Cotton Bowl Goes Primetime
by srr50 on Sep 1, 2009 11:46 PM CDT
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PrintFox lost the BCS to ESPN, but they will hold on to at least one college contest, as the network has renewed its contract with the Cotton Bowl through 2014.
The game has a new home, Dallas Cowboys Stadium, and begining in 2011 it will move from an early morning kickoff to a primetime slot.
The game will be played between Jan 4-6 from 2001 through 2014, no doubt avoiding any day that the BCS is playing.
The combination of moving to Jerry's playhouse and getting a shot at primetime gives the Cotton Bowl hope of moving up to the BCS should there ever be an expansion to a plus 1 format or a playoff.
The Alamo Bowl recently increased its marketability by raising its payout to $3 million for each team, moving to a post Jan 1 play date, and dumping the Big 10 for a four-year agreement with the Pac 10 to send its #2 team to San Antonio to play a Big 12 representative.
Suddenly the state of Texas is again a major player in the bowl selection process.
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They should rename it the Jerry Bowl and the trophy should be a bust of Jerry’s plastic surgeon mug.
by PrimeTime on Sep 2, 2009 12:15 AM CDT reply actions
Another bowl moving from New Year’s Day. What’s left now; just the Rose Bowl? Pretty soon we’ll just have some shitty NBA game to watch.
by slhorn on Sep 2, 2009 8:16 AM CDT reply actions
I still the feel the ghost of the horror of the hangover I had for the 10 am kick off of Ricky’s last game in the Cotton Bowl after driving from the New Year’s Eve celebration on the Bolivar Peninsula to Hobby to catch a plane to Love, a taxi straight to the Cotton Bowl, watching the game from the worst seats in the history of man (Row 2 middle of the endzone), and a taxi straight back to Love after the game. I would rather cut my own foot off then spend any more time in Dallas than necessary.
Of course I’d rather cut my own dick off than miss Ricky’s last game
by The General on Sep 2, 2009 3:11 PM CDT reply actions
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