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JOEL I. FERGUSON BRIAN BRESLIN DIANNE BYRUM MITCH LYONS CHAIRMAN VICE CHAIRMAN ONONDAGA ROCKFORD LANSING ALTO STAFF COACHING 2013 RECAP

BRIAN MOSALLAM FAYLENE OWEN GEORGE PERLES DIANN WOODARD DEARBORN EAST LANSING EAST LANSING BROWNSTOWN TOWNSHIP For biographical information, visit http://trustees.msu.edu SPARTAN RECORDS

Lou Anna K. Simon, the 20th president of Michigan State organization working to ensure U.S. prosperity. She LOU ANNA K. SIMON, PH.D. University, leads the university’s work to advance the serves as chair of the National Security Higher Education PRESIDENT common good in Michigan and around the world. An Advisory Board, a group of presidents and chancellors MSU graduate, she began her career at Michigan State of several prominent U.S. universities that consults HISTORY SPARTAN MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY after earning her doctorate in 1974. From there, she regularly with national agencies responsible for security, moved into a variety of administrative roles, including intelligence, and law enforcement. She also serves as assistant provost for general academic administration, chair of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s associate provost, and provost and vice president for executive committee, the association’s overarching academic affairs. The MSU Board of Trustees appointed governing panel. her president in January 2005. Simon’s resolute commitment to advancing Michigan’s As president, Simon has engaged Michigan State in economic future has been a hallmark of her presidency.

AWARDS a strategic and transformative journey to adapt the She serves on the board of directors of Business Leaders HONORS & principles of the land-grant tradition to 21st-century for Michigan and the Detroit Branch of the Federal challenges. She has expanded MSU’s reach in the Reserve Bank of Chicago. In the area of international state and around the world by focusing the university’s engagement, Simon is a member of the executive strengths on solutions that enhance and protect quality committee of the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty of life: clean and affordable energy, access to education, in Africa. safe and plentiful food, and health care. She outlined Research at Michigan State University refl ects Simon’s

BOWL these commitments and the philosophy driving them commitment to advancing knowledge and discovery to HISTORY in her monograph, Embracing the World Grant Ideal: improve quality of life. Under her leadership, MSU has Affi rming the Morrill Act for a Twenty-fi rst-century Global expanded its research in, among other areas, biofuels Society. and green energy, medicine and medical technology, Simon’s key initiatives, particularly in economic physics and rare isotopes, safe water, and agriculture development and international engagement, refl ect her to address world hunger. With the support of external commitment to applying knowledge to benefi t society funding now exceeding $500 million annually, Simon is

THE and further the global common good. Simon is a member helping ensure that MSU makes a signifi cant positive of the American Council on Education and the Council difference locally and globally.

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204 MICHIGAN STATE FOOTBALL • MSUSPARTANS.COM ATHLETICS DIRECTOR MARK HOLLIS

polls, defeated No. 5 Stanford in the 100th Rose Bowl Game, In 2011-12, MSU won three Big Ten Championships and topped No. 2 Ohio State in the Big Ten Championship (women’s cross country, men’s basketball and women’s golf)

Game. In addition to winning the Big Ten Tournament, fi eld and the football team won the 2011 Big Ten Legends Division OUTLOOK hockey advanced to the Elite Eight, along with men’s soccer, title and played in the inaugural Big Ten Championship 2014 and volleyball reached the regional round of the NCAA Game. The Spartans fi nished ranked No. 10 in the fi nal USA Tournament for the second year in a row. MSU maintained TODAY Coaches Poll after winning 11 games, including a its excellence in women’s cross country and women’s golf, as dramatic 33-30 triple-overtime victory over Georgia in the both programs captured their third Big Ten title in four years. 2012 Outback Bowl. The men’s basketball team captured On the hardwood, men’s basketball won its fourth Big Ten a share of the conference regular-season championship, Tournament title and reached the Elite Eight for the eighth won the 2012 Big Ten Tournament title, and advanced to time in the past 16 years, while the women’s team claimed its the NCAA Sweet 16. Overall, nine sports participated in their

