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July 12, 2005

Big 12 signs Gator, Sun & Insight bowls

The Big 12 Conference football post-season is about to get a good shake, as the conference is dropping several bowl alliances in favor of three new bowl affiliations. In it's wake, the Big 12 is leaving several conferences out in the cold.

The Big 12 is preparing to end it's long standing relationship with the Independence Bowl, the Champs Sports Bowl, and the Fort Worth Bowl. Instead, the Big 12 will play in the Gator Bowl, the Sun Bowl, and the Insight Bowl beginning in the 2006 season.

The changes to the bowl game lineup will bring in an estimated $2 million in additional revenue, plus ensure that no Big 12 team has to play in a bowl before Christmas Day.

As a result of the Big 12's move, the Big 10 will lose it's slot with the Sun Bowl and the Big East will lose it's spot in the Gator Bowl for several years. Under the proposed terms, the Gator Bowl would get the ACC representative, and then invite a Big 12 team for two years, a Big East team for two years, or bypass a Big East team once to select independent Notre Dame. (Easy, right?)

It's unclear how the relationship will work with the Insight Bowl, but it is expected that the game will now pair the Big 12 representative against a Big 10 or Pac 10 opponent.

Posted by Kevin Donahue

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Comments:

  1. Phil said:

    posted on July 12, 2005 1:35 PM — 65.195.232.14 — link — abuse?



    Why can't you bloggers admit where you got stuff. The Big 12-Gator Bowl connection was broken by the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville Monday, and you make it sound like you stumbled across it today.

  2. Fanblogs Author Kevin Donahue said:

    posted on July 12, 2005 2:45 PM — link — abuse?



    Thanks for noting that we did source today's FTU story - link above - just in case you missed it.

  3. schmed said:

    posted on July 12, 2005 4:49 PM — 208.248.231.58 — link — abuse?



    And in the "Slightly More Productive than Recycling Naval Lint" department, some fool at FoxPorts has come out with the 2005/6 bowl matchups.

    Really.

  4. schmed said:

    posted on July 12, 2005 4:59 PM — 208.248.231.58 — link — abuse?



    Snide Comment No. 78,734, take 2...


    And in the "Slightly More Productive than Recycling Navel Lint" department, some fool at FoxPorts has come out with the 2005/6 bowl matchups.

    Really.

  5. Madison Hawk said:

    posted on July 12, 2005 7:02 PM — 204.124.240.254 — link — abuse?



    The Daily Oklahoman links says the Big 10 has an affiliation with the Insight Bowl. Any other word on the Big 10's new affiliation?

  6. Fanblogs Author Kevin Donahue said:

    posted on July 12, 2005 7:28 PM — link — abuse?



    I know the Big 10 wanted an affiliation with the Gator Bowl and was likely to dump the Citrus for the Gator. Now that the Gator has gone with Big 12/Big East, it will be interesting to see how the other bowl pairings shake out.

  7. Chuck said:

    posted on July 13, 2005 2:30 PM — 68.91.20.133 — link — abuse?



    The Sun Bowl ended up with a great deal. It keeps the Pac-10 and gains the Big XII. The Big Ten has sent Purdue 5 of the last 7 years. Now, the Sun will get more regional teams to play the Pac-10 teams.

  8. Maurice said:

    posted on July 13, 2005 3:31 PM — 208.17.179.33 — link — abuse?



    The end is near for the Big East Football.

  9. Jeff said:

    posted on July 14, 2005 10:16 AM — 70.150.177.5 — link — abuse?



    Could the ACC do some modifying or dropping of the Gator? As it stands now the losing team in the ACC championship game will likely be playing 2 games in Jacksonville within a month of each other - potentially a bad situation for fan travel possibilities.

  10. Fanblogs Author Kevin Donahue said:

    posted on July 14, 2005 4:49 PM — link — abuse?



    The new agreement with the Gator gives the commissioners more leeway in assigning the bowl representatives so that the ACC doesn't always send the same team back to Jax.

  11. Jon Johnston said:

    posted on July 19, 2005 5:07 PM — 205.215.222.142 — link — abuse?



    The Sun Bowl? The Big 12 signs up for the Sun Bowl? Who the hell wants to travel to El Paso? Gag!

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