Bad news first. The skunks in the Big East garden stunk it up tonight with a 28-13 loss to West Virginia tonight. Looks like our impressive defense couldn’t quite hold off the Big East Champion. However, (good news) after Louisville knocked Connecticut out of the running, the Bulls wrapped up a bid to the Meineke Car Care Bowl in Charlotte, NC!
This is huge. This will be USF’s first bowl game and with rumors of C-USA runner-up UCF bringing home a bowl berth, there could be five Florida teams playing in the post-season. Big Five, anyone?
This can only help recruiting which is the key to future seasons.
Plus I think we get a lot of money. I think we have to split it with the rest of the conference, so it’s a wash after the expenses of playing in a bowl.
The school gets a sizable chunk of money. That’s one of the reasons the bowl games are so important to coaches and programs.
http://www.bcsfootball.org/index2.cfm?page=revenue
Gives a somewhat confusing revenue distribution explanation.