Name Change: Cactus Bowl replacing Rate Bowl

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Since being two-time champs, figured this was appropriate.

Also venue change; moving to ASU. I don't hate baseball stadium concepts for the bowl season, but the playing surface was definitely an issue when there in 2021, so perhaps a good thing......
 


Good and Good

Always like the rare non-corporate names (it's been Cactus Bowl and Copper Bowl at points in the past) and glad it's ditching the D-Backs park. Chase Field looked so dark, bad field quality, and poor football sight lines on TV.
 

Think we played in this bowl three times when it was at ASU. Brewster's two bowl games, Kansas shellacked us once they figured out Brews new ground game approach and I think Gray fumbled on the winning drive vs ISU. Also the site of Mason's last stand vs Texas Tech
 












Moving it back to ASU's stadium will definitely make it more attractive to attend for me personally. I have relatives in the area and was at the Texas Tech debacle. The way the game ended sucked but the experience up to that point was great.
 






fmlizard said:
Good and Good

Always like the rare non-corporate names (it's been Cactus Bowl and Copper Bowl at points in the past) and glad it's ditching the D-Backs park. Chase Field looked so dark, bad field quality, and poor football sight lines on TV.
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I'm sure it will still be the "Kalshi Cactus Bowl" or something similar...
 

howeda7 said:
I'm sure it will still be the "Kalshi Cactus Bowl" or something similