Yankee Stadium to host college football games

What should a team do after constructing a billion dollar stadium, and facing falling revenue? The answer will always be host as many events as one can book. This is the situation that the New York Yankees find themselves in. They have a brand new billion dollar ball park, which has priced out many of their loyal baseball fans. While other MLB teams like the New York Mets, Boston Red Sox, and Philadelphia Phillies have turned to hosting concerts at their facilities, the Yankees are going in the direction of College Football.

The Yankees have signed a deal with the US Army Academy located in West Point, New York to play four games at their new stadium over the next few years. The inaugural game will be next year with Army hosting Notre Dame at new Yankee Stadium. That game is sure to draw a big crowd, and now the Yankees are set to announce that their new stadium will play host to a new College Bowl game starting in 2010.

This Bowl game is likely to be a contest between schools in the Big East, and the Big 12. While the College Bowl season is already crowded with fat too many games, and these conferences feature schools that are located far way from NYC, a bowl game in tone of the biggest media centers on this planet may just be successful.

The Yankees will be looking to feature Big East schools Pitt, Rutgers, Syracuse, or West Virginia and whichever Big 12 school that feel will draw the best in this bowl game. With that being said I think many sports fans are a little skeptical of this plan, there are already far too many bowl games, and featuring one at Yankee Stadium just isn’t that big of a deal.