second Big Ten regular-season championship in four years respective team NCAA Championships, while individuals SPARTANS and received its sixth consecutive NCAA bid. competed in fi ve more NCAA Championships. The Spartans 2014 During Hollis’ tenure, Michigan State student-athletes have fi nished 34th overall in the 2011-12 Directors’ Cup standings. excelled not only in competition, but in the classroom as well. Michigan State had a banner year in 2010-11, winning fi ve Big For seven consecutive semesters, Spartan student-athletes Ten Championships. The football team won a then school- have posted better than a 3.0 cumulative grade-point average. record 11 games and claimed the program’s seventh Big Nearly 400 student-athletes (398) posted a cumulative GPA Ten Championship, the baseball team won its fi rst Big Ten above 3.0 in the spring semester of 2014, marking the title since 1979, while the women’s cross country, women’s second-highest total in the history of the department, and basketball and women’s golf teams also won conference COACHING 17 teams also reached that mark. Additionally, 268 student- championships. In 2009-10, the men’s basketball team

“We gather and engage our community to teach, support and STAFF celebrate our student-athletes in their quest for excellence.” athletes earned Academic All-Big Ten honors throughout the advanced to the Final Four for the sixth time in the last 12 2013-14 academic year, including 59 Big Ten Distinguished years and won its second-straight Big Ten regular-season This is the vision Michigan State Athletics Director Mark Scholars (min. 3.7 GPA). In the spring of 2012, the athletics title, and fi eld hockey captured both the Big Ten regular- Hollis has for Spartan Athletics. Hollis, who was named department compiled the highest grade-point average in season and tournament championships. the 2012 Athletic Director of the Year by Street & Smith’s program history with a 3.0644. The graduation success rate One of Hollis’ major goals upon becoming athletics director SportsBusiness Journal/Daily, is in his seventh year leading under Hollis is a remarkable 87 percent. the MSU Athletics Department. He offi cially assumed the role was accomplished in 2010 when he unveiled the new of MSU’s 18th athletics director on Jan. 1, 2008, succeeding Spartan athletic facilities have been upgraded at an brand and identity program for the athletics department. All Ron Mason. unprecedented rate the past decade – including more than of Michigan State’s uniforms now incorporate consistent

$100 million at Spartan Stadium – and will only continue to use of colors, logos, lettering and numerals along with RECAP Hollis has more than 25 years of athletics administration improve under Hollis. A $24.5 million project to the north standardization for logos. 2013 experience, either at the school or conference level. His well- end of Spartan Stadium was completed in August 2014 that rounded background has led to his knowledge of all areas In Hollis’ fi rst full season as athletics director in 2008-09, features a two-story, 50,000-square-foot addition as well as Michigan State enjoyed one of its most successful years of within an athletics department, including marketing, fi nancial an entrance plaza, renovated gates, and additional restrooms administration, television negotiations, fund-raising, game the decade with a 27th-place fi nish in the Directors’ Cup, and concessions. The building includes new locker rooms the best showing for the department since 2003 and the operations, facility management, personnel policy, corporate for teams, coaches and offi cials, a media center, and an interaction, sports management and public relations. third highest in the department’s history. Ten teams earned engagement center for all varsity sports. Former All-America bids to their respective NCAA Championships, led by men’s RECORDS A 1985 MSU graduate, Hollis returned to his alma mater in offensive lineman Flozell Adams provided a leadership gift of basketball, which reached the national title game against SPARTAN 1995. Since then, he has been a critical component of the $1.5 million for MSU’s new locker room, which is named in North Carolina while also winning the Big Ten regular-season athletic department executive management staff, helping honor of his later mother, Rachel Adams. Prior to the 2012 championship. guide the department through short- and long-range plans. season, $10 million scoreboards, totaling 13,300-square-feet, In addition, Hollis is chair of the NCAA Division I Amateurism were installed in the north and south end zones, giving MSU Hollis was named athletics director-designate on Sept. 12, Cabinet, a member of the NCAA’s Men’s Basketball Issues one of the top video board systems in the nation. 2007, and teamed with Mason in the transition throughout the fall of 2007. Prior to his offi cial appointment as athletics Committee, and a member of the Division I Men’s Basketball The Spartans moved into one of the nation’s fi nest football Committee. director, Hollis played a lead role in two signifi cant head facilities in August 2008, as a $15 million expansion and coaching searches during the 2006-07 year. He spearheaded Since his offi cial appointment as athletics director began in renovation project for the Duffy Daugherty Football Building the effort to hire Mark Dantonio as football coach, which SPARTAN 2008, the Spartans have won 25 Big Ten Championships was completed. MSU alumni Robert and Julie Skandalaris has resulted in a school-record seven consecutive bowl HISTORY (regular season and tournament), appeared in two Final of Bloomfi eld Hills, Michigan, donated $5 million as the lead appearances, two Big Ten Championships (2010, 2013) and Fours and six bowl games, and fi nished in the top 40 of the gift for the facility expansion and upgrade. The Skandalaris a Rose Bowl Championship (2014). He also provided major Learfi eld Sports Directors’ Cup fi ve times. In addition, during Football Center includes team, staff and position meeting assistance in the hiring of women’s basketball coach Suzy Hollis’ tenure as an administrator at MSU, the Spartans rooms, coaches’ offi ces and a hall of history. In addition, an Merchant in the spring of 2007, who led the Spartans to the have appeared in 17 consecutive men’s basketball NCAA expanded weight room was fi nished in September 2008 that Sweet 16 in 2009 and has brought MSU to six-straight NCAA Tournaments - the longest current streak among Big Ten increased the facility in size from 9,000 to 16,500-square feet. Tournaments. Hollis’ fi rst hire as athletics director arrived schools and the third longest in the nation - and six Final Also in 2008, the men’s and women’s soccer programs on July 2, 2008, when he tabbed Jake Boss Jr. to direct the

