Instant Bowl: How the Frisco Football Classic sprang to life overnight

[Coach Andy Mac]

The tradition-steeped Rose Bowl is considered the “Granddaddy of them all.”

But the hastily arranged Frisco Football Classic, which kicks off Thursday in the same stadium that on Tuesday hosted the Frisco Bowl, says far more about what’s driving the proliferation of postseason games.Yep 

The Frisco Football Classic was ginned up the week before this season’s bowl pairings were announced to solve a thorny problem that arose when 83 teams finished the regular season with at least six wins. That was one too many bowl-eligible teams for the 82 slots in the 41 preapproved bowls.

So ESPN Events, which owns and operates more than one-third of the bowl games, huddled with the conferences that stood to lose out and proposed a 42nd bowl. With the NCAA’s Football Oversight Committee agreeing Dec. 2 to waive a deadline for certifying bowl games that had passed eight months before, a new bowl was born virtually overnight.

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[NT80]

I wondered why in the Tuesday bowl game the endzones looked so lame, like 1950-era diagonal stripes...

"But the plan to paint the teams’ names in the end zones for both bowl games had to be scrapped. Given Toyota Stadium’s natural turf, the paint couldn’t be removed and repainted after Tuesday’s bowl without destroying the grass for Thursday’s bowl and, in turn, for the FCS title game."

[LongJim]

TBH, I've often wondered why a bowl game couldn't be played at Apogee.  

The Paccar Big Rig Bowl.

The Sally Beauty Bowl.

The Albertsons/Safeway Bowl.

[Side.Show.Joe]

Two things...

What teams would have been left out had this bowl not materialized? And, where would UNT have gone?

[Stix]

"Given that it will be the game’s first and last edition, whoever tallies the most touchdown passes, rushing yards and tackles Thursday afternoon is assured of being a bowl record holder for all time." 😄