Big Ten to swap CapOne Bowl for Cotton?

Penn State whipped Texas 30-6 in the 1972 Cotton Bowl

The 2010 Cotton Bowl will be moving from it's ancient namesake in Dallas to the marvelous new Cowboys Stadium. Meanwhile, the $175 million renovation of Orlando's 73-year-old Citrus Bowl has stalled. Might the Big Ten look to switch its premier non-BCS bowl? Commissioner Jim Delany treaded very carefully in answering the question...

“I have to say we love our alignment. It’s been good to us. We’ve adjusted from time to time, and even when we’ve adjusted in the past it’s always difficult. We never really had a bad bowl relationship. It’s just whether or not (you) find better ones, whether you can improve your lot.

“We’ve been watching [the Citrus Bowl renovations] for a long time. We’ve been encouraging the city, the bowl, the Florida Citrus Association just to make progress, to move forward, because anybody that follows the college game, whether it’s in urban areas or on campus, facilities have been improving over the last 10, 15, 20 years. We’ve been encouraging that. That will be a factor. How big a factor? It’s to be determined.”

What if the Cotton Bowl (or another bowl) increased its payout and made overtures to the Big Ten?

“They become options if people indicate, ‘Hey, we’d like to talk.’”

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