Fours. opened DeMartin Stadium, a state-of-the-art 2,500-seat Spartan baseball program; in just three seasons, Boss won a HONORS & AWARDS Hollis is credited with developing some of college athletics’ facility that enables MSU to host conference and national Big Ten title in 2011, the fi rst for the program in 32 years, then most innovative events. It was his vision that led to Michigan tournaments. The baseball program played its inaugural followed in 2012 by guiding MSU to the NCAA Tournament. State playing North Carolina in November 2011 in the fi rst season in McLane Baseball Stadium in 2009 following a On Oct. 13, 2005, Michigan State University and WJR - 760 basketball game to be played on the fl ight deck of an aircraft $4 million donation to the 2,500-seat ballpark by former AM announced a fi ve-year agreement to carry Spartan football carrier. In 2003, Hollis was the architect of the “BasketBowl,” Houston Astros owner Drayton McLane Jr. In 2011, with the and men’s basketball games, along with coaches’ radio which established a then-world record crowd of 78,129 who help of a $1 million gift by alumnus Ambassador Peter F. shows. The successful partnership led to the announcement witnessed the Michigan State-Kentucky game at Detroit’s Secchia – the largest cash (outright) gift received by an MSU on Jan. 19, 2010, of a 10-year extension through 2020. Hollis Ford Field. The concept, which involves placing the court in women’s intercollegiate sports program – Secchia Stadium, played a leading role in fi nding MSU athletics a home on the the center of a football stadium, has been used at the last six a 1,100-seat facility located at Old College Field, opened for 50,000-watt Detroit radio station, known as the “Great Voice HISTORY

