The 2020 Orange Bowl is now the 2019 Orange Bowl.
by G.K.Chesterton (2019-05-13 15:31:13)
Edited on 2019-05-13 15:32:07

The Orange Bowl, College Football Playoff and ESPN announced Monday the Capital One Orange Bowl to be played after the 2019 regular season (put that on a bowl pin) has been moved from Wednesday, Jan. 1 to Monday, Dec. 30.

Rather than make the Orange Bowl the lead-in to the Rose Bowl, the powers that be decided it’d be better to keep it a night game, instead making it a de facto Monday Night Football game. (There is no MNF game in Week 17 of the NFL season.) The Orange Bowl was the first to be played at night, beginning on Jan. 1, 1965, and has been played, at least partially, under the Miami night every year since then.

“The Capital One Orange Bowl was presented with a unique opportunity by our partners, including ESPN, Capital One, the ACC, Big Ten, SEC, Notre Dame, the Miami Dolphins and the CFP, to play this year’s game on Monday, December 30 in primetime,” Orange Bowl Committee president José C. Romano said in a statement. “With other bowl games planned for the early afternoon window on January 1, this move enables our game to stand alone as the only bowl game staged on Monday night, when fans are used to viewing football games. We are confident this traditional start time will be a positive for both the out of town and local fans who attend our game, as well as the television viewers across the country.”


Also:

The 2019-20 New Year’s Six schedule will now break down as follows:

Saturday, Dec. 28
Cotton Bowl (early afternoon)
Peach/Fiesta Bowl (CFP semifinal)
Peach/Fiesta Bowl (CFP semifinal)

Monday, Dec. 30
Orange Bowl (primetime)

Wednesday, Jan. 1
Bowl TBA (early afternoon)
Rose Bowl (mid-afternoon)
Sugar Bowl (primetime)





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