Cotton Bowl 2011

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Cotton Bowl reportedly hoping to join BCS party in 2011

The Dallas Cowboys' new 80,000-seat stadium in Arlington, Texas might be just the key to unlock the Cotton Bowl's inclusion in one of college football's most exclusive clubs: The BCS.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who has a special place in his heart for the Cotton Bowl after helping Arkansas win the national championship there in 1965 with a win over Nebraska, hopes the bowl game that has been played since 1937 can join the BCS, according to a published report.

Cotton Bowl Classic chairman Bruce Gadd notes that if it weren't for Jones' new stadium, the talk of BCS inclusion would be a short discussion.

"The missing piece has been that stadium," Gadd told the Kansas City Star.

Weather is traditionally not an issue for the hosts of the other BCS bowl games. Those sites -- Orange Bowl (South Florida), Sugar Bowl (Superdome), Fiesta Bowl (Arizona), Rose Bowl (California) -- are all either indoors or in warm weather climates. Mother Nature has been known to wreak havoc on Texas in January.

"What we didn't have was a world-class stadium with weather protection," Gadd told the paper. "We were perceived as a cold-weather bowl a lot."

The Cowboys' new stadium is expected to have a retractable roof.

Entire article: ESPN - Cotton Bowl reportedly hoping to join BCS party in 2011 - College Football

 

[thedecline19]

its funny how espn picked up this story after Stewart Mandel from Si.com wrote a good piece about it a few days ago. Before that article I didn't see anything about it, now apparently its big news to them.

 

[sandgk]

That new stadium is drop dead awesome in concept.

Hope they get it done right.

Max capacity could be as high as 100K.

 

[jwinslow]

The Dallas Cowboys' new 80,000-seat stadium in Arlington, Texas might be just the key to unlock the Cotton Bowl's inclusion in one of college football's most exclusive clubs: The BCS.

And the BCS continues to cheapen itself...

That new stadium is drop dead awesome in concept.

Hope they get it done right.

Yup, better fix that 'skins ticker.

 

[rocketman]

And the BCS continues to cheapen itself...

How so? The Cotton Bowl has a lot of history tied to it, and quite a few national championships were decided there, if I'm not mistaken. I'd rather have five BCS game locations rather than four with the repeat system we just started.

Yeah, it's all semantics, but at least that way the Rose Bowl can be an NC game again, rather than "The BCS National Championship at the Rose Bowl, but not really the Rose Bowl because that was a week earlier" bowl game.

 

[NFBuck]

That's an awesome stadium.

 

[jwinslow]

How so? The Cotton Bowl has a lot of history tied to it, and quite a few national championships were decided there, if I'm not mistaken. I'd rather have five BCS game locations rather than four with the repeat system we just started.

Well I think the 5th BCS bowl is too many, but my original post was assuming it was a 6th bowl. I agree a 5th location is better if 5 BCS bowls must exist.

 

[GrizzlyBuck]

Well I think the 5th BCS bowl is too many, but my original post was assuming it was a 6th bowl. I agree a 5th location is better if 5 BCS bowls must exist.

While I think the Cotton bowl and its history is deserving of BCS status, I agree that a 6th game would be pathetic. It is hard enough to accept the hype of some of the BCS bowls now. I think the plus one concept may be in store if they go to a 6th game, and although a playoff may be ideal, I don't expect to see it for a long time (if at all) I too agree that two bowl games held in the same location a week apart is also lame, so the new Cotton bowl might be the answer to that foible.

Besides I have good memories of Earle's fedora in the Cotton bowl