Posted on April - 22 - 2010
Mid-American Conference football teams likely to be in more bowl games
Last season, the Mid-American Conference for the third time in its history earned five bowl bids, in part because other conferences couldn’t fill their commitments.
For the next four years, five bowl bids now are even more likely.
The conference will maintain its three primary sponsorships, with the GMAC Bowl (in Mobile, Ala.), Little Caesar’s Pizza Bowl (Detroit) and Roady’s Humanitarian Bowl (Boise, Idaho) through 2013, it announced in a news release after this week’s BCS meetings in Scottsdale, Ariz.
In addition, the conference now has secondary agreements — in other words, it serves as the official backup to BCS conferences — for the Papajohns.com Bowl the next four seasons and the Dallas Football Classic in 2010 and 2012 and the New Mexico Bowl in 2011 and 2013.
“I am very pleased with our bowl agreements for the next four seasons,” said MAC commissioner Jon Steinbrecher. “We have a very solid relationship with our primary bowl partners and we look forward to continuing to expand these relationships. The addition of the secondary agreements provides our conference the opportunity to build on relationships with multiple bowl groups and ultimately give our member institutions an expanded platform for their programs and student-athletes to perform with other FBS conferences on a national stage.”
Last year, MAC teams went 1-4 in bowl games, with Central Michigan’s victory in the Little Caesar’s Bowl the conference’s only victory.
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