- St. Petersburg Bowl
Collegebowl
name = St. Petersburg Bowl
full name = St. Petersburg Bowl
nickname =
defunct =
image size = 150px
caption = St. Petersburg Bowl logo.
stadium =Tropicana Field
previous_stadiums =
location =St. Petersburg, Florida
previous_locations =
years = 2008-present
previous_tie-ins = none
conference_tie-ins = Big East; C-USA Sun Belt (alternate)
payout = 1 million
sponsors = TBA
former_names =
prev_matchup_year =
prev_matchup_season =
prev_matchup_teams =
next_matchup_year = 2008
next_matchup_season = 2008
next_matchup_teams = C-USA vs. Big East
next_matchup_date = December 20The St. Petersburg Bowl is a NCAA Division I FBScollege football bowl game that will make its debut in 2008 atTropicana Field inSt. Petersburg, Florida , the home ofMajor League Baseball 'sTampa Bay Rays , and will pit teams from theBig East Conference andConference USA . Should one of the conferences not have enough teamsbowl eligible , theSun Belt Conference , provided they have enough teams eligible, will send a team in 2008 and 2009. The NCAA's Postseason Football Licensing Subcommittee approved the bowl onApril 30 ,2008 , along with theWashington, DC -basedEagleBank Bowl , allowing the committee that had proposed the game to host it after the 2008 college football season, [ [http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=ncf&id=3375759 NCAA committee approves 34 football bowl games] The Associated Press, ESPN.com.April 30 ,2008 . AccessedApril 30 ,2008 .] and will be played onDecember 20 th of that year with a telecast onESPN2 , of which a division ofESPN ,ESPN Plus (a/k/a "ESPN Regional Television") is the game's owner with kickoff scheduled to be at 6:30 PM US EST.Since "The Trop" was originally designed for
baseball , the football gridiron will be arranged along the right field line, from home plate to the foul pole. If the newRays Ballpark is approved and built on the site ofProgress Energy Park (nee Al Lang Stadium), the game will move there as well. [ [http://www.tampabay.com/sports/college/article481562.ece "NCAA approves St. Petersburg Bowl"] from "St. Petersburg Times ",2008-05-01 , retrieved2008-05-12 ] The game will be the second to take place in a baseball-only stadium among current post-season football contests; the other is theEmerald Bowl at San Francisco'sAT&T Park , the home of theSan Francisco Giants . Between 2000 and 2005, theInsight Bowl was played at the home of theArizona Diamondbacks ,Chase Field (nee Bank One Ballpark) inPhoenix, Arizona after being moved from Tuscon, while the 2001Seattle Bowl was played atSafeco Field whileQwest Field was being built on the site of theKingdome . Original plans had the EagleBank Bowl in Washington being played atNationals Park , but the game will be played atRFK Stadium instead.References
External Websites
[http://www.stpetersburgbowl.com Official website]
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