Big Ten Bowl Schedule Released

by Adam Bittner on Jun 17, 2011 2:40 PM EDT in B1G / BigTen

The Big Ten bowl schedule is out, and if you liked four games of conference interest going on at once this past New Year's Day, get ready for the sequel on Jan. 2, 2012. New ESPN.com Big Ten blogger Brian Bennett has the full lineup of non-BCS bowls.

Non-BCS Big Ten bowls

Outback Bowl: Jan. 2, 1 p.m. (Tampa, Fla.): Big Ten vs. SEC
Gator Bowl: Jan. 2, 1 p.m. (Jacksonville, Fla.): Big Ten vs. SEC
Capital One Bowl: Jan. 2, 1 p.m. (Orlando, Fla.): Big Ten vs. SEC
Ticket City Bowl: Jan. 2, 12 p.m. (Dallas): Big Ten vs. Conference USA
Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas: Dec. 31, Noon (Houston): Big Ten vs. Big 12
Insight Bowl: Dec. 30, 10 p.m. (Tempe, Ariz.): Big Ten vs. Big 12
Little Caesars Pizza Bowl: Dec. 27, 4:30 p.m. (Detroit) Big Ten vs. MAC

The Outback Bowl really screwed things up for everyone. It used to be that you could turn that game on at 11 A.M., watch it straight through and just miss the beginning of the Capital One and Gator Bowls. Now, all three start at the exact same time, just an hour after the Ticket City Bowl gets underway, and it's nearly impossible to track them all, especially if your team is one of the four competing at the same time.

Having five New Year's Day games, counting the Rose Bowl, is great for the conference, but if stinks out loud for the fans. The start times should be staggered, but any bowl starting later than 1 P.M. might mess with Jim Delany's precious Rose Bowl, and that can't happen.

All the more incentive to earn those BCS berths, I suppose....

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Sigh

In this modern age, you’d think we’d be able to manage a schedule so that we’d only have at most two Big Ten bowls going at once. Guess it just means our individual team fanbases provide enough eyeballs to support each game without relying on assistance from the fanbases of conference partners?

Doesn’t matter to me though. I’d still prefer to be able to watch all the Big Ten bowls without flipping across 4 different channels at once.

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by 06Lion on Jun 17, 2011 2:48 PM EDT reply actions

yeah

that’s lame. I liked the old staggered approach where you could watch one for an hour or two before the next one started. That way you could get a full day of non-stop football in and get to see how all the teams around the conference are doing.

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by skarocksoi on Jun 17, 2011 2:56 PM EDT up reply actions

Why Jan 2?

I see Jan 1 is on a sunday, but why push the games back to Jan 2?

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by bconway6 on Jun 17, 2011 2:48 PM EDT reply actions

NFL plays a full slate on Sunday

Easy way to lose TV viewers: go head to head with the NFL

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by KC_HAWKEYE on Jun 17, 2011 2:49 PM EDT up reply actions

uuugh...

the NFL insists on playing still?

Also, are they just assuming that everyone also gets the following Monday off for New Years Day? Seems unfortunate for those that don’t get to move holidays around (though most companies/businesses do).

by bconway6 on Jun 17, 2011 2:54 PM EDT up reply actions

And

Jacksonville has a home game on Jan.1 against the Colts with a 1 pm EST kick. Less than 24 hours to paint that field!
(The Bucs are away the two weeks before the Outback, and the Citrus and Cotton Bowls don’t have to worry about pro schedules.)

by Smee on Jun 17, 2011 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions

if it rains that weekend in Jax,

be ready for another lsu citrus bowl victory kinda game

by hbeach08 on Jun 17, 2011 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions

Didn't they change the turf?

by misdreavus79 on Jun 17, 2011 10:35 PM EDT up reply actions

ah, no idea

but if its artificial, disregard that

by hbeach08 on Jun 18, 2011 11:52 AM EDT up reply actions

Jan 2 is the official gov't holiday.

by PSU Mudder on Jun 17, 2011 3:19 PM EDT up reply actions

TV contracts do not allow competition between NFL and CFB, for the most part.

That’s why the only CFB monday nights are before the NFL starts, and NFL doesn’t do Sats until after CFB.

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by PSUinBOSSton on Jun 17, 2011 8:42 PM EDT up reply actions

I got by pretty well last year

I bought a third TV for $5 at garage sale (I had one in the bedroom and one in the living room already) and put them all in the same room. I could have used my computer to watch NW play Texas Tech but given that the cats are cursed to always lose their bowl games I figured t would be ok with missing that one. It worked out pretty well but the people I watched with all agreed it may have been more difficult if MSU and Michigan weren’t getting blown out.

It isn’t ideal, I liked the old schedule better, but if this increases everyone’s bowl revenue with better TV contracts then I am fine with spending $5 on the extra TV and rearranging my living room.

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by KC_HAWKEYE on Jun 17, 2011 2:56 PM EDT reply actions

Jan 2nd sucks

Completely blows up family tradition of waking up with a hangover and watching football all day long.

Now I’ve got to do that for two days in a row.

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by SarcasmJam on Jun 17, 2011 3:17 PM EDT reply actions 5 recs

Twist your arm!

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by Chris McKeown on Jun 17, 2011 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions

Damn!

I hate it when that happens!

This is BSD, the crazy stirs itself.

by Paige2PSU on Jun 17, 2011 4:22 PM EDT up reply actions

Great

Now I have to take a sick day on Jan 3rd because I’m still plastered from Jan 2nd. I thought thats what the official gov’t holiday on the 2nd was for?!

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by psuphysicist on Jun 17, 2011 3:25 PM EDT reply actions

And Ohio State WON'T BE PLAYING IN ANY OF THEM.

BWAHAHAHAHA

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by ReadingRambler on Jun 17, 2011 5:27 PM EDT reply actions 4 recs

National Championship Game Baby WOOOOOO!

Um. Or the abyss. Really, one or the other.

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by Semicorrect on Jun 18, 2011 7:30 AM EDT up reply actions

Eh, at the BCS games got some spacing this year

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by ICEICETHATGUY13 on Jun 17, 2011 6:01 PM EDT reply actions

Glad I have enough monitor real estate

to have four to six screens up at once.

by misdreavus79 on Jun 17, 2011 10:37 PM EDT reply actions

I'm pleased that the Outback Bowl is not so early any more

It sucked waking up early enough to get to that 11AM game. 1PM is better. They should put the Citrus Bowl on earlier and the other one on later.

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by showtime on Jun 18, 2011 8:45 AM EDT reply actions

I think a simple displacement would work wonders: Make the Outback Bowl at (say) 12:30pm and make the Gator Bowl at 1:30pm. Now, that puts all the halftimes at various times and would make jumping around awesome.

by Laaaaazzz on Jun 19, 2011 8:46 PM EDT up reply actions