This year’s Sugar Bowl moves from Jan. 2, 2023 to Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022 w/a noon ET kickoff. Sugar Bowl will feature teams from SEC & Big 12

— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) February 18, 2022

gobears20 said:

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This year’s Sugar Bowl moves from Jan. 2, 2023 to Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022 w/a noon ET kickoff. Sugar Bowl will feature teams from SEC & Big 12

— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) February 18, 2022

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A P6 bowl game in New Orleans with an 11AM kickoff? This ain't the First Responder Bowl!!!

Jack Bauer said:

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gobears20 said:

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This year’s Sugar Bowl moves from Jan. 2, 2023 to Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022 w/a noon ET kickoff. Sugar Bowl will feature teams from SEC & Big 12

— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) February 18, 2022

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A P6 bowl game in New Orleans with an 11AM kickoff? This ain't the First Responder Bowl!!!

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For real. Though our Cotton Bowl disaster was a 11:30AM game.

Agreed. It's a top bowl and you play it at NOON???

Naturally it's set for an early hour. Putting the game in prime time might reduce the New Year's Eve traffic on Bourbon Street.

Don't the my rotate the start times for NY6 bowls from year to year, so no bowl is always stuck with the worst KO time?

Russell Gym said:

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Don't the my rotate the start times for NY6 bowls from year to year, so no bowl is always stuck with the worst KO time?

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Seems it has always gone Fiesta/Peach/Cotton--> Rose --> Sugar on NY day.

Rose always has to be late afternoon to highlight the sun setting in the West and Sugar has always been the night game.

The problem is caused this year by NYD being on a Sunday, which the NFL hogs and clogs with meaningless end of season games. So no bowl games on NYD of any kind. They used to push the NYD bowls back to Monday the 2nd (way back in the early 80s, that allowed me to go to the BU/OkSt Bluebonnet Bowl on New Years' Eve, drive to Dallas on the 1st, then see UT fumble away a change for a Natty against Georgia in the Cotton Bowl on the 2nd).


When are the playoff bowls (I'm guessing it's Peach and Fiesta this year)? What about the meaningless Hangover Bowls between the SEC and B1G usually played early in the day on NYD?

Edit: This past year Peach drew the black bean and was played on 12/30. Playoff bowls were afternoon/evening of NYE, and Fiesta got moved to the early slot on NYD (11am kickoff Phoenix time). So I guess this year it's Sugar's turn to get the crappy timeslot and Fiesta or Orange gets prime time.

whitetrash said:

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The problem is caused this year by NYD being on a Sunday, which the NFL hogs and clogs with meaningless end of season games. So no bowl games on NYD of any kind. They used to push the NYD bowls back to Monday the 2nd (way back in the early 80s, that allowed me to go to the BU/OkSt Bluebonnet Bowl on New Years' Eve, drive to Dallas on the 1st, then see UT fumble away a change for a Natty against Georgia in the Cotton Bowl on the 2nd).


When are the playoff bowls (I'm guessing it's Peach and Fiesta this year)? What about the meaningless Hangover Bowls between the SEC and B1G usually played early in the day on NYD?

Edit: This past year Peach drew the black bean and was played on 12/30. Playoff bowls were afternoon/evening of NYE, and Fiesta got moved to the early slot on NYD (11am kickoff Phoenix time). So I guess this year it's Sugar's turn to get the crappy timeslot and Fiesta or Orange gets prime time.

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The latest schedule for 2022-23 NY6 is:
I guess that's why the game is at 11AM if it precedes the 2 semi-final games.

Dec 30 - Orange
Dec 31 - Sugar*, Fiesta, Peach (Semi-finals)
Jan 2 - Rose, Cotton
Jan 9 - Championship Game in LA

The fact that BU really has a legitimate chance to repeat as B12 Champs, and play in the Sugar Bowl or even in the Playoffs, is phenomenal.

That was 2015. Everything is different now.