Poinsettia Bowl Ticket Sales Healthy, Trail Record-Setting Pace Of '10

San Diego State and Navy today will face off in the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl and ticket sales are "unlikely to equal the record-setting level of the 2010 game." San Diego Bowl Game Association Exec Dir Bruce Binkowski said that about 33,000 tickets has been sold as of Monday morning, "far fewer than the bowl record-48,049 who came out to watch" the same two teams in '10. Navy, allotted 10,000 tickets, had sold 10,800 tickets while SDSU, allotted 3,700, had sold about 7,500 (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 12/23).

Meanwhile, the inaugural Boca Raton Bowl will be played today at FAU Stadium and is the “only bowl game that pits two conference champions other than those” playing in the CFP. Conference USA champion Marshall will take on MAC champion Northern Illinois (BLUEFIELD DAILY TELEGRAPH, 12/23).