FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The Fort Worth Bowl on Tuesday extended its agreement with Conference USA for four years, through the 2009 season.
The bowl earlier this year reached a deal with the Mountain West Conference for that league to provide a team for the game from the 2006-09 seasons.
C-USA has been part of the bowl since the game's inception in 2003. The third Fort Worth Bowl is scheduled Dec. 23 on the TCU campus, matching C-USA against the Big 12, which hasn't had enough bowl-eligible teams to fill its spot the past two years.
Fort Worth Bowl executive director Tom Starr said there is a provision in the new C-USA deal under which the Pacific-10 Conference would instead send a team to Fort Worth in 2007 if that league has a sixth bowl-eligible team.
C-USA commissioner Britton Banowsky said Tuesday that his conference also has commitments past this season with its other four bowl partners: the Liberty, GMAC, Hawaii and New Orleans bowls.