The bowl game that will debut at Yankee Stadium this year will be called the New Era Pinstripe Bowl and will be played on Dec. 30, the Big East announced Tuesday.
ESPN signed a six-year deal to televise the game.
The Pinstripe Bowl will pit a Big East team (essentially the fourth-place team…the BCS picks, then Champs Sports Bowl, then Meineke Car Care Bowl, then Pinstripe) against the Big 12 team with the sixth-best conference record after BCS selections.
It will be the first bowl game in the Bronx since the Gotham Bowl Dec. 15, 1962, when Nebraska beat Miami 36-34 at the original Yankee Stadium.
- Neill
