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Three more bowl games could be added


Apr 28, 2008 9:37:04 AM


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The NCAA Postseason Football Licensing Subcommittee will hear proposals by representatives from Washington, D.C.; St. Petersburg, Florida; and Salt Lake City about adding three more bowl games to the 2008 Division I Football Bowl Subdivision calendar.

If approved at the committee meeting April 29-May 1 in Weston, Florida, it would bring the number of Division I FBS postseason games to 35.

Teams must win at least six games against Division I competition to be eligible to compete in a bowl. Over the last few seasons, the number of bowl-eligible teams has hovered between 71 and 73.

The proposed game in Washington, D.C. would be called the Congressional Bowl and would match a team from the Atlantic Coast Conference against Army or Navy.

The proposed St. Petersburg Bowl would pit a Conference USA team against a Big East Conference representative, and the Rocky Mountain Bowl in Salt Lake City would have a Mountain West Conference team against a member of the Western Athletic Conference.


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