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Headline: The Cotton Bowl moves to the Jerry Dome.
Reaction: If you missed this, you missed a potentially earth-shaking event. The Cotton Bowl game has been played at ... the Cotton Bowl since 1937. It was announced Tuesday that the game (and its name) will move to the new state-of-the-art Cowboys stadium being built by Jerry Jones in 2010.
Jerry Jones is an NFL guy, but his new stadium will mean big things for college football in the Dallas area. (US Presswire)
By taking its event from it current decrepit facility to the new stadium in Arlington, Texas, the Cotton is positioning itself for a move into the BCS rotation. There are still a few of us who remember the Cotton as one of the major New Year's Day bowls before the BCS.
The Cotton has wanted to get back in the big time since the beginning of the old Bowl Alliance in 1994. Meanwhile, the Sugar Bowl might struggle to stay in the BCS rotation (because of Katrina fallout) by the time the current contracts expire in three years.
Whether it does or not, the BCS won't be able to pass on a state-of-the-art stadium that will seat 100,000, especially if a plus-one game is added. To accommodate the non-BCS conferences, the BCS might have to add a sixth game (there are currently five). If so, the new Jerry Dome (our nickname) would be a no-brainer.
When completed, the facility will be one of only a handful of stadiums that will be able to host a Final Four. The stadium could be an anchor for a football "campus" featuring the College Football Hall of Fame when, not if, it moves from South Bend, Ind.
As one of the capitals of college football, Dallas should be a part of the BCS. It will be by the next decade.
Headline: Jerry Glanville vows to make Portland State the "hardest hitting team on the West Coast."
Reaction: The washed-up Glanville is picking a smaller region to conquer. His Hawaii defense (93rd in total D) couldn't beat out American Samoa as the hardest-hitting team on the Pacific Rim.
Headline: Former Nebraska scrub writes a tell-all book.
Reaction: After Lawrence Phillips' reign of terror, is there any shock left in Lincoln? Maybe. A former scout-teamer has gone Kitty Kelly, exposing the seedy underbelly of Husker football.
Dave Kolowski was around at a key point in Nebraska history, from 1998 -- when the program was coming off a national championship -- to 2002.
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Reaction: If you missed this, you missed a potentially earth-shaking event. The Cotton Bowl game has been played at ... the Cotton Bowl since 1937. It was announced Tuesday that the game (and its name) will move to the new state-of-the-art Cowboys stadium being built by Jerry Jones in 2010.
Jerry Jones is an NFL guy, but his new stadium will mean big things for college football in the Dallas area. (US Presswire)
By taking its event from it current decrepit facility to the new stadium in Arlington, Texas, the Cotton is positioning itself for a move into the BCS rotation. There are still a few of us who remember the Cotton as one of the major New Year's Day bowls before the BCS.
The Cotton has wanted to get back in the big time since the beginning of the old Bowl Alliance in 1994. Meanwhile, the Sugar Bowl might struggle to stay in the BCS rotation (because of Katrina fallout) by the time the current contracts expire in three years.
Whether it does or not, the BCS won't be able to pass on a state-of-the-art stadium that will seat 100,000, especially if a plus-one game is added. To accommodate the non-BCS conferences, the BCS might have to add a sixth game (there are currently five). If so, the new Jerry Dome (our nickname) would be a no-brainer.
When completed, the facility will be one of only a handful of stadiums that will be able to host a Final Four. The stadium could be an anchor for a football "campus" featuring the College Football Hall of Fame when, not if, it moves from South Bend, Ind.
As one of the capitals of college football, Dallas should be a part of the BCS. It will be by the next decade.
Headline: Jerry Glanville vows to make Portland State the "hardest hitting team on the West Coast."
Reaction: The washed-up Glanville is picking a smaller region to conquer. His Hawaii defense (93rd in total D) couldn't beat out American Samoa as the hardest-hitting team on the Pacific Rim.
Headline: Former Nebraska scrub writes a tell-all book.
Reaction: After Lawrence Phillips' reign of terror, is there any shock left in Lincoln? Maybe. A former scout-teamer has gone Kitty Kelly, exposing the seedy underbelly of Husker football.
Dave Kolowski was around at a key point in Nebraska history, from 1998 -- when the program was coming off a national championship -- to 2002.
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