2011 Bowl Schedule

Last updated: 8/24/2011

Date Bowl Site Matchup (Predicted) Result

1/9/12 BCS Title Game New Orleans BCS (Oklahoma) BCS (Alabama)

1/4/12 Orange Miami ACC (Florida St) BCS (Michigan)

1/3/12 Sugar New Orleans SEC (LSU) BCS (West Virginia)

1/2/12 Fiesta Glendale Big 12 (Texas A&M) BCS (Boise St)

1/2/12 Rose Pasadena Big 10 (Nebraska) Pac 12 (Stanford)

12/17/11 Humanitarian Boise WAC (Nevada) MAC (Ohio)

12/17/11 New Mexico Albuquerque Mtn W (Colorado St) WAC (Fresno St)

12/17/11 New Orleans New Orleans Sun B (Florida Intl) C-USA (UCF)

12/20/11 St. Petersburg St. Petersburg Big E (Pittsburgh) C-USA (Houston)

12/21/11 Poinsettia San Diego Mtn W (Air Force) Navy (Navy)

12/22/11 Las Vegas Las Vegas Mtn W (TCU) Pac 12 (Oregon St)

12/24/11 Hawai'i Honolulu WAC (Hawai'i) C-USA (Toledo)

12/26/11 Independence Shreveport ACC (Georgia Tech) Mtn W (San Diego St)

12/27/11 Belk Charlotte ACC (North Carolina) Big E (Cincinnati)

12/27/11 Little Caesar's Detroit Big 10 (Purdue) MAC (Western Michigan)

12/28/11 Holiday San Diego Big 12 (Texas Tech) Pac 12 (Utah)

12/28/11 Military Washington, DC ACC (Miami-Florida) Navy (Navy)

12/29/11 Alamo San Antonio Big 12 (Texas) Pac 12 (Oregon)

12/29/11 Champs Sports Orlando ACC (Maryland) Big E (South Florida)

12/30/11 Armed Forces Ft. Worth C-USA (Tulsa) Army (BYU)

12/30/11 Insight Phoenix Big 10 (Penn State) Big 12 (Missouri)

12/30/11 Music City Nashville ACC (Clemson) SEC (Kentucky)

12/30/11 Pinstripe New York Big 12 (Notre Dame) Big E (Connecticut)

12/31/11 Chick-fil-A Atlanta ACC (Virginia Tech) SEC (Auburn)

12/31/11 Kraft Fight Hunger San Francisco Pac 12 (Washington) Army (Northwestern)

12/31/11 Liberty Memphis C-USA (Southern Miss) SEC (Tennessee)

12/31/11 Sun El Paso ACC (North Carolina St) Pac 12 (Arizona St)

12/31/11 Texas Houston Big 10 (Ohio State) Big 12 (Temple)

1/2/12 Capital One Orlando Big 10 (Wisconsin) SEC (South Carolina)

1/2/12 Gator Jacksonville Big 10 (Michigan St) SEC (Florida)

1/2/12 Outback Tampa Big 10 (Iowa) SEC (Georgia)

1/2/12 TicketCity Dallas Big 10 (Illinois) C-USA (SMU)

1/6/12 Cotton Dallas Big 12 (Oklahoma St) SEC (Arkansas)

1/7/12 BBVA Compass Birmingham Big E (Louisville) SEC (Mississippi St)

1/8/12 GoDaddy.com Mobile MAC (Northern Illinois) Sun B (Troy)

Notes

Teams in parenthesis are projected. Teams without parenthesis in BCS bowls have clinched BCS berths, but not necessariliy for the game in which they are listed. Teams without parenthesis in non-BCS bowls have accepted bids to that game.

Conference tie-ins are listed for each game. In the case of the BCS games, those bowls could lose their tie-in teams to the title game. If that happens, that bowl can choose any BCS-eligible team to replace the team it lost and is not required to select one from the same conference as its tie-in.

In the case of non-BCS games, if there is a team listed that does not belong to the conference affiliated with that game, that means I am predicting that conference to not have enough bowl-eligible teams to fill that spot.

A note about bowl order within a conference - except for the champion, they do not necessarily relate directly to conference standings. For example, in the Big Ten, the Capital One bowl gets the second choice of teams from the Big Ten. They are not required to take the second place team. Conference tiebreakers are meaningless. Other things like TV appeal, fan interest, how recently a team has appeared in a bowl have more bearing than conference standings, within some reasonable parameters that vary from bowl to bowl.

Contingency agreements:

ACC: Kraft Fight Hunger

Army: Armed Forces (2010), Military (2010)

Big 12: Military (2011 only), TicketCity (2011, 2013)

C-USA: TicketCity (2010, 2012), Military (2011-13)

MAC: St. Petersburg

Sun Belt: Little Caesar's, Birmingham, St. Petersburg

Notre Dame: Pinstripe (for Big 12).

WAC: Poinsettia (2010, 2013)

Bowls with rotating or shared assignments (2010-13):

Armed Forces: C-USA (2010-12), Navy (2013).

Big East will play in two of Birmingham, Liberty and St. Petersburg each years, with no minimum commitment to any of them and no apparent process for determining which two in any given year.

Champs Sports: May select Notre Dame once in place of a Big East team.

Military: CUSA (2010), Navy (2011), Army (2012), Big 12 (2013)

Kraft Fight Hunger: Army (2011), Navy (2012)

Poinsettia: Navy (2010), WAC (2011-12), Army (2013)

TicketCity : Big 12 (2010, 2012), C-USA (2011, 2013)

Selection order notes:

Armed Forces, New Mexico: Bowls will work for best regional selection of Mtn West team.

MAC sends first choice to Little Caesar's in 2010 and 2012, and to the GMAC bowl in 2011 and 2013.