NCAA Final Fours. In 2001, Hollis helped mastermind the the softball program. of the Great Lakes.” The agreement has benefi ted more BOWL Michigan State-Michigan outdoor hockey game that attracted On the playing fi eld in 2012-13, Michigan State ranked 30th than just athletics as WJR regularly promotes the academic a then-world record crowd of 74,554 in Spartan Stadium. in the Directors’ Cup standings. In the fall, the football team accomplishments of the university in addition to broadcasting Future events Hollis designed include a 16-team men’s appeared in its sixth consecutive bowl game with a win over sporting events. college basketball tournament with Nike-sponsored schools TCU in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl, men’s soccer won Prior to returning to Michigan State, Hollis spent two years at in Portland, Oregon, in November 2017 to celebrate Nike the Big Ten Tournament title, volleyball advanced to the the University of Pittsburgh as assistant and associate athletic President Phil Knight’s 80th birthday, and a four-team, Sweet 16, and the men’s and women’s cross country teams director. Before his stint at Pitt, Hollis worked for the Western round-robin men’s college basketball barnstorming tour in reached the NCAA Championships. Among the winter sports, Athletic Conference. He joined the WAC as an administrative UNIVERSITY December 2018 featuring MSU, Florida, North Carolina and the men’s basketball team advanced to the Sweet 16 for assistant immediately after college. Two years later, he was the 11th time in the past 16 years, the women’s basketball Texas in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. appointed assistant to the commissioner and soon thereafter THE team earned an NCAA Tournament bid for the fi fth-straight Fueled by six Big Ten Championships (regular season and was promoted to assistant commissioner. season, and two Spartans earned national runner-up honors tournament), which tied the department record, Michigan at the NCAA Track and Field Indoor Championships. The Hollis earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in communication State placed 29th in the 2013-14 Learfi eld Sports Directors’ achievements continued in the spring, as men’s tennis from Michigan State in 1985, where he served as a basketball Cup standings, tied for the fourth best in department history received its fi rst-ever bid for the NCAA Championships, team manager under Jud Heathcote. In 1992, he earned and second highest under Hollis. Led by the Big Ten and women’s golf placed a school-record ninth at the NCAA his MBA in business administration from the University of Rose Bowl Championship football team, the Spartans closed Championships, and women’s track and fi eld placed 18th at Colorado. He and his wife Nancy, have a daughter, Katy, and the fall season at No. 2 in the Directors’ Cup. MSU won the NCAA Championships. two sons, T.R. and Michael. a school-record 13 games, fi nished No. 3 in both national

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Spartan Stadium is in its 91st season as home to Michigan State football. Since its opening Season-ticket sales have topped the 60,000 mark six times in Spartan football history, with in 1923, Michigan State has won 70 percent of its games played in Spartan Stadium. The an all-time record 63,831 season tickets purchased in 2012. Spartans hosted their 500th game at Spartan Stadium on Oct. 12, 2013, against Indiana on A series of projects paralleling the Spartans’ rise to national football prominence enlarged Homecoming. the steel-and-concrete facility from its original 14,000 seats in 1923 to its present size. Spartan Stadium represents a tribute to Michigan State’s football past and a vote of The fi rst came in 1935, the year in which the stadium was offi cially named Macklin Field, 2014 confi dence in its future. In just the past two years, more than $34 million has been committed boosting the capacity to 26,000. The 1948 enlargement raised the total to 51,000.

OUTLOOK to upgrading the 91-year-old facility to continually enhance the gameday atmosphere. After 9,000 new seats upped the capacity to 60,000 in 1956, the upper decks were added to In June 2013, the Michigan State Board of Trustees approved a $24.5 million project to the the east and west stands in 1957, bringing the capacity to 76,000. It also became Spartan north end of Spartan Stadium that opened in August 2014. The new structure features a Stadium that year. Renovations during the summer of 1994 improved sightlines and comfort two-story, 50,000-square-foot addition as well as an entrance plaza, renovated gates, and for fans, while reducing the capacity to 72,027. additional restrooms and concessions. The building includes new locker rooms for teams, coaches and offi cials, including a 4,500-square-foot home locker room and a 700-square-foot On Oct. 6, 2001, Spartan Stadium added another chapter to its storied history as a then home training room, in addition to a 3,600-square-foot media center and a 4,000-square- world-record crowd of 74,554 attended the MSU-Michigan outdoor hockey game. 2014 foot engagement center for all varsity sports. Former All-America offensive lineman Flozell In 1998, Spartan Stadium celebrated its 75th anniversary plus it reached another milestone

SPARTANS Adams provided a leadership gift of $1.5 million for MSU’s new locker room, which is named that season when it played host to its 400th game, a 29-5 MSU victory over Northwestern in honor of his later mother, Rachel Adams. on Oct. 31. Prior to the 2012 season, new high-def Panasonic video screens and scoreboards as well as Michigan State has compiled a 343-147-13 record (.695) since taking up residency in a new sound system were installed in Spartan Stadium. The new scoreboard/video screen Spartan Stadium (formerly Macklin Field) in 1923. The Spartans have gone undefeated at in the south end zone is 5,300-square feet, compared to its predecessor that measured just home 19 times since the stadium opened in 1923, including three times under current MSU 567-square feet (installed in 1998). The top of the new south end zone structure reaches head coach Mark Dantonio (2010, 2011, 2013). In addition, Michigan State has suffered only 130 feet. In addition, two new video boards as well as an LED ribbon board were added one home loss during a season 28 times. Only 10 times in the history of the stadium have STAFF to the north end zone. The LED ribbon board covers 4,500 square feet (450-feet long and the Spartans experienced a losing record at home. COACHING 10-feet high). Combined, the south and north video screens/scoreboards total 13,300-square With its 49-14 victory over No. 4 Wisconsin in the 2004 home fi nale, Michigan State recorded feet. The $10 million project replaced a 14-year-old scoreboard, message board and audio its 300th win in Spartan Stadium. system. In July 2014, ESPN named Spartan Stadium’s south end zone scoreboard among the Top 10 in the nation at No. 9. Michigan State’s longest home winning streak at Spartan Stadium is 19 games from Oct. 14, 1950, through Nov. 21, 1953. A $64 million expansion project completed prior to the start of the 2005 football season featured the addition of nearly 3,000 seats, including 24 suites and a 193-seat press box, 2013

RECAP bringing the current stadium capacity to 75,005. “The Spartan” statue was relocated to the atrium of the new structure. The 200,000-square-foot addition also houses the MSU Alumni Association, University Development and other units. The Michigan State Board of Trustees approved the major addition and expansion project of Spartan Stadium in September 2003. Barton Malow/Clark served as the construction manager for the Spartan Stadium expansion project, with HNTB providing architectural services. Following the June 26, 2011, U2 “360º” concert, the entire playing surface in Spartan Stadium had to be replaced. The new playing surface, planted in April 2010 at Graff’s Turf Farms in SPARTAN RECORDS Fort Morgan, Colorado, is comprised of a blend of four varieties of Kentucky bluegrass. The installation of the new sod, transported to Spartan Stadium in 26 refrigerator trucks, took three days (July 12-15). Spartan Stadium, which offi cially opened in 1923 at its current location, featured a natural grass playing surface until artifi cial turf was installed in 1969. The stadium returned to natural grass for the 2002 season. In 2005, the natural grass playing surface in Spartan Stadium earned Field of the Year honors from the Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA). HISTORY SPARTAN Prior to the 2002 season, ESPN.com’s Mel Kiper Jr. ranked Spartan Stadium No. 8 on his list of the nation’s most scenic venues. Natural grass returned to Spartan Stadium in 2002 after a 33-year absence, with the installation of a modular fi eld. The playing surface, planted in May of 2001 at MSU’s Hancock Turfgrass Research Center, was comprised of a blend of nine varieties of Kentucky bluegrass. The original switch from natural grass to artifi cial turf came in time for the 1969 TOP 10 CROWDS AT SPARTAN STADIUM ______season. Att...... Opponent ...... Year

AWARDS Since 1957, capacity crowds have attended 161 games in Spartan Stadium, including the

HONORS & 80,401 ...... Notre Dame ...... 1990 single-game record 80,401 fans who witnessed MSU’s 20-19 loss to top-ranked Notre Dame on Sept. 22, 1990. The Spartans have ranked among the NCAA’s Top 25 in attendance 80,383 ...... Ohio State ...... 1975 each of the last 58 seasons, including 20th in 2013, averaging 72,328 fans per game. The 80,193 ...... Notre Dame ...... 2006 Spartans ranked 19th in the NCAA in total attendance in 2013 as 506,294 fans went through 80,157 ...... Michigan ...... 1991 the turnstiles for seven home games, including a season-high 76,306 vs. Michigan on Nov. 2. 80,093 ...... Michigan ...... 1971 80,011 ...... Notre Dame ...... 1966

BOWL 79,895 ...... Notre Dame ...... 1986 HISTORY 79,776 ...... Michigan ...... 1975 79,687 ...... Michigan ...... 1997 79,561 ...... Purdue ...... 1979

ALL-TIME MSU FOOTBALL SEASON-TICKET SALES ______Rank ...... Season ...... Tickets Sold THE 1...... 2012 ...... 63,831 2...... 2000 ...... 61,479 UNIVERSITY 3...... 2006 ...... 61,227 4...... 2001 ...... 61,198 5...... 2005 ...... 60,692

206 MICHIGAN STATE FOOTBALL • MSUSPARTANS.COM 2014 BIG TEN COMPOSITE SCHEDULE OUTLOOK 2014

Thursday, Aug. 28 Saturday, Sept. 27 Saturday, Nov. 8 SPARTANS Eastern Illinois at MINNESOTA ILLINOIS at NEBRASKA IOWA at MINNESOTA 2014 RUTGERS at Washington State IOWA at PURDUE MICHIGAN at NORTHWESTERN MARYLAND at INDIANA OHIO STATE at MICHIGAN STATE Friday, Aug. 29 MINNESOTA at MICHIGAN PENN STATE at INDIANA Jacksonville State at MICHIGAN STATE NORTHWESTERN at PENN STATE WISCONSIN at PURDUE Wyoming at MICHIGAN STATE Saturday, Aug. 30 Cincinnati at OHIO STATE Saturday, Nov. 15 Youngstown State at ILLINOIS Tulane at RUTGERS INDIANA at RUTGERS COACHING Indiana State at INDIANA USF at WISCONSIN IOWA at ILLINOIS STAFF Northern Iowa at IOWA MICHIGAN STATE at MARYLAND James Madison at MARYLAND Saturday, Oct. 4 NEBRASKA at WISCONSIN Appalachian State at MICHIGAN MICHIGAN at RUTGERS OHIO STATE at MINNESOTA Florida Atlantic at NEBRASKA NEBRASKA at MICHIGAN STATE NORTHWESTERN at Notre Dame California at NORTHWESTERN OHIO STATE at MARYLAND Temple at PENN STATE OHIO STATE vs. Navy [1] PURDUE at ILLINOIS PENN STATE vs. UCF [2] WISCONSIN at NORTHWESTERN Saturday, Nov. 22 RECAP Western Michigan at PURDUE North Texas at INDIANA INDIANA at OHIO STATE 2013 WISCONSIN vs. LSU [3] MARYLAND at MICHIGAN Saturday, Oct. 11 MINNESOTA at NEBRASKA Saturday, Sept. 6 ILLINOIS at WISCONSIN NORTHWESTERN at PURDUE Western Kentucky at ILLINOIS INDIANA at IOWA PENN STATE at ILLINOIS Ball State at IOWA MICHIGAN STATE at PURDUE RUTGERS at MICHIGAN STATE MARYLAND at USF NORTHWESTERN at MINNESOTA WISCONSIN at IOWA RECORDS MICHIGAN at Notre Dame PENN STATE at MICHIGAN SPARTAN MICHIGAN STATE at Oregon Friday, Nov. 28 Middle Tennessee State at MINNESOTA Saturday, Oct. 18 NEBRASKA at IOWA McNeese State at NEBRASKA IOWA at MARYLAND Northern Illinois at NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN STATE at INDIANA Saturday, Nov. 29 Virginia Tech at OHIO STATE NEBRASKA at NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS at NORTHWESTERN Akron at PENN STATE PURDUE at MINNESOTA MICHIGAN at OHIO STATE

Central Michigan at PURDUE RUTGERS at OHIO STATE MICHIGAN STATE at PENN STATE SPARTAN HISTORY Howard at RUTGERS MINNESOTA at WISCONSIN Western Illinois at WISCONSIN Saturday, Oct. 25 PURDUE at INDIANA MARYLAND at WISCONSIN RUTGERS at MARYLAND Saturday, Sept. 13 MICHIGAN at MICHIGAN STATE PENN STATE at RUTGERS MINNESOTA at ILLINOIS Saturday, Dec. 6 ILLINOIS at Washington OHIO STATE at PENN STATE Big Ten Championship Game [4] INDIANA at Bowling Green RUTGERS at NEBRASKA HONORS &

Iowa State at IOWA AWARDS West Virginia at MARYLAND Saturday, Nov. 1 [1] - M&T Bank Stadium, Baltimore, Md. Miami (Ohio) at MICHIGAN ILLINOIS at OHIO STATE [2] - Croke Park Stadium, Dublin, Ireland MINNESOTA at TCU INDIANA at MICHIGAN [3] - Reliant Stadium, Houston, Texas NEBRASKA at Fresno State MARYLAND at PENN STATE Kent State at OHIO STATE NORTHWESTERN at IOWA [4] - Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Ind PURDUE vs. Notre Dame [4] PURDUE at NEBRASKA WISCONSIN at RUTGERS Saturday, Sept. 20 HISTORY Texas State at ILLINOIS BOWL INDIANA at Missouri IOWA at Pittsburgh MARYLAND at Syracuse Utah at MICHIGAN Eastern Michigan at MICHIGAN STATE

San Jose State at MINNESOTA UNIVERSITY Miami (Fla.) at NEBRASKA Western Illinois at NORTHWESTERN THE Massachusetts at PENN STATE Southern Illinois at PURDUE RUTGERS at Navy Bowling Green at WISCONSIN

Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the Indianapolis Colts, will host the 2014 Big Ten Championship Game on Saturday, Dec. 6.

2014 ROSE BOWL CHAMPIONS • 2013 BIG TEN CHAMPIONS 207 BOWL INFORMATION/SCHEDULE College Football Playoff comprise the selection committee. The group will meet in BIG TEN BOWL SCHEDULE Coming in 2014-15 person several times a year. On June 26, 2012, the BCS HEART OF DALLAS BOWL Presidential Oversight Com- Selection Committee Responsibilities DEC. 26, 2014 | 1 P.M. EST mittee agreed to launch a • Select the top four teams for the playoff, rank them and BIG TEN VS. CONFERENCE USA four-team playoff beginning assign them to semifi nal sites. ESPN 2014 with the 2014-15 season. The • Rank the next group of teams to play in other New DALLAS, TEXAS OUTLOOK format is simple: the best four Year’s bowls if berths are available. teams, two semifi nals played • Select the highest-ranked champion from the fi ve con- COTTON BOWL (92,1000) in bowl games and a champi- ferences without New Year’s bowl contracts. onship game played in a differ- • Assign teams to New Year’s bowls DETROIT LIONS BOWL - Create competitive matchups ent city each year. It’s the best DEC. 26, 2014 | 4:30 P.M. EST of all worlds and the biggest - Attempt to avoid rematches of regular-season innovation in the sport in de- games and repeat appearances BIG TEN VS. ACC cades. The new format will continue at least 12 years, - Consider geography ESPN 2014 through the 2025-26 season. DETROIT, MICH. FORD FIELD (65,000) SPARTANS Participants in the Orange, Rose and Sugar Bowls The semifi nals will be rotated among six bowl games Both participants in these three bowls are contracted and will be played either New Year’s Eve or New Year’s outside the playoff arrangement (Big Ten and Pac-12 Day. The championship game, to be managed by the 10 to Rose Bowl; SEC and Big 12 to Sugar Bowl; ACC to NEW ERA PINSTRIPE BOWL conferences and rotated among neutral sites every year, Orange Bowl against a contracted opponent). If a confer- DEC. 27, 2014 | 4:30 P.M. EST will be played on a Monday at least six days after the last ence champion qualifi es for the playoff, then the bowl will BIG TEN VS. ACC semifi nal game. choose a replacement from that conference. When those ESPN bowls host the semifi nals and their contracted champi- NEW YORK, N.Y. STAFF The Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl have been chosen ons do not qualify, then the displaced champion(s) will YANKEE STADIUM (52,325)

COACHING to host the fi rst national semifi nals, which will pair No. 1 play in the other New Year’s bowls. versus No. 4 and No. 2 versus No. 3 on Jan. 1, 2015. The winners of those two games will face off in the fi rst Participants in the New Year’s Bowls (Fiesta, Cotton, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY championship game of the playoff era on Monday, Jan. Atlanta) HOLIDAY BOWL 12, 2015, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. • Displaced conference champions and the top-ranked DEC. 27, 2014 | 8 P.M. EST champion from a non-contract conference. BIG TEN VS. PAC-12 • Highest-ranked available teams will fi ll any other berths. ESPN Every Game Counts SAN DIEGO, CALIF.

2013 The new playoff preserves the excitement and signifi - • The selection committee will make the pairings. QUALCOMM STADIUM (71,294) RECAP cance of college football’s unique regular season where every game counts. College Football Playoff Schedule (through 2016-17) FRANKLIN AMERICAN The Best Four Teams 2014-15 MORTGAGE MUSIC CITY BOWL The selection committee will choose the four teams for Dec. 31: Fiesta, Orange, Peach DEC. 30, 2014 | 3 P.M. EST the playoff based on body of work, strength of sched- Jan. 1: Cotton, Rose (Semifi nal), Sugar (Semifi nal) ACC/BIG TEN VS. SEC Jan. 12: Championship (Arlington, Texas) ESPN ule, head-to-head results, comparison of results against NASHVILLE, TENN. common opponents, championships won and other fac- LP FIELD (68,798) tors. 2015-16 Dec. 31: Cotton (Semifi nal), Orange (Semifi nal), Peach SPARTAN RECORDS A New Year’s Spectacular Jan. 1: Fiesta, Rose, Sugar SAN FRANCISCO BOWL Fans will enjoy back-to-back tripleheaders. Two semifi - Jan. 11: Championship (Glendale, Arizona) DEC. 30, 2014 | 10 P.M. EST nals and four other premier bowl games will be played BIG TEN VS. PAC-12 on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Those holidays 2016-17 ESPN will belong to college football. Semifi nal games will rotate Dec. 31: Fiesta (Semifi nal), Orange, Peach (Semifi nal) SANTA CLARA, CALIF. among six different bowls, extending the experience to Jan. 2: Cotton, Rose, Sugar LEVI’S STADIUM (80,000) more fans. Jan. 9: Championship (Tampa, Florida) HISTORY SPARTAN Site Selection COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF ORANGE BOWL The Management Committee will select cities to host the DEC. 31, 2014 | 8:30 P.M. EST National Championship Game. A city can host a bowl SCHEDULE ACC CHAMP/AT-LARGE VS. BIG game and the championship game in the same year. A TEN/SEC/NOTRE DAME city cannot, however, host a semifi nal and championship NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ESPN game in the same year. JAN. 12, 2015 | 8:30 P.M. EST MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. SUN LIFE STADIUM (72,230) ESPN Universal Access Every FBS team will have equal access to the playoff ARLINGTON, TEXAS AWARDS based on its performance. No team will qualify automati- CAPITAL ONE BOWL HONORS & AT&T STADIUM (80,000) cally. JAN. 1, 2015 | 1 P.M. EST BIG TEN VS. SEC More Revenue ABC The popularity of the new format will increase revenue ORLANDO, FLA. for all conferences and independent institutions. PLAYOFF SEMIFINAL CITRUS BOWL (65,438) ROSE BOWL GAME Conferences Manage the Event JAN. 1, 2015 | 5 P.M. EST BOWL The FBS conferences will manage the College Football OUTBACK BOWL HISTORY Playoff. All 10 conferences are members of the new en- ESPN JAN. 1, 2015 | 1 P.M. EST tity - CFP Administration, LLC. University presidents and BIG TEN VS. SEC chancellors from all 10 conferences and Notre Dame PASADENA, CALIF. ESPN form the Board of Managers and will govern the adminis- ROSE BOWL (92,059) TAMPA, FLA. trative operations, with commissioners (the Management RAYMOND JAMES STADIUM Committee) managing the event with guidance from an (65,000) advisory group of athletics directors. A small staff in the PLAYOFF SEMIFINAL

THE playoff’s offi ce in Irving, Texas, will carry out the details ALLSTATE SUGAR BOWL TAXSLAYER BOWL responsibilities. JAN. 1, 2015 | 8:30 P.M. EST JAN. 2, 2015 | 3:20 P.M. EST

UNIVERSITY ESPN Selection Committee BIG TEN/ACC VS. SEC A talented group of high-integrity individuals with experi- ESPN NEW ORLEANS, LA. JACKSONVILLE, FLA. ence as coaches, student-athletes, collegiate administa- LOUISIANA SUPERDOME (72,500) tors and journalists, along with sitting athletics directors, EVERBANK FIELD (67,164)

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