Report: SEC adding 2 bowl games, dropping 1 from annual lineup
The bowl lineup is a fluid thing from year to year, and it appears there are some minor changes coming to the 2020-25 slates of games.
Some of those involve the SEC, which will add a tie to two separate bowl games while dropping a tie with a long-standing bowl game.
Per a report from Stadium’s Brett McMurphy, the SEC will play in the Las Vegas and Gasparilla bowls during the 2020-25 time frame, dropping the Independence Bowl from its lineup:
Changes in 2020-25 bowl lineup sources told @Stadium: SEC adds Vegas & Gasparilla, drops Independence; Pac-12 adds LA & Independence; ACC adds Fenway & Holiday, drops Quick Lane; Big Ten adds Vegas/Belk & Cheez-It; AAC may play 5 bowls vs. Power 5 teams https://t.co/sHC855JQSw
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) June 3, 2019
Per the report, the Big Ten and SEC will alternate with the Vegas Bowl and the Belk Bowl.
Whether or not these bowl games continue to be part of the SEC arsenal remains to be seen, but starting after next season, there will be a couple of new bowl locations.
The Las Vegas Bowl is obviously in Las Vegas, and the Gasparilla Bowl is played in Tampa.
No more Shreveport… It’s good to have some new venues. They should rotate them all every couple years..
Nice, the SEC will finally play the PAC12 (Vegas Bowl).
SEC (10 bowls)
2020-25 lineup:
Sugar vs. Big 12
Citrus vs. Big Ten
Las Vegas vs. Pac-12/Belk vs. ACC
Outback vs. Big Ten
Texas vs. Big 12
Gator vs. ACC
Music City vs. Big Ten
Liberty vs. Big 12
Birmingham vs. American
Gasparilla vs. American
I thought Citrus and Music City were both SEC vs B10/ACC or did ACC drop those recently?
I believe the ACC only gets those games under certain circumstances.
From wikipedia: Currently, the Citrus bowl has tie-ins with the SEC and the Big Ten, holding the first selection after the CFP selection process for both conferences. Since the formation of the CFP, the Citrus Bowl has a chance to occasionally host an ACC team, replacing the Big Ten representative. This will happen the years in which the Orange Bowl is not a CFP semi-final game and selects a Big Ten team to match against their ACC team. This happened following the 2016 season, as the Orange Bowl was not a CFP semi-final and invited Michigan of the Big Ten to face Florida State of the ACC; the Citrus Bowl then invited Louisville of the ACC to face LSU of the SEC.[6] The next year, Wisconsin was invited to the Orange Bowl, so the SEC’s LSU was pitted against Notre Dame, who received an invite in lieu of an ACC team
I bet Mike Leach wants to play in the Gasparilla Bowl.
…but without the poulan weedeater bowl in the line up, where will C. Morris and the good folks from piglandia spend their holiday after their next 6-6 season???