The Austn Sports Commission decided it may be best to wait another year before hosting a college football bowl game. The change of heart comes just weeks after the NCAA certified the city’s request to host a game.
Lance Aldridge, executive director of the Austin Sports Commission told the American-Statesman "with this short a time frame and so little lead time that it’d be best to wait and launch next year.”
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The Sun Belt and AAC were slated to have teams in the Austin game.
"We applaud their courage to explore it and have the courage to step back and make sure they had it right," Wright Waters, executive director of the Football Bowl Association, told ESPN.com. "They can come back in a year to organize and reach out to key individuals in the community. It will be better in every way a year from now."
The other two bowls approved by the NCAA earlier this month, the Cure Bowl in Orlando, and the Arizona Bowl in Tucson, still are scheduled to happen. The bowl count sits at a record-high 41 games for 2015.