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Boise State Out of Arizona Bowl Due To COVID-19 Issues
Broncos unable to play in the Arizona Bowl
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COVID (likely) cancels Barstool Bowl
Boise State football will not be participating in the Barstool Sports Arizona Bowl due to COVID-19 issues within the program. The bowl game was to be played on New Year’s Eve and streaming on the sponsors website.
https://twitter.com/dennisdoddcbs/status/1475566515244212229
The Broncos players did get to go home before the bowl game so that is a real possibility as to how an outbreak came about from the team. Plus, the new Omicron variant is more contagious and is still causing fully vaccinated people to test positive and spread to others, even with little to no symptoms.
Boise State’s bowl history has been complicated the past few years. There is this year’s game not being played, the team opting for no bowl game last year when the pandemic was raging fierce, and the year before when the First Responders Bowl game never finished due to severe weather in the Dallas area.
https://twitter.com/MWCwire/status/1475564617195667460
As for what happens next?
The Barstool Bowl game undoubtedly be canceled (the jokes write themselves sometimes) and to say this was written without a grin would be false.
The Sun Bowl needs an opponent as the Miami Hurricanes were unable to travel and leave Washington State in El Paso and without an opponent.
Tuscon is not all that far from the Sun Bowl, so it would make too much sense for Central Michigan to take the four-hour or so drive to this new location.
https://twitter.com/JACarranco_/status/1475573064557641737
Oh! There also is the massive payout difference by going to the Sun Bowl over the Arizona Bowl which pays out $2.3 million per team while the Arizona Bowl is under $500,000 per team, so the choice is obvious for the Chips to change bowl games.
https://twitter.com/RossDellenger/status/1475564431186739206
Also to consider is that finding two new opponents for each bowl game is highly unlikely so it makes too much sense for Washington State to play Central Michigan, and choosing the Sun Bowl is the right move.
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