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A couple weeks ago we found out that college football would once again return to Wrigley Field, as Northwestern will play Wisconsin at the friendly confines in 2020. Now, there’s a report that signals more college football at the corner of Clark and Addison.
According to Brett McMurphy, a college football insider who used to work at ESPN and CBS Sports, Wrigley Field is a lock to host one of the new bowl games that the NCAA has recommended to add for the 2020 season.
Via the Chicago Sun-Times.
The NCAA’s competition committee recommended the addition of three new bowl games for the 2020 season, which means there would be a record 43 bowls and 65 percent of the 130 FBS schools will make it to a bowl game.
Wrigley Field along with Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, are “near locks” to be a part of the 2020 bowl game landscape, according to McMurphy.
The Chicago bowl will pin a Big Ten team against an ACC opponent, according to McMurphy, who also reported that the Big Ten is expected to cut ties with the San Francisco Bowl after 2019.
First of all, I won’t complain about more college football in December and early January, but as time goes on getting to a bowl game means less and less. But hey, more games, more revenue for the players, right? I mean schools and the NCAA.
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Anyway, here’s McMurphy’s full post.
Before you go on and complain about how having football at Wrigley Field is a disaster because of what happened between Northwestern and Illinois a few years ago, know this new detail.
In 2020, they’ll be able to play both directions because of the Wrigley Field renovations that allow them to cover the #Cubs dugout and remove the first four rows in part of the west side of the stadium #B1GCats pic.twitter.com/R4gXLmvVfz
— Madeline Kenney (@madkenney) June 5, 2018
Back in 2010, Northwestern and Illinois were forced to play going toward one end zone because there simply wasn’t enough room inside Wrigley Field. Tough look, but with the new renovations that problem has been solved.
Oh by the way, for that Northwestern game against Wisconsin in 2020, fans will maybe get to see the top QB in the 2017 class.
In case you missed it, the Wildcats announced the addition of Clemson transfer Hunter Johnson on Monday.
The former No. 1 ranked QB in the class of 2017 commits to Northwestern. Welcome to the family, @HunterPh413.
📰: https://t.co/s31jENWSaN#B1GCats pic.twitter.com/dXDU3sHPBH
— Northwestern Football (@NUFBFamily) June 11, 2018
Huge get for Pat Fitzgerald and Northwestern football.
