Austin Bowl

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Austin Bowl
StadiumDarrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium
LocationAustin, Texas
OperatedTBD
Conference tie-ins

The Austin Bowl is a proposed NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision college football bowl game to be played in Austin, Texas at Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium. The college conferences that would have tie-ins with the bowl are the American Athletic Conference and the Sun Belt Conference.

History

In May 2015, the NCAA certified the Austin area for a bowl game. But bowl organizers indicated that due to the lack of time, the preparation for the game would not be sufficient. It was then decided that organizers would resubmit their application to host the game for the 2016 Bowl season. [1][2][3] On April 11, 2016, the NCAA announced a freeze on new bowl games until after the 2019 season.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Report: Three FBS bowl games added, pushing total to 42". Retrieved May 6, 2015.
  2. ^ "Number of bowls drops from 42 to 41 after Austin chooses to wait until 2016". Retrieved May 27, 2015.
  3. ^ "Austin will wait till 2016 to stage its first bowl game". Retrieved September 23, 2016.
  4. ^ "NCAA approves three-year halt to new bowl games". Retrieved April 11, 2016.