3 new bowls in 2005??

[Chip]

NCAA recertifies 28 bowl games

INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA recertified 28 bowl games Thursday, including the Hawaii Bowl, and will consider applications from three more that could be added following the 2005 season.

Two bowl games from last season will have new names. The Diamond Walnut San Francisco Bowl will now be called the Emerald Bowl, while the Humanitarian Bowl has been renamed the MPC Computers Bowl.

The Hawaii Bowl will be played at Aloha Stadium this year on Friday, Dec. 24, Christmas Eve.

The NCAA requires bowl games to maintain an average attendance of 25,000 or 70 percent of the seating capacity to retain its certification.

Four bowl games -- Las Vegas, New Orleans, Emerald and Silicon Valley -- were certified with concern expressed by the subcommittee regarding the required attendance.

Two games -- the EV1.net Houston Bowl and the Silicon Valley Football Classic -- were certified with conditions. Those bowl officials must submit letters of credit by Sept. 1 because they missed the deadline for the 2003-04 bowl season.

The Football Certification Subcommittee also heard presentations from representatives of Seattle, Denver and South Florida. Any bowls submitting applications for play in 2005-06 will receive notification for possible certification at next year's meeting of the subcommittee.

[bulls96go]

South Florida?  

anyone have details?

will this be the next big east bowl?

[E.T.]

Is there a bowl at Pro Player Stadium ?

[Chip]

The only bowl in the Miami area in the Orange Bowl played at Pro Player.

[Cubanbull]

Thats surprising i havent heard any rumors about another bowl downhere? Could it be someone in St Pete and they screwed up on the location?

[bulls96go]

Thats surprising i havent heard any rumors about another bowl downhere? Could it be someone in St Pete and they screwed up on the location?

would not be the first time

[bullwark]

The Football Certification Subcommittee also heard presentations from representatives of Seattle, Denver and South Florida.

  Hhhhmmmm, very interesting, a bowl in St. Pete at the Dome?

[smazza]

56 teams get to a bowl

that is alot of teams making coaches look very good

no wonder why coaches don't want  a playoff.

they got to a bowl game they think they are a success

hahahahaha

[owl]

This new bowl in Miami has been rumored for some time now to be closely tied in to FIU and FAU's move to 1A and membership with the Sun Belt for football.  Supposedly, this new bowl would provide the Sun Belt Conference with their second bowl tie in (New Orleans Bowl is the other).

FIU's AD Rick Mello and Keith Tribble, CEO of the Orange Bowl Committee (OBC) and a member of the FIU Board of Directors have both supposedly been involved in the discussions.  Tribble is also Chairman of the Football Bowl Association (FBA) the body in charge of certifying new bowls and recertifying the existing bowl games annually.

Keep in mind to that there were earlier rumors that this bowl (as well as a possible new bowl in Atlanta) would be tied in with the new ACC during Miami and Virginia Techs arrival to the conference.

I am sure that the new ACC will be a major player with all three of the proposed new bowls.  

[bulls96go]

don't count the BE out of this bowl scrabble