Category: Press Releases

Click here to read the 2017 Bahamas Bowl Weekly Release – Week 5 – September 30 (PDF) THIS WEEKEND: The entire slate of Conference USA and MAC action will take place on Saturday. In C-USA, three conference games highlight the schedule, all division matchups. FIU (2-1, 1-0) will be the last FBS team to play…

Click here to read the 2017 Bahamas Bowl Weekly Release – Week 4 – September 23 (PDF) THIS WEEKEND: Saturday, there are 19 total games in Conference USA and the MAC, including three between the two conferences. C-USA has two league games on the schedule as UAB (2-1) goes to North Texas (1-2) in a…

Click here to read the 2017 Bahamas Bowl Weekly Release – Week 3 – September 15-16 (PDF) THIS WEEKEND: Week 3 gets underway on Friday night as Arizona visits UTEP. Saturday, Louisiana Tech visits WKU in a rematch of the 2016 Conference USA Championship Game, won by WKU 58-44, the highest scoring conference title game…

Click here to read the 2017 Bahamas Bowl Weekly Release – Week 2 – September 8-9 (PDF) HURRICANE IRMA: The Bahamas Bowl staff, ESPN Events and conference partners send out our best wishes and prayers to those affected in the Bahamas and the Caribbean by Hurricane Irma, and those still in harms way as it…

Bahamas Bowl 2016 Review/2017 Preview (PDF) The Bahamas Bowl and ESPN Events met with local partners in the Bahamas at the Atlants Bahamas on June 21 to discuss the 2016 game and preview the fourth-annual bowl to be played in Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium on Friday, Dec. 22, 2017 between Conference USA and the…

NASSAU, Bahamas – The fourth Bahamas Bowl has been set for Friday, Dec. 22, 2017 at 12:30 p.m. ET. The game, held in Nassau’s 15,000-seat Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium, will be broadcast in the United States for the fourth consecutive year by ESPN. For the second straight year, the game date falls at the…

Six student-athletes who played in the first three Popeyes Bahamas Bowls will get their opportunity to make NFL rosters after being selected in the 2017 NFL Draft, held April 27-29 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Three of the universities that participated in the Popeyes Bahamas Bowl – WKU (2014), Western Michigan (2015) and Eastern Michigan (2016) –…

One of the highly anticipated events of Popeyes Bahamas Bowl week is set for Wednesday, Dec. 21 as the third-annual Popeyes Bahamas Bowl Youth Football Leadership Clinic will take place from 2:00-4:30 pm at the Roscow A.L. Davies Field in Nassau. The clinic is free and open to boys and girls ages 7-13, and it…

Veteran ESPN SportsCenter anchor Steve Levy, former Texas head coach Mack Brown and sideline reporter Kaylee Hartung will return to call the 2016 Popeyes Bahamas Bowl between Eastern Michigan (7-5) and Old Dominion (9-3) for ESPN on Friday, Dec. 23 in Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium at 1 p.m. ET. Levy will call the play-by-play…

Eastern Michigan will play in a bowl game for the first time since 1987 as the Eagles accepted a bid to represent the Mid-American Conference in the 2016 Popeyes Bahamas Bowl on Friday, Dec. 23 in Nassau’s Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium. The Eagles will face Old Dominion (9-3) in a MAC vs. Conference USA…