3 MORE bowl game have been added for the upcoming season...Good Lord!

56 of the 119 D-IA teams (that's 47%) will go bowling and NOW, .500 teams are allowed to go to bowls too! That's right, if you're in a major or mid-major conference and you go 6-6 this year, you're eligible for the postseason! Remember when going to a bowl was a real accomplishment?!?

Here's the scoop from ESPN.com...

The San Francisco Bowl, Hawaii Bowl and Queen City Bowl received certification and 25 other bowl games were renewed for the 2002-03 season this week by the NCAA. The NCAA's Football Certification Subcommittee made it official on Thursday.

Schools representing the Mountain West Conference and Big East Conference will compete in the San Francisco Bowl on Dec. 31 at Pacific Bell Park.

In the Hawaii Bowl, representatives of Conference USA and the Western Athletic Conference will compete on Christmas Day at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu.

The Queen City Bowl will be played on a date to be determined at Ericsson Stadium in Charlotte, N.C., pitting representatives of the Big East Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference against each other. (NOTE: That's 6 bowl tie-ins for the ACC now!)

The Division I Board of Directors recently lifted a two-year moratorium on the maximum number of postseason bowls in Division I-A. The moratorium had established a temporary limit of 26 bowl games.

"We had several new bowl organizations that came to us very well prepared with conference and television commitments, as well as good facilities and support from their communities. We believe they will sponsor events that will be good experiences for student-athletes," said Tim Curley, athletics director at Pennsylvania State University and chair of the Football Certification Subcommittee. "The subcommittee also reviewed encouraging reports regarding the current postseason bowl structure. Specifically, approximately $155 million was distributed to participating teams and conferences, and 1.3 million fans attended bowl games last year."

What they need to do is add just 3 more games, drop those annoying "rules", and Duke's goin' bowlin'

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<a href="http://msn.espn.go.com/magazine/geno_20020502.html" target="_blank">http://msn.espn.go.com/magazine/geno_20020502.html</a>

- from Gene Wojciechowski

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Three more bowl games? Sure, why not? In fact, the NCAA should have approved 30 more of the things Thursday and turned the postseason into the football equivalent of the late, great Indiana high school basketball tournament. That way every team could get a bowl invitation except Duke, which can

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by JoltinJacket:
"The Subcommittee also reviewed encouraging reports regarding the current postseason bowl structure. Specifically, approximately $155 million was distributed to participating teams and conferences, and 1.3 million fans attended bowl games last year."</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Does anything else really need to be said?!?!?!?

Yes, something else does need to be said!!!

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."

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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by drunkterp:
That way every team could get a bowl invitation except Duke, which can’t even win its own spring game.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img border="0" alt="[laugh]" title="" src="graemlins/laughing.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[laugh]" title="" src="graemlins/laughing.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[laugh]" title="" src="graemlins/laughing.gif" />
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LMFAO!!! That's hilarious.....True, but hilarious.

You know what that calls for....



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