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In 2001, ESPN Regional Television moved beyond broadcasting college football bowl games, when it purchased the Las Vegas Bowl from Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. ESPN Regional did so to help partner conferences that had bowl qualified teams but no bowl available. The company bought four more bowls and started two others.
For nearly a century, bowl games were the purview of only the very best teams, but a steady proliferation of new bowl games required more teams, with 70 participating teams by the 2010–11 bowl season, then 80 participating teams by the 2015–16 bowl season. As a result, the NCAA has steadily relaxed the criteria for bowl eligibility.
Birmingham Bowl. The Birmingham Bowl is a post-season NCAA -sanctioned Division I FBS college football bowl game played annually in Birmingham, Alabama. First held in 2006, the game is owned and operated by ESPN Events. [ 2] The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) also provides marketing, management and game-day operations support.
Both teams made their first appearances in the Myrtle Beach Bowl, which was in just its second year. Old Dominion made their second bowl game appearance in program history, following their win in the 2016 Bahamas Bowl , [5] while Tulsa made their 23rd bowl game appearance, with their last appearance coming in a loss in the 2020 Armed Forces Bowl .
Boston College vs. SMU ( Boston College 23–14) The Fenway Bowl is an NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision college football bowl game played at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. Organized by ESPN Events and Fenway Sports Management, it features teams from the American Athletic Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference. [ 1]
This article lists the all-time win/loss NCAA Division I FBS sanctioned bowl game records for all NCAA college football teams. Win–loss records are current as of the 2023–24 bowl season. The columns for "last bowl season" and "last bowl game" have been updated to reflect 2023–24 bowl appearances for all games played through December 28, 2023.
The 2021 Birmingham Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 28, 2021, with kickoff at 12:00 p.m. EST (11:00 a.m. local CST) and televised on ESPN. It was the 15th edition of the Birmingham Bowl (after the 2020 edition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic), and was one of the 2021–22 bowl games concluding the 2021 FBS football season.
The Myrtle Beach Bowl is an NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) college football bowl game first played in December 2020 in the Myrtle Beach metropolitan area. Coastal Carolina University hosts the game at its Brooks Stadium in Conway, South Carolina , which has a capacity of 20,000 seats following an expansion project completed ...