USA Today Sports section today had an article that said the NCAA is going to most likely put a cap on bowl games to the current number, for fear that additional bowls will not be able to fill their slots.

This season, apparently any team with a 6-5 record will be going to a bowl, even 6-5 Akron out of the MAC and 7-4 Troy from the Sun Belt looks headed to bowl games. If there were one fewer bowl eligible team, there would not be enough to fill the spots without special waivers.

This could be bad news for us and the planned bowls in NYC and Toronto. There were 5 other proposed new bowls mentioned in the article (atlanta, Miami, Denver... i forget the other 2).


There is also an issue with attendance with 3 bowls - the New Orleans, the Silicon Valley, and the Orlando bowl that used to be the Tangeriene (don't remember new corporate name). There is a 3 year requirement of 25k for bowls, and these 3 are apparently in danger of missing that requirement. Don't know what the Sun Belt would do if the New Orleans bowl was lost... that is there only bowl.

Could we be stuck with only the bowl tie-ins we now have?????

EDIT - here is the article:

<a href='http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/bowls/2004-11-30-bowl-cap_x.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/foo...-bowl-cap_x.htm</a>