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The Pinstripe Bowl is a college football bowl game that is held at Yankee Stadium in the New York City borough of The Bronx. Sponsored by the New Era Cap Company since its first game, the bowl pairs the fourth-place team from The American against the seventh-place team from the Big 12 Conference, with each conference agreeing to a four-year contract that runs through the 2013 season. In the event the Big 12 lacks an eligible team, Notre Dame will receive its invitation. The inaugural game was played on December 30, 2010. ESPN has television and radio rights for the game through 2015.

The newly created bowl was announced by the New York Yankees' then-minority owner Hal Steinbrenner, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, Big East commissioner John Marinatto, and Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe at a Yankee Stadium press conference on September 30, 2009.

With the NCAA certification approved in April 2010, the Pinstripe Bowl is the 35th bowl on the calendar and the first in the New York City area since the Garden State Bowl at Giants Stadium in 1981 between Tennessee and Wisconsin and the first in New York City proper since the Gotham Bowl pitted Miami against Nebraska at the original Yankee Stadium in 1962.

The winner of the game is awarded the George M. Steinbrenner Trophy, named after the former owner of the New York Yankees.

Initially a matchup between the Big 12 and the Big East (which became The American), the matchup will pit an ACC team against a Big Ten team starting in 2014, the same year Rutgers University, the only FBS school in the NYC area, moves to the Big Ten from The American.

Game results

MVPs

Most appearances

Wins by conference

Naming and sponsorship

When the game was announced, Bronx Borough president Ruben Diaz Jr. joked, “If you’re looking for suggestions, maybe we should call it the Jeter Bowl.” It was unofficially referred to in the press as the Yankee Bowl, with some advocating the return of the name Gotham Bowl. Finally, on March 9, 2010, the game received its official designation as the Pinstripe Bowl, with the New Era Cap Company signing on as the title sponsor. This also includes the New York Yankees as the first MLB team to sponsor a NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision Bowl game. The logo for the Pinstripe Bowl invokes the frieze that surrounds Yankee Stadium, but does not contain pinstripes.

References

Notes

1. ^ "Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium on Dec 30". Yankees.com. 2009-09-30. Retrieved 2010-03-09.
2. ^ Mandel, Stewart (2009-09-29). "Yankees, Big East, Big 12 to announce Yankee Bowl formation". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 2009-09-29.
3. Bennett, Brian (2009-09-29). "Yankee Bowl will start in 2010". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2009-09-29.
4. Singer, Tom (2009-09-30). "Yankee Stadium to host bowl game". Yankees.com. Retrieved 2009-09-30.
5. "ESPN to Televise New Era Pinstripe Bowl from Yankee Stadium". ESPN. Retrieved 24 December 2012.
6. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-football/news/20130626/acc-adds-pinstripe-bowl/index.html
7. http://www.bigten.org/genrel/112012aaf.html

External links

• Official site

• College football bowls
• Pinstripe Bowl
• Sports in the Bronx