The Big Ten shuffled its postseason bowl game lineup, adding some popular fan destinations in new football agreements announced Tuesday.
The league added the Champs Sports Bowl in Orlando and the Insight Bowl in Tempe, Ariz., in a four-year agreement starting in 2006. The conference will drop the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas, and the Music City Bowl in Nashville after this season. The status of the Motor City Bowl in Detroit is still up in the air.
The Big Ten also extended its agreement with the Capital One (Orlando), Outback (Tampa, Fla.) and Alamo (San Antonio) bowls for four more years. It already had signed an eight-year extension with the Rose Bowl through the 2013 season.
"With a heavy concentration of Big Ten alumni in the states of Arizona, California, Florida and Texas, this bowl lineup is a natural fit for the conference and should provide some great matchups on the field," Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said.
Held the final week of December, the Champs Sports Bowl will have the fourth choice of Big Ten schools for two years and the fifth choice the other two years, rotating with the Alamo Bowl. The Big Ten's opponent for the Champs Sports Bowl has not been finalized yet.
The Insight Bowl will move to Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Ariz., in December 2006 and will pit the Big Ten against the Big 12.
The Big Ten currently has six tie-ins outside the Rose Bowl. A league spokesperson said the conference is exploring either an extension with the Motor City Bowl or adding a different bowl game.
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