Yankee Bowl: Big East No. 4 vs. Big 12 No. 7

Posted Sep 29, 2009 by Brett McMurphy

Updated Sep 29, 2009 at 04:26 PM

The Big East and Big 12 conferences will announce their participation in the Yankee Bowl Wednesday in a press conference at Yankee Stadium.

The Yankee Bowl will pit the fourth selection from the Big East against the seventh selection from the Big 12.

The New York Yankees have called a press conference to make a “major announcement regarding a college football bowl game at Yankee Stadium.”

Two weeks ago, I reported that the Big East would send its third or fourth selection to New York against likely the seventh selection from the Big 12. The bowl game would be played at the new Yankee Stadium with a seating capacity of about 47,000.

The game will be played beginning in 2010.

Here is the Big East’s new six-bowl lineup, for the 2010-13 cycle:

BCS (league champion)
Champs in Orlando (second selection or Notre Dame)
Meineke Car Care in Charlotte, N.C. (third selection)
Yankee Bowl (fourth selection)
Papajohns.com in Birmingham, Ala. (fifth-sixth selection)
St. Petersburg in St. Pete (fifth-sixth selection)

Papajohns.com and St. Pete bowls will share the fifth and sixth selections