be the team available. However it is possible that Marshall could already be taken by the Texas Bowl, another bowl that Conference USA has an agreement with, if the Big 12 has 2 teams in the BCS and Hawaii is not bowl-eligible.
^ The ACC has only seven bowl-eligible teams this season. This slot will most likely go to a MAC team. The MAC has three regular slots plus a contingency slot with this bowl if the ACC does not produce eight bowl-eligible teams, and all five of its bowl-eligible teams have at least 7 wins.
^ Navy won seven games to be bowl-eligible, as they are playing a 13-game schedule. They secured the bid on November 7 with a 23–21 win over Notre Dame.
^ This slot is now an at-large slot because the ACC only has seven bowl-eligible teams.

Post-BCS all-star games

Date	All-Star Game	Location	Time US EST	TV
1/23	East-West Shrine Game	Citrus Bowl Orlando, FL	3 PM	ESPN2
1/31	Under Armour Senior Bowl^[30]	Ladd-Peebles Stadium, Mobile, AL	4 PM	NFL Network
2/6	Texas vs. The Nation Game^[31]	Sun Bowl Stadium University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, TX	2 PM	CBS College Sports Network

References

http://www.starbulletin.com/news/breaking/78186747.html

External links

[Troy-6] Troy finished their regular season with a perfect 8-0 conference record, earning the Sun Belt title and the conference's lone automatic bowl bid. However, there is speculation that the New Orleans Bowl will instead take Middle Tennessee State, another Sun Belt team that is guaranteed an at-large bid, to prevent a rematch of the previous year's bowl game.

[Hawaiʻi-8] Hawaiʻi played a 13-game schedule this season, and lost to Wisconsin on December 5 to finish the season at 6-7, rendering them ineligible for a bowl game. As a result, the berth has been passed to another WAC team.

[Little_Caesar's_Pizza_Bowl_Big_Ten_#7-12] Should the Big Ten have two bids into the BCS, the spot would be filled by an at-large team.

[Army-19] Army, currently 5–6, must defeat Navy in its final game on December 12 to be bowl-eligible. Conference USA has a contingency contract for this slot if Army fails to beat Navy. C-USA has five regular bowl slots and six eligible teams, but one of those teams, namely Marshall, is 6–6. Under NCAA rules, a 6–6 team cannot benefit from a contingency contract if any other FBS team not already committed to a bowl has 7 or more wins; however, there are enough at-large slots available that every 7-win team is guaranteed a bowl bid even if Army wins. Therefore the contingency would activate, and as the only 6-6 team in the conference, Marshall would be the team available. However it is possible that Marshall could already be taken by the Texas Bowl, another bowl that Conference USA has an agreement with, if the Big 12 has 2 teams in the BCS and Hawaii is not bowl-eligible.

[Eagle_Bank_Bowl_MAC_ACC_#8-20] The ACC has only seven bowl-eligible teams this season. This slot will most likely go to a MAC team. The MAC has three regular slots plus a contingency slot with this bowl if the ACC does not produce eight bowl-eligible teams, and all five of its bowl-eligible teams have at least 7 wins.

[Navy-26] Navy won seven games to be bowl-eligible, as they are playing a 13-game schedule. They secured the bid on November 7 with a 23–21 win over Notre Dame.

[GMAC_Bowl_ACC_#9-36] This slot is now an at-large slot because the ACC only has seven bowl-eligible teams.

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v t e 2009–10 NCAA football bowl game season
New Mexico (Dec. 19) St. Petersburg (Dec. 19) New Orleans (Dec. 20) Maaco Las Vegas (Dec. 22) Poinsettia (Dec. 23) Hawaii (Dec. 24) Little Caesars Pizza (Dec. 26) Meineke Car Care (Dec. 26) Emerald (Dec. 26) Music City (Dec. 27) Independence (Dec. 28) EagleBank (Dec. 29) Champs Sports (Dec. 29) Humanitarian (Dec. 30) Holiday (Dec. 30) Armed Forces (Dec. 31) Sun (Dec. 31) Texas (Dec. 31) Insight (Dec. 31) Chick-fil-A (Dec. 31) Outback (Jan. 1) Gator (Jan. 1) Capital One (Jan. 1) International (Jan. 2) Cotton (Jan. 2) PapaJohns.com (Jan. 2) Liberty (Jan. 2) Alamo (Jan. 2) GMAC (Jan. 6)
Bowl Championship Series games: Rose (Jan. 1) Sugar (Jan. 1) Fiesta (Jan. 4) Orange (Jan. 5) BCS National Championship (Jan. 7)
All-Star Games: East–West Shrine Game (Jan. 23) Senior Bowl (Jan. 30) Texas vs. The Nation Game (Feb. 6)