Two basketball schools playing a postseason football game on a baseball field. Yeah, that's a sports turducken for ya.:grin:
Updated via Seatgeek.com 38. Boca Raton Bowl, Toledo vs. Temple: $17 36t. Music City Bowl, Texas A&M vs. Louisville: $21 36t. Independence Bowl, VaTech vs Tulsa: $21 34t. Camellia Bowl, Ohio vs. Appalachian State: $24 34t. Idaho Potato Bowl, Akron vs Utah State: $24 32t. Peach Bowl, Florida State vs. Houston: $25 32t. Cactus Bowl, West Virginia vs. Arizona State: $25 31. Independence Bowl, Tulsa vs. Virginia Tech: $26 30. Sun Bowl, Washington State vs. Miami: $28 28t. Foster Farms Bowl, Nebraska vs UCLA: $33 28t. Texas Bowl, LSU vs. Texas Tech: $33 27. Pinstripe Bowl, Indiana vs. Duke: $35 26. Belk Bowl, Mississippi St. vs. N.C. State: $36 25. Bahamas Bowl, Western Michigan vs MTSU: $38 24. Poinsettia Bowl, Boise State vs. Northern Illinois: $43 23. Military Bowl, Navy vs. Pitt: $45 22. TaxSlayer Bowl, Georgia vs. Penn State: $47 21. Russell Athletic Bowl, UNC vs. Baylor: $51 20. Cure Bowl, San Jose State vs. Georgia State: $54 19. Heart of Dallas Bowl, Southern Miss vs. Washington: $55 17t. Armed Forces Bowl, Air Force vs. Cal: $62 17t. New Mexico Bowl, Arizona vs. New Mexico: $62 15t. Holiday Bowl, Wisconsin vs. USC: $69 15t. Cotton Bowl, Alabama vs. Michigan State: $69 14. Quick Lane, Central Michigan vs. Minnesota: $71 12t. New Orleans Bowl, Arkansas State vs. Louisiana Tech: $73 12t. Birmingham Bowl, Auburn vs. Memphis: $73 11. St. Petersburg Bowl, UConn vs. Marshall: $77 10. Alamo Bowl, TCU vs. Oregon: $78 9. Miami Beach Bowl, WKU vs. USF: $90 8. Outback Bowl, Tennessee vs. Northwestern: $93 7. Liberty Bowl, Arkansas vs. Kansas State: $94 6. Fiesta Bowl, Ohio State vs. Notre Dame: $113 5. Orange Bowl, Clemson vs. Oklahoma: $128 4. Sugar Bowl, Ole Miss vs. Oklahoma State: $143 3. Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl, Florida vs. Michigan: $180 2. Las Vegas Bowl, BYU vs. Utah: $214 1. Rose Bowl, Iowa vs. Stanford: $658
The fact that they are pretty regional universities without national fan bases undoubtedly has driven the price down considerably, but the Boca Raton Bowl is actually one of the best minor bowl games on the slate. Those are both teams that, at one point this season, harbored very real aspirations of making a New Year's Six bowl.
Vegas has had a very strong Mormon presence since the 50's. They started out with banking and then moved to casinos. I think I read that about 5% of the Vegas valley population identifies as Mormon.
Although it has seemed to become one of the most often-named bowls when pundits and fans make fun of how many bowls there are, the New Mexico Bowl (which takes place today) has actually become one of the better small bowl games. The local community seems to support that game, which goes a long way toward making even a small bowl game feel like an "event," and it has mostly had really entertaining games in its history. A sampling: 2008- Colorado State 40 - 35 Fresno State 2009- Wyoming 35 - 28 Fresno State (2 OT) 2012- Arizona 49 - 48 Nevada 2013- Colorado State 48 - 45 Washington State This one should be fun as well. Arizona is more talented than their record would lead you to believe and UNM being in the game means that the crowd should be relatively lively.
Happy Bowl season! <PRE>DATE TIME BOWL TEAMS LOCATION December 19th 11:00am ABC Celebration Alcorn State vs. North Carolina A&T Atlanta, GA | Georgia Dome December 19th 1:00pm ESPN New Mexico Arizona vs. New Mexico Albequerque, NM | University Stadium December 19th 2:30pm ABC Las Vegas BYU vs. (22)Utah Las Vegas, NV | Sam Boyd Stadium December 19th 4:30pm ESPN Camellia Ohio vs. Appalachian State Montgomery, AL | Cramton Bowl December 19th 6:00pm CBSSN Cure San Jose State vs. Georgia State Orlando, FL | Citrus Bowl December 19th 8:00pm ESPN New Orleans Arkansas State vs. Louisiana Tech New Orleans, LA | Mercedes-Benz Superdome</PRE>
Even though I made a case for the New Mexico Bowl in my prior posts, the Holy War Las Vegas Bowl is far and away the best game on the slate today. Because of the rivalry, it was going to be pretty good to begin with, but based on what I've seen in posts from various college football folks on Twitter, the two sides have been VERY chippy with one another in the lead-up this week.
One sided war. Redshirts all over the bluejackets. And as I type, another turnover for BYU, their 5th.
No kidding. Up 24-7 going into the 4th quarter and they just lost on a last-second field goal by Appalachian State. Scott Satterfield, the App. State head coach, is going to be in the mix for some bigger jobs come next year's coaching carousel. Quietly, he led them to an 11-2 record this season. We so often see teams struggle with the FCS-to-FBS transition, and they basically knocked it out of the park.
Pretty good one going on right now. Western Kentucky and USF are basically going back and forth throwing haymakers at this point.
