AUTONATION CURE BOWL Television National Radio Tulane Radio THE GAME
TULANE GREEN WAVE
vs.
LOUISIANA RAGIN’ CAJUNS
Saturday, Dec. 15
1:30 p.m. ET
Camping World Stadium
(60,219/AstroTurf GameDay Grass 3D)
Orlando, Florida
CBS Sports Network
Carter Blackburn, Aaron Taylor and Jenny Dell
Touchdown Radio
J.P. Shadrick, Gino Torretta and Jamie Seh
WODT-AM 1280 (flagship)
The AutoNation Cure Bowl will be played for the fourth time in 2018 … The bowl pairs teams from the American Athletic Conference and the Sun Belt, though this year’s game will mark The American’s second appearance in the game … The bowl is estimated to have an annual economic impact of $20 million on the Orlando community … Proceeds from the Cure Bowl go directly toward breast cancer research … The only previous appearance by an American Athletic Conference team in the Cure Bowl was in 2016, when UCF fell to Arkansas State … Tulane and Louisiana will meet for the 29th time with this year’s matchup … The Green Wave holds a 22-6 series lead … Each of the 28 previous meetings was played in the state of Louisiana … The last meeting was in 2016, when Tulane was a 41-39 winner in four overtimes in what stands as the longest game for an American Athletic Conference team in the league’s six-year history … The schools have met once in their respective bowl histories — a 24-21 win by Louisiana in the 2016 New Orleans Bowl … Tulane and Louisiana have a home-and-home regular-season series scheduled for the 2024 (in Lafayette) and 2027 (in New Orleans) seasons.
AutoNation Cure Bowl Preview: Tulane Faces Louisiana
