Huskies to face Cocks
12/6/09
Connecticut got some great news today when they were awarded a spot in the PapaJohn's.com Bowl to be played January 2nd in Birmingham against the South Carolina Gamecock's of the SEC. Uconn's late three game winning streak took the Huskies from -- out of the bowls all together -- to a January date against a high profile coach from the best conference in the country.
Of the Big East schools Rutgers (very early bowl, vs CUSA) and South Florida (in Canada -- brrrr, vs MAC) received the less desired bowls, St Petersburg and International, respectively -- everyone else should be pleased. When the bowls reshuffle this offseason the folks in Providence must do a better job, the top four are solid, but after that it becomes a little less pleasing.
Cincinnati will play Florida in the BCS Sugar Bowl, West Virginia will face Florida State in Bowden's farewell at the Gator and Pitt will play UNC in Charlotte.
"We're excited with the opportunity to play against South Carolina, knowing they're an outstanding team from the SEC," UConn coach Randy Edsall said. "It gives us another opportunity to work with our young guys before we go down to Birmingham. It gives us another opportunity to play a game, which I think this team so richly deserves after being 7-5 and having gone through all the things that we went through this year."
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1 comments:
Anonymous
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December 7, 2009 at 10:08 AM
gotta love Rutgers getting hosed