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Orlando's bowl games just days apart next season

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Posted 6:24PM on Tuesday 2nd May 2006 ( 18 years ago )
ORLANDO, Fla. - Florida Citrus Sports says Orlando&#39;s two college bowl games will be played less than three days apart next season.<br> <br> The Champs Sports Bowl is scheduled for December 29th at Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium, moving two days closer to the New Year&#39;s Day game than it was a year ago. The stadium will then host the Capital One Bowl on January first, 2007.<br> <br> It will be the first time in bowl history that two games have been played so close together at the same venue.<br> <br> The Champs Sports Bowl will have tie-ins with the Atlantic Coast Conference and Big Ten. The game will feature the A-C-C&#39;s third post-B-C-S selection and the third or fourth post-B-C-S pick in the Big Ten, making it the only bowl to pit the conferences against each another.<br> <br> (Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)<br>

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