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2011 Bowl Schedule: 3 Bowl Games That Promise to Be Better Than Awful Sugar Bowl

Alex Kay
Dec 8, 2011

The Sugar Bowl is an absolute atrocity and should not even be considered a BCS bowl this season.

The fact that the No. 13 and No. 11 teams in the nation, Michigan and Virginia Tech, are considered a Top Five matchup while the Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9 and 12 teams are left to compete in second-tier bowls is a joke.

While I realize that not every team near the top of the rankings can make a BCS bowl, the selection for the Sugar Bowl is especially heinous. Those are the most overrated teams in the Top 15, and I think that these lesser bowls should carry more weight when the final polls come out.

Cotton Bowl

This should be a BCS bowl without a doubt.

We are talking about the No. 6 Arkansas Razorbacks, who have only lost to the two teams in the national championship game, and No. 8 Kansas State, runners-up in the second best conference in the nation, the Big 12.

How is this game less important than the Sugar or Orange Bowl? I have no idea.

Outback Bowl

These two runners-up in their conferences are playing in a very exciting bowl game that, unfortunately, doesnโ€™t amount to much.

Sparty finished No. 17 after barely losing to Wisconsin, while Georgia ended up at No. 16 with no losses to any team ranked lower than No. 7 at the end of the season.

They arguably got screwed by the polls because of the voters' โ€œWhat have you done for me lately" attitude and therefore got relegated to this game.

TicketCity Bowl

Houston was about to play for a BCS bowl until they blew it against Southern Miss, and no one wanted Penn State thanks to Jerry Sandusky.

Now, they play in the CottonBowlโ€™s namesake stadium in a matchup that pits a high-scoring team with barely any history against a defensive program that now has a tarnished reputation.

It should be much more exciting than that ridiculous Sugar Bowl.ย 

2011-2012 Bowl Schedule
DateWhenWhereBowl
MatchupNetwork

12/17

2 p.m. ESTUniversity Stadium:ย Albuquerque, New MexicoGildan New MexicoTemple vs. WyomingESPN

12/17

5:30 p.m. ESTBronco Stadium: Boise, IdahoFamous Idaho Potato BowlOhio vs. Utah StateESPN

12/17

9 p.m. ESTMercedes-Benz Superdome: New Orleans LouisianaR+L Carriers New OrleansSan Diego State vs. Louisiana-LafeyetteESPN

12/20

8 p.m. ESTTropicana Field: St. Petersburg FloridaBeef "O" Brady's St. PetersburgFlorida International vs. MarshallESPN

12/21

8 p.m. ESTQualcomm Stadium: San Diego, CaliforniaS.D. County Credit Union PoinsettiaTCU vs. Louisiana TechESPN

12/22

8 p.m. ESTSam Boyd Stadium: Las Vegas, NevadaMAACO Las VegasArizona State vs. Boise StateESPN

12/24

8 p.m. ESTAloha Stadium: Honolulu, HawaiiSheraton HawaiiNevada vs. Southern MissESPN

12/26

5 p.m. ESTIndependence Stadium: Shreveport, LouisianaAdvoCare V100 IndependenceMissouri vs. North CarolinaESPN2

12/27

4:30 p.m. ESTFord Field: Detroit MichiganLittle CeasarsWestern Michigan vs. PurdueESPN

12/27

8 p.m. ESTBank of America Stadium: Charlotte, North CarolinaBelkLouisville vs. NC StateESPN

12/28

4:30 p.m. ESTRFK Stadium: Washington D.C.Military Bowl Presented By Northrop GrummanToledo vs. Air ForceESPN

12/28

8 p.m. ESTQualcomm Stadium: San Diego, CaliforniaBridgepoint Education HolidayCalifornia vs. TexasESPN

12/29

5:30 p.m. ESTFlorida Citrus Bowl: Orlando, FloridaChamps SportsFlorida State vs. Notre DameESPN

12/29

9 p.m. ESTAlamodome: San Antonio, TexasValero AlamoWashington vs. BaylorESPN

12/30

noon ESTGerald J. Ford Stadium: Dallas, TexasBell Helicopter Armed ForcesBYU vs. TulsaESPN

12/30

3:20 p.m. ESTYankee Stadium: Bronx, New YorkNew Era PinstripeRutgers vs. Iowa StateESPN

12/30

6:40 p.m. ESTLP Field: Nashville, TennesseeFranklin American Mortgage Music CityMississippi State vs. Wake ForestESPN

12/30

10 p.m. ESTSun Devil Stadium: Tempe, ArizonaInsightIowa vs. OklahomaESPN

12/31

noon ESTReliant Stadium: Houston, TexasMeineke Car Care of TexasTexas A&M vs. NorthwesternESPN

12/31

2 p.m. ESTSun Bowl: El Paso, TexasHyundai SunGeorgia Tech vs. UtahCBS

12/31

3:30 p.m. ESTLiberty Bowl: Memphis, TennesseeAutoZone LibertyCincinnati vs. VanderbiltABC

12/31

3:30 p.m. ESTAT&T Park: San Francisco, CaliforniaKraft Fight HungerIllinois vs. UCLAESPN

12/31

7:30 p.m. ESTGeorgia Dome: Atlanta, GeorgiaChick-fil-AVirginia vs. AuburnESPN

1/2

noon ESTCotton Bowl: Dallas, TexasTicketCityHouston vs. Penn StateESPNU

1/2

1 p.m. ESTRaymond James Stadium: Tampa, FloridaOutbackMichigan State vs. GeorgiaABC

1/2

1 p.m. ESTFlorida Citrus Bowl: Orlando FloridaCapital OneNebraska vs. South CarolinaESPN

1/2

1 p.m. ESTEverBank Field: Jacksonville, FloridaTaxSlayer.com Gator BowlOhio State vs. FloridaESPN2

1/2

5 p.m. ESTRose Bowl: Pasadena, CaliforniaRose Bowl presented by VIZIOWisconsin vs. OregonESPN

1/2

8:30 p.m. ESTUniversity of Phoenix Stadium: Glendale, ArizonaTostitos FiestaStanford vs. Oklahoma StateESPN

1/3

8:30 p.m. ESTLouisiana Superdome: New Orleans LouisianaAllstate SugarMichigan vs. Virginia TechESPN

1/4

8:30 p.m. ESTSun Life Stadium: Miami, FloridaDiscover OrangeWest Virginia vs. ClemsonESPN

1/6

8 p.m. ESTCowboys Stadium: Arlington, TexasAT&T CottonKansas State vs. ArkansasFOX

7/1

1 p.m. ESTLegion Field: Birmingham, AlabamaBBVA Compass BowlSMU vs. PittsburghESPN

1/8

9 p.m. ESTLadd-Peebles Stadium: Mobile, AlabamaGoDaddy.comArkansas State vs. Northern IllinoisESPN

1/9

8:30 p.m. ESTLouisiana Superdome: New Orleans, LouisianaAllstate BCS National Championship GameLSU vs. AlabamaESPN

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