There would be four new bowl games for the 2015 season, if the NCAA approves the new host cities' applications.
Applications from four cities — Austin, Texas; Tucson, Ariz.; Little Rock, Ark.; and Orlando, Fla. — were submitted before Wednesday's deadline, according to ESPN. If all four are approved, it would bring the number of bowl games in college football up to 43.
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That number includes the championship game in the College Football Playoff, so 84 teams would be required to fill every game. There are 127 teams set to play in Division I FBS in 2015, meaning 66 percent of the subdivision's teams would go bowling.
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"As long as the standard to go to a bowl remains 6-6, commissioners will be pressured to have bowl games for all their conference teams to play in," a source told ESPN. "That's why you keep seeing more and more bowls added."
Three of the four new bowl games would involve teams from the American Athletic Conference.
If new bowls approved, AAC will have 9 bowls for 12 teams, highest % of bowls for any conference
— Brett McMurphy (@McMurphyESPN) April 1, 2015The Cure Bowl in Orlando, scheduled for Dec. 19, already has a TV deal with CBS Sports Network and would match up teams from the American and Sun Belt conferences.
The tentatively titled Arizona Bowl would be held at the University of Arizona's stadium in Tucson and would feature teams from the Mountain West and Conference USA.
The untitled Little Rock bowl would be held at War Memorial Stadium and would have teams from the American and Sun Belt. The Austin bowl would have teams from the American and Conference USA, but it does not have a stadium site chosen at this time.
ESPN and ABC reportedly have no interest in televising any of the games, leaving Fox Sports, NBC Sports Network and CBS Sports Network vying to air the three unclaimed games.