TICKETCITY Bowl Set to Kick Off in Cotton Bowl to Embassy Suites Dallas Near the Galleria

Dec. 12, 2011 - PRLog -- 2012 TICKETCITY BOWL FEATURES PENN STATE VS. HOUSTON


The 2012 TicketCity Bowl will feature a pair of Top 25 college football powers as the January 2 game will showcase college football’s all-time passing leader, Houston’s Case Keenum, against the vaunted defense of the Penn State Nittany Lions.



“We are pleased and honored to have two of this year’s truly outstanding college football teams,” said TicketCity Bowl President Tom Starr about the first-ever post-season matchup between the Big Ten Conference vs. Conference USA. “Our goal from the start was to bring major college post-season football back to historic Cotton Bowl Stadium, and with this extraordinary match-up coupled with last year’s exciting Texas Tech-Northwestern game; we believe we have accomplished that objective.”



The second annual TicketCity Bowl will be televised by ESPNU with an 11 a.m. (CST) kickoff. Texas Tech of the Big 12 Conference won the inaugural TicketCity Bowl in 2011 by defeating Northwestern of the Big Ten Conference 45-38 as the two schools combined for 927 yards of total offense - most ever for a bowl game played in Dallas. Both schools will be ranked among the nation’s elite entering the TicketCity Bowl next month.



With Houston ranking first in the nation in passing (443.8 yards a game), total offense (599.0) and scoring (50.8 points a game), Penn State has a nationally-ranked defense under the direction of interim head coach Tom Bradley. The Nittany Lions are 10th in the nation in total defense (300.9) and fifth in points allowed (15.7 per game). Offensively, running back Silas Redd has rushed for 1,188 yards and seven touchdowns in 12 games to rank 26th nationally.



The 2012 TicketCity Bowl will be the final collegiate start for Keenum, who completed 41 of 67 passes for 373 yards and two touchdowns against Southern Miss to become the first quarterback to reach 5,000 yards passing in three seasons. The sixth-year senior bounced back from a torn knee ligament last season to set the Football Bowl Subdivision career records for total offense (19,572 yards), yards passing (18,685) and touchdown passes (152) this year.




Both schools have played post-season games in the Cotton Bowl where Penn State was 2-0-1 in three appearances (1948, 1972 and 1975) before the Nittany Lions became a member of the Big Ten. Houston has posted a 2-2 mark in four Cotton Bowl appearances in 1977, 1979, 1980 and 1985 while a member of the Southwest Conference.


Penn State ranks third all-time in bowl wins (27) and eighth in post-season appearances (43). The Nittany Lions have a 27-14-2 bowl mark after posting a 4-3 post-season record the past decade after dropping a 37-24 decision last New Year’s Day to Florida in the Outback Bowl.




Embassy Suites Dallas Near the Galleria is only minutes away from The Cotton Bowl Stadium and all the TICKETCITY Bowl Action.

At the Embassy Suites Dallas hotel Near the Galleria Shopping Mall, you'll find yourself in the midst of the most popular hotspots in Dallas, Texas. Just 500 yards from the Galleria Towers and JP Morgan Chase International Plaza, this All Suite hotel is located in the prestigious North Dallas/Tollway business corridor. Within close proximity to:

•The Galleria Mall
•Addison Restaurant Row
•Dallas Museum of Art
•The American Airlines Center
•The American Girl Store
•Cotton Bowl
•Golf Courses of North Dallas
•Valley View Mall
•Youth Sports
•Six Flags Over Texas

All guests enjoy :
*Complimentary cooked to order breakfast
*Evening reception with complimentary drinks and snacks
*Two Room Suite
*Indoor Pool
*Fitness Center
*Shuttle in three mile radius of hotel

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Embassy Suites Dallas Galleria centrally located for all business and leisure needs in North Dallas. All suite hotel includes full cooked to order breakfast, eve reception with free cocktails and shuttle service within 3 mile radius of the hotel.