2011 Military Bowl Game Notes The military schools have their own bowl-game available to them. The country’s capital is the location of the Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman, taking place in the shadow of the Pentagon. In this year’s version of the game, the U.S. Air Force Academy will be making its first […]
2011 Belk Bowl Game Notes The opponents in the 2011 Belk Bowl this season did not venture far from home. The game is being held in Charlotte, N.C. and will feature an in-state team in NC State, representing the ACC, taking on Big East co-champ Louisville, from neighboring Kentucky. This will be the first […]
2011 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl Primer Michigan will have one of it’s own in its bowl game this year. The Little Caesars Pizza Bowl, taking place at Ford Field in Detroit, will be a home away from home this year, as Western Michigan of the Mid-American Conference takes on Purdue of the Big Ten […]
2011 Independence Bowl Overview The Big 12 Conference and the ACC clash on Dec. 26 when Shreveport, Louisiana, serves as the location of the AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl, which features Missouri and North Carolina. This will mark the third time these two schools have ever met. Missouri won the first pair; racking up a 27-14 […]
2011 Hawaii Bowl Matchup The tradition of college football on the islands continues December 24th with the 10th Sheraton Hawaii Bow, featuring WAC runner-up Nevada taking on Conference USA champion Southern Miss. These teams have met just two times prior to this game, with Southern Miss winning both contests, but they haven’t played since 1998. […]
2011 Las Vegas Bowl Preview The Las Vegas Bowl takes a bit of a gamble this year as it pits a top-10 team, Boise State, against a team that managed just a.500 record in the regular season, Arizona State. Arizona State won the only previous meeting, 49-7 back in 1996, however, that year was Boise’s […]
2011 Poinsettia Bowl Preview The first of two bowl games in San Diego will be held December 21 when Mountain West champion TCU takes on WAC champ Louisiana Tech in the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl. This is the first time that these two teams have ever met on a football field. The […]
2012 Orange Bowl Game Notes This season’s Orange Bowl pits Clemson, ACC champions, against Big East champions West Virginia. While these conferences are quite close (geographically speaking), these two squads haven’t met on the football field in over twenty years. The last time these two teams met was in the Gator Bowl following the 1989 […]
The 2011-12 college football bowl season starts in full force December 17, with Albuquerque, N.M., being the venue for this celebration with the Gildan New Mexico Bowl. This game features a pair of eight-win schools Temple from the MAC and Wyoming from the Mountain West. These two squads have faced each other just once before […]
The notorious blue turf in Boise, Idaho has not only been home to a BCS-busting Boise State football squad, but it has also been the venue of one of the furthest north college bowl contests in recent seasons. This year, the second game in the 35-game postseason schedule will happen on the blue turf December […]