A Look at the PapaJohns.com Bowl
Submitted by podizz on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 13:17
- Created in 2006, the PapaJohns.com Bowl is played annually at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama.
- ESPN Regional Television owns and manages the bowl's operations, sponsorships and marketing, including broadcast of the game on ESPN.
- Papa John's pizza became the title sponsor signing a multi-year agreement on November 16, 2006.
- The bowl originally had a four-year agreement with Conference USA to match a representative of that conference against an opponent from the Big East Conference, but the bowl's officials later appealed to the NCAA for a recertification which was granted in late April 2008. In 2008 and 2009, the bowl featured the SEC's ninth bowl-eligible team and a team from the Big East. Should either of these conferences not fulfill their bowl commitments, a team from the Sun Belt Conference would take their place, provided it was bowl eligible.
- Results:
- December 23, 2006 South Florida 24 East Carolina 7
- December 22, 2007 Cincinnati 31 Southern Miss 21
- December 29, 2008 Rutgers 29 NC State 23
- January 2, 2010 Connecticut vs. South Carolina
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