Birmingham Bowl

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The PapaJohns.com Bowl (provisionally called the Birmingham Bowl) is a post-season college football bowl game approved by the NCAA in 2006. The first Papa Johns.com Bowl is scheduled for 12:00 noon on December 23, 2006 at Legion Field.

The game matches a Big East Conference team against a representative of Conference USA. In the event that the Big East does not have any bowl-eligible teams left, the Mid-American Conference takes its spot. Tickets are $30 (or $20 each when buying 4 or more). Early purchasers will be able to renew the same seats for future games.

1st logo

The game is owned and organized by ESPN Regional TV. ESPN named Mark Meadows as executive director, Bo Kerr as manager of sales and marketing and Robbie Robertson as chairman of the executive board for the bowl committee. In September the bowl committee made a $25,000 donation to the Monday Morning Quarterback Club's fundraising efforts on behalf of the Crippled Children's Foundation. PapaJohns.com was announced as title sponsor on November 16, 2006.

2006

East Carolina University (7-5, 5-3 C-USA) and South Florida (8-4, 4-3 Big East) have accepted offers for the inaugural PapaJohns.com Bowl, which pays $300,000 to each affiliated conference. As of December 4, 2006 between 12 and 14,000 tickets had been sold.

References

• Melick, Ray (April 28, 2006) "NCAA approves The Birmingham Bowl." Birmingham News.
• Solomon, Jon (November 15, 2006) "Papa John’s signs on as sponsor of Birmingham Bowl." Birmingham News.
• Solomon, Jon (December 4, 2006) "Inaugural game dodges inviting .500 team." Birmingham News.

External links

• PapaJohns.com Bowl website