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It’s an SEC showdown for college football’s national championship when No. 1 LSU meets No. 2 Alabama on Jan. 9 in New Orleans. The SEC sent a whopping nine teams to post-season play.
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ESPN is broadcasting the bulk of the BCS bowl games, some of which sport names that could be mistaken for parodies, i.e., the New Era Pinstripe Bowl (Iowa St. vs. Rutgers), the Taxslayer.com Gator Bowl (Florida vs. Ohio St.) and the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s St. Petersburg Bowl (Florida International vs. Marshall).
Not even the granddaddy of them all, the Rose Bowl, can escape a wacky bowl name but at least it managed to give its corporate sponsor second billing — the Rose Bowl presented by VIZI.
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Also of note, in spite of months of controversy over a child sex abuse scandal by longtime former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, and the firing of university institution Joe Paterno, Penn St. made the cut and faces Houston in the TicketCity Bowl on Jan. 2.
The complete 2011-2012 college football bowl schedule is below.
DEC. 17
Gildan New Mexico Bowl — Albuquerque, NM
Wyoming vs. Temple
2 p.m. ET, ESPN
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl — Boise, ID
Ohio vs. Utah State
5:30 p.m. ET, ESPN
R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl — New Orleans, LA
San Diego State vs. Louisiana-Lafayette
9 p.m. ET, ESPN
DEC. 20
Beef ‘O’ Brady’s St. Petersburg Bowl — St. Petersberg, FL
Florida International vs. Marshall
8 p.m. ET, ESPN
DEC. 21
San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl — San Diego, CA
TCU vs. Louisiana Tech
8 p.m. ET, ESPN
DEC. 22
MAACO Bowl Las Vegas — Las Vegas, NV
Boise State vs. Arizona State
8 p.m. ET, ESPN
DEC. 24
Sheraton Hawaii Bowl — Honolulu, HI
Southern Mississippi vs. Nevada
8 p.m. ET, ESPN
DEC. 26
AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl — Shreveport, LA
North Carolina vs. Missouri
5 p.m. ET, ESPN
DEC. 27
Little Caesars Pizza Bowl — Detroit, MI
Purdue vs. Western Michigan
4:30 p.m. ET, ESPN
Belk Bowl — Charlotte, NC
North Carolina State vs. Louisville
8 p.m. ET, ESPN
DEC. 28
Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman — Washington, D.C.
Toledo vs. Air Force
4:30 p.m. ET, ESPN
Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl — San Diego, CA
California (U.C. Berkeley) vs. Texas
8 p.m. ET ESPN
DEC. 29
Champs Sports Bowl
Florida State vs. Notre Dame — Orlando, FL
5:30 p.m. ET, ESPN
Valero Alamo Bowl — San Antonio, TX
Baylor vs. Washington
9 p.m. ET, ESPN
DEC. 30
Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl — Dallas, TX
BYU vs. Tulsa
12 p.m. ET, ESPN
New Era Pinstripe Bowl — New York, NY
Iowa State vs. Rutgers
3:20 p.m. ET, ESPN
Franklin Am. Mortgage Music City Bowl — Nashville, TN
Mississippi State vs. Wake Forest
6:40 p.m. ET, ESPN
Insight Bowl — Tempe, AZ
Iowa vs. Oklahoma
10 p.m. ET, ESPN
DEC. 31
AutoZone Liberty Bowl — Memphis, Tenn.
Vanderbilt vs. Cincinnati
3:30 p.m. ET, ABC
Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl — San Francisco, CA
Illinois vs. UCLA
3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN
Chick-fil-A Bowl — Atlanta, GA
Virginia vs. Auburn
7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN
Meineke Car Care of Texas Bowl — Houston, TX
Texas A&M vs. Northwestern
12 p.m. ET, ESPN
Hyundai Sun Bowl — El Paso, TX
Georgia Tech vs. Utah
2 p.m. ET, CBS
JAN. 2
TicketCity Bowl — Dallas, TX
Penn State vs. Houston
12 p.m. ET, ESPNU
Outback Bowl — Tampa, FL
Michigan St. vs. Georgia
1 p.m. ET, ESPN
Taxslayer.com Gator Bowl — Jacksonville, FL
Florida vs. Ohio State
1 p.m. ET, ESPN2
Capital One Bowl — Orlando, FL
South Carolina vs. Nebraska
1 p.m. ET, ESPN
Rose Bowl presented by VIZIO — Pasadena, CA
Wisconsin vs. Oregon
5 p.m. ET, ESPN
Tostitos Fiesta Bowl — Glendale, AZ
Oklahoma State vs. Stanford
8:30 p.m. ET, ESPN
JAN. 3
Allstate Sugar Bowl — New Orleans, LA
Michigan vs. Virginia Tech
8: 30 p.m. ET, ESPN
JAN. 4
Discover Orange Bowl — Miami, FL
Clemson vs. West Virginia
8:30 p.m. ET, ESPN
JAN. 6
AT&T Cotton Bowl — Arlington, TX
Arkansas vs. Kansas St.
8 p.m. ET, Fox
JAN. 7
BBVA Compass Bowl — Birmingham, AL
Pittsburgh vs. SMU
1 p.m. ET, ESPN
JAN. 8
GoDaddy.com Bowl — Mobile, AL
Northern Illinois vs. Arkansas State
9 p.m. ET, ESPN
JAN. 9
Allstate BCS National Championship Game — New Orleans, LA
No. 1 LSU vs. No. 2 Alabama
8:30 p.m., ESPN
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