College Football Bowl Season 2009 – 2010
December 7, 2009
College football provides a little bit of something for everyone in the bowl games for the 2009 – 2010 season, and I mean everyone: especially those who want to cash in on audiences of various size. College football, like everything else in America is all about money.
Before Bowling for Dollars moved from alleys and ten pins to college football you were pretty much assured of seeing a good game between good teams. The Rose Bowl featured the PAC-10 winner versus the Big Ten winner. It was nicknamed "The Granddaddy of Them All" and has been a sellout every year since 1947. The Tournament of Roses originally featured ostrich races, bronco busting and, even, a race between a camel and an elephant. It wasn’t until its 12th year that a football game was added. That game lasted just a little more than two quarters when, with the score 49 – 0, Stanford gave up and walked off the field giving Michigan the victory. Years 13, 14 and 15 had chariot races instead of football, but the pigskin returned in year 16.
The other big games included the Cotton Bowl featuring the Southwest Conference Champion against someone-to-be-determined, the Sugar Bowl featuring the Southeast Conference Champion versus someone-to-be-named, the Orange Bowl that highlighted two teams to be named. The lesser bowls were the Gator Bowl and the Liberty Bowl.
But all that changed as money began to dominate college football. The list of all 2009 – 2010 Bowl Games is below. Matchups between Top 10 Tens are bold.
Bowl Games in 2009 -2010
|
Bowl
|
Date
|
Teams
|
| New Mexico | 12/19 | Fresno State 28 – Wyoming 35 |
| St. Petersburg | 12/19 | UCF 24 – Rutgers 45 |
| R+L Carriers New Orleans | 12/20 | Southern Miss 32 – Middle Tennessee 42 |
| MAACO Las Vegas | 12/22 | Oregon State (18) 20 – BYU (14) 44 |
| S.D. County Credit Union Poinsettia | 12/23 | Utah (23) 37 – Cal 27 |
| Sheraton Hawaii | 12/24 | Nevada 10 – SMU 45 |
| Little Caesars | 12/26 | Marshall 21 – Ohio 17 |
| Meineke Car Care | 12/26 | Pitt (17) 19 – North Carolina 17 |
| Emerald | 12/26 | Boston College 13 – USC (24) 24 |
| Gaylord Hotels Music City | 12/27 | Kentucky 13 – Clemson 21 |
| AdvoCare V100 Independence | 12/28 | Texas A&M 20 – Georgia 44 |
| EagleBank | 12/29 | UCLA 30 – Temple 21 |
| Champs Sports | 12/29 | Miami (15) 14 – Wisconsin (25) 20 |
| Roady’s Humanitarian | 12/30 | Bowling Green 42 – Idaho 43 |
| Pacific Life Holiday | 12/30 | Arizona (20) 0 – Nebraska (22) 33 |
| Bell Helicopter Armed Forces | 12/31 | Houston 20 – Air Force 47 |
| Brut Sun | 12/31 | Oklahoma 31 -. Stanford (21) 27 |
| Texas | 12/31 | Navy 35 – Missouri 13 |
| Insight | 12/31 | Minnesota 13 – Iowa State 14 |
| Chick-fil-A | 12/31 | Virginia Tech (11) 37 – Tennessee 14 |
| Outback | 01/01 | Northwestern vs. Auburn |
| Capital One | 01/01 | Penn State (13) vs. LSU (12) |
| Konica Minolta Gator | 01/01 | West Virginia (16) vs. Florida State |
| Rose Bowl Game presented by Citi | 01/01 | Ohio State (8) vs. Oregon (7) |
| Allstate Sugar | 01/01 | Florida (5) vs. Cincinnati (3) |
| International | 01/02 | South Florida vs. Northern Illinois |
| Papajohns.com | 01/02 | South Carolina vs. UConn |
| AT&T Cotton | 01/02 | Oklahoma State (19) vs. Ole Miss |
| AutoZone Liberty | 01/02 | Arkansas vs. East Carolina |
| Valero Alamo | 01/02 | Michigan State vs. Texas Tech |
| Tostitos Fiesta | 01/04 | Boise State (6) vs. TCU (4) |
| FedEx Orange | 01/05 | Iowa (10) vs. Georgia Tech (9) |
| GMAC | 01/06 | Central Michigan vs. Troy |
| Citi BCS National Championship Game | 01/07 | Texas (2) vs. Alabama (1) |
So, there’s a whole lot of opportunity to Party Your, uh, Head Off. Grab a significant (or insignificant) other and have a good time as college football shines. Guys, maximize your chances to score with the winners by grabbing some of that clothing mentioned above in my own advertising. Don’t blame me, I’d like to make a little money off the bowl games, too. And you’ll like what I’m promoting a whole lot better, especially when victory is yours.
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