Aresco: Commissioners support adding marquee bowl

[October 27, 2012]  NEW YORK (AP) -- Big East Commissioner Mike Aresco says support for adding a bowl game to college football's new postseason system has not waned.

Earlier this week, a media report said the chances of a seventh game being added to the playoff rotation that starts in 2014 had decreased because of various concerns, ranging from the value of the game's television rights to where it will be played.

The original playoff had the national semifinals rotating among six major bowl games. Last month, the conference commissioners discussed expanding to the pool to seven games to give better access to the Big East, Mountain West, Conference USA , Sun Belt and Mid-American Conference.

Aresco on Friday said: "None of us had heard anything about the game being in any jeopardy."

[Associated Press; By RALPH D. RUSSO]

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