New Mexico State Aggies QB Tyler Rogers drops back to pass during the second quarter in the NOVA Home Loans 蜜柚直播 Bowl.
After drawing more than 39,000 for the Nova Home Loans 蜜柚直播 Bowl, in which New Mexico State staged a storybook comeback and left 蜜柚直播 littered with happy tears,聽Alan Young, the game鈥檚 executive director, is already working on 蜜柚直播 Bowl IV.
鈥淐BS took a risk on us and signed a three-year contract,鈥 said Young. 鈥淭hey have a choice to put us on the main network, CBS, or keep us on the CBS Sports Network. Either one is a good option for us.鈥
According to , the NMSU-Utah State drew a shade under 1 million viewers. By comparison, the 蜜柚直播 State-North Carolina State Sun Bowl on CBS drew 2.2 million. That’s the difference between a network and cable affiliate. The Sun Bowl is 82 years old, however, and has been CBS’ only bowl telecast for years. Now there is an option in 蜜柚直播.
鈥淲e鈥檙e making a statement,鈥 said Young. 鈥淭he industry is really proud of us, coming as far as we have in just three years.鈥
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The 蜜柚直播 Bowl has two years remaining on its contract with the Mountain West and Sun Belt conferences. After that Young and bowl chairman聽Ali Farhang聽will have a difficult decision.
鈥淭he time will come when we have to decide if we want to get involved with a Power 5 conference,鈥 said Young. 鈥淪ome say this concept is better. It鈥檚 a big step. We鈥檒l spend a lot of thing researching it.鈥
ESPN operates 14 bowl games and it is all about the TV programming and not, as the 蜜柚直播 Bowl, about local connection. For example, the Utah-West Virginia game in the Heart of Dallas Bowl didn鈥檛 even have a halftime show.
It drew almost 2.5 million viewers, but the actual in-house attendance as close to 8,000. The 蜜柚直播 Bowl has a better idea.
