Tag: bowl game
The Mid-American Conference announced today a partnership with the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl as a primary bowl partner in 2017 and 2019, and a secondary bowl partner for the 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018 bowl seasons. The MAC will play the Mountain West Conference in both the 2017 and 2019 bowl seasons,...
The Mid-American Conference announced today the creation of a new bowl game in Boca Raton, Fla. for a six-year period (2014-2019), which will be owned and operated by ESPN. The Boca Raton Bowl will be a pre-Christmas bowl game and will be televised nationally on ESPN or ESPN2. The Boca Raton Bowl will be played...
One day after the 12-1 Northern Illinois football team earned an unprecedented bid to play in the Discover Orange Bowl, a representative from the bowl came to DeKalb to whip up excitement. Larry Gautier, a member of the football committee for the Orange Bowl, toured campus to distribute stickers for the big game. At his...
Just days after celebrating a season-ending victory in the GoDaddy.com Bowl in Mobile, Ala., a quartet of Northern Illinois University senior football players are taking a step toward a future in professional football as they begin training for postseason collegiate all-star games. Northern Illinois quarterback Chandler Harnish, named an honorable mention All-American by SI.com after...
Northern Illinois won its ninth-straight game and the outright Mid-American Conference West Division title with a dominating 71-3 victory over Eastern Michigan at Rynearson Stadium on Friday afternoon. “The big thing is I am proud the team – they have gone to Ball State and Eastern Michigan in some tough atmospheres and they just like playing...
