Three additional college football bowl games will be added in 2014, ESPN has reported. Including the College Football Playoff, there will be a total of 38 bowl games after the 2014 regular season.
Back in August, ESPN Regional Television announced the creation of the Camellia Bowl, which will feature a match-up of teams from the MAC and Sun Belt Conference.
The three new bowls will also feature games between members of the five non-power conferences (The American, C-USA, MAC, MWC, and Sun Belt). The conferences provide teams to the three bowls on a rotating basis rather than having set tie-ins.
“The non-power leagues were denied opportunities in other bowls, so they had to create opportunities for their teams,” a source told ESPN. “The new bowls are a result of existing bowls not entertaining opportunities for those five [non-power] conferences.
“The old days for one conference to have a deal are dead. It will be very fluid.”
Here are the details on each new bowl game. More info will come after the games are officially announced (Note: all games use working titles pending sponsorship).
Bahamas Bowl
The Bahamas Bowl, which will be officially announced on Oct. 14, will be played at Thomas Robinson Stadium in Nassau. The stadium seats 15,000, but can be expanded to hold up to 30,000.
Teams from The American, C-USA, MAC, MWC, and Sun Belt will appear in the bowl
Update: The Bahamas Bowl has been officially announced. The MAC will play the American Athletic Conference in the Bahamas Bowl in 2014 and Conference USA in 2015.
Boca Raton Bowl
The Boca Raton Bowl will be played at FAU Stadium, the home of the FAU Owls of Conference USA.
Teams from C-USA, MAC and The American will appear in the bowl.
Update: The Boca Raton Bowl was officially announced on Oct. 11. It will be a pre-Christmas bowl game and will be televised nationally on ESPN or ESPN2. The MAC will play Conference USA in the Boca Raton Bowl in 2014 and the American Athletic Conference in 2015.
Miami Bowl
According to ESPN, this bowl is expected to be played at Marlins Park, which is the new home of the Florida Miami Marlins.
A team from The American will be the “anchor,” with the opponent rotating between C-USA, MAC, MWC, and Sun Belt.
Update: The Miami Beach Bowl was officially announced on Oct. 24. A team from the American Athletic Conference will participate each season against a team from C-USA, MAC, or Sun Belt. Teams from other conferences could also play in the game.
Bowl Schedules
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what a joke the bowl system is
Yes, there is such a thing as "too much football." And yes, I'm aware that "I don't have to watch if I don't want to."
sorry Pete you can not get too much football. I will watch Georgia Southern play Wyoming in the Bahamas Bowl....you will too
WHAT A F'n JOKE!!!!!!!!!! Let's have more Sh!T Teams playing in the Who gives 2 Ratz Azz bowl. YAWN!!!!!!!!!!! Bunch of Greedy Piles of Garbage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With App and Ga Southern coming aboard next year, FBS will have 128 teams, meaning 78 teams will be needed to fill these bowls. Major college football, like all other sports, are becoming a liberal minded phenomenon where "everybody who participates gets a trophy". Pathetic.
Appalachian State, Georgia Southern and Old Dominion won't be eligible for bowls until after the 2015 season.
With 39 bowls including the playoff, only 76 teams will be needed because two teams will play twice -- the semifinal bowls and the championship game.
Not nearly as pathetic as individuals who try to shove their political leanings into every conversation they can.
Kevin, I don't believe the Championship Game will be considered a "bowl" it is it's own separate entity. I believe 39 bowls means 78 teams and whatever two teams will their "bowl semifinal" will advance to the championship which isn't a bowl.
I meant to say **win** their playoff bowl game will advance..
The existing bowls have shut out these five conferences from playing in their games. I think we are going to see lots of 5-7 teams from the ACC and Big Ten making it to bowl games. I don't blame these five conferences for making their own opportunities.
This is what results when the NCAA lets a 6-7 Georgia Tech team go to a bowl over a 9-3 Louisiana Tech team. Anyone who thinks that is fair is delusional.
don't forget 8-4 Middle Tennessee, they were one of the 7 who beat Georgia Tech.....
Actually, Louisiana Tech declined their bowl invite because they were hoping for a better one. They didn't get it and were left out in the cold.
I'm surprised NCAA made the Bahamas Bowl in 2014
this is such a joke!! who cares about the non-power conferences bowl games! roll tide!
I'm going to guess you never even went to Bama.
Alabama fans have already forgotten the years before Saben. Can't wait for those days to return.
College football was better before the BCS. Before the big 5 clown conferences decided to that there wasn't enough money or power for all teams.
People in the schools going to those bowl games care. Some of us don't give a flying fuque about Alabama. We care about ourselves. See you in the Bahamas.
Around the Bowl, an DOWN THE HOLE.....roll tide roll! WAR DAMN EAGLE!
lets give it to the trophy generation..... everybody gets a ribbon
Well, it's an excuse to go to take a Caribbean vacation. Conch fritters, beach volleyball, and bembe. Can't really complain.