The matchup that should probably constitute the New Orleans Bowl will kick off 7.5 hours earlier than the Superdome’s first postseason football event of 2018, and about 650 miles southeast of Louisiana. That’s the Cure Bowl, to be clear, which will be played in Orlando at 1:30 p.m. ET on Saturday and pits Tulane against Louisiana in a rematch of the 2013 New Orleans Bowl.
That game will entail a nine-hour drive or a roughly $200 flight for any and all fans of the Green Wave and Ragin’ Cajuns who want to make the trip for a bowl between two teams that flirted with .