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2011-12 College Football Bowl Schedule: ACC's Bowl Lineup Nearly Set

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The ACC's 2011-12 bowl lineup is nearly complete. Seven of the nine bowls that have ties with the conference have announced their dates and times so far.

Only the bottom two bowls in the ACC's pecking order -- the Military Bowl and the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl -- have yet to announce when they'll be played. Last season, the Military Bowl was played on December 29, while BC played out in San Francisco in the penultimate day of the 2010-11 college football season (January 9).

This year though, it's anyone's guess. As New Years Day falls on a Sunday this year, the college football bowl schedule will likely look very different from years past.

The ACC will kick things off on Monday, December 26 in the Independence Bowl down in Shreveport, Louisiana. After that, the conference will play in a bowl a day -- with the exception of Wednesday -- leading up to Saturday's blockbuster ACC bowl doubleheader featuring the Sun Bowl (2 PM) and the Peach Bowl (7:30 PM). The Continental Tire Meineke Car Care Belk Bowl is on Tuesday, 12/27, followed by the Champs Sports Bowl on 12/29 and the Music City Bowl on 12/30.

Hopefully, ESPN slots either the Military Bowl or the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl (or both!) on Wednesday, December 28 to complete a week-long college football orgy of ACC bowl action! Get some.

After the jump, the ACC bowl schedule as it stands today.

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BowlStadiumCap.LocationDayDateTime (EST)TVACC
Independence Independence Stadium 53,000 Shreveport Mon. 12/26 5 p.m. ESPN2 #7
Belk Bank of America Stadium 73,778 Charlotte Tue. 12/27 8 p.m. ESPN #5
Champs Sports Citrus Bowl 70,000 Orlando Thu. 12/29 5:30 p.m. ESPN #3
Music City LP Field 69,143 Nashville Fri. 12/30 6:40 p.m. ESPN #6
Sun Sun Bowl Stadium 51,500 El Paso Sat. 12/31 2 p.m. CBS #4
Peach Georgia Dome 71,228 Atlanta Sat. 12/31 7:30 p.m. ESPN #2
Orange Sun Life Stadium 74,918 Miami Tue. 1/3 8:30 p.m. ESPN #1
Military RFK Stadium 46,000 Washington TBA TBA TBA TBA #8
Fight Hunger AT&T Park 40,800 San Francisco TBA TBA TBA TBA #9

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Pretty sure the Kraft bowl is no longer ACC

Pretty sure we were slotted in because the Pac 10 didn’t have enough. I think they dropped the ACC official affiliation a year or two ago.

by AdamBC on Apr 26, 2011 8:27 PM EDT reply actions  

Like last year, the affiliation is conditional. If the bowl can’t fill one of its two conference affiliations, they’ll take an ACC team.

If they can, a 9th ACC bowl team would land wherever there was an opening.

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by Brian Favat on Apr 26, 2011 9:08 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

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The way BC has been playing, you can already be pretty sure which bowl they are going to. You can make your reservations for “one of the lower tier” bowls. Until BC makes a committment to winning, they are going nowhere. Spaziani has already proven that he cannot be a head coach. He was a great defensive coordinator. He is vindictive and spiteful. Some plans for change already need to be made. It appears that he is already “putting the wraps” on Rogers. Unless they develop a “diversified” offense, there is only a future with more of the same. Flutie made some common sense statements at the end of the year. In the athletic department, there is nothing but jealousy associated with his name. That is why Billy was treated like “garbage”! How did he “tear his hamstring” when he didn’t even play? Then when they had him on the operating table, they opened him up to find a “wrong prognosis”. What gives?

by JBQ on Apr 27, 2011 6:01 PM EDT reply actions  

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