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NCAA Expected To Add Record 40th Bowl Game In 2015, Name To Be Announced

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Just because NCAA football will stage its first four-team playoff next season doesn't mean the bowl system is over. In fact, it's more alive (or dead, depending how you look at it) than ever after a record 40th game was added today, ESPN reported. It won't, however, be called the AARP "Over-The-Hill" Bowl. In fact, it's not clear at this point what it will be called. Since it's being organized and sponsored by the Orlando Sports Foundation, it could be called the Orlando Bowl. It might also be called the Cure Bowl, which was what the foundation intended to name it a few years ago as a cue to its greater goal of raising money for cancer, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

Most likely, we'll get an official name on Wednesday during the city of Orlando's scheduled press conference to announce the bowl.

The "Whatever It's Going To Be Called" Bowl is supposed to debut in 2015, meaning as of now, it would be the 40th bowl game that year. Most likely, it will at least retain that distinction, for bowl games have a habit of growing by the year. Last season, 35 games were played. One was not renewed (the Little Caesar's bowl, maybe because their pizza isn't as good as Dominoes), while five new games were added (and expected to be approved) for 2014:  Camellia Bowl in Montgomery, Ala. (MAC vs. Sun Belt); Detroit Bowl (ACC vs. Big Ten); Bahamas Bowl (rotation of AAC, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West and Sun Belt); Miami Beach Bowl (AAC vs. C-USA, MAC and Sun Belt); and Boca Raton Bowl (rotation of AAC, C-USA and MAC).

The Orlando Sports Foundation's bowl will feature two teams from the newly formed AAC conference (which debuted in basketball this past season and will debut in football this upcoming season) and the Sun Belt.

"It hasn't been a secret that the Sun Belt has indicated a desire to be involved with a fourth guaranteed game," Sun Belt commissioner Karl Benson told the Sentinel Monday. "I don't think it's been a secret that there's been an organization in Orlando that has attempted to launch a game."

The other three bowl games contractually tied to the conference are the aforementioned and newly formed Camellia Bowl as well as the New Orleans Bowl and the GoDaddy Bowl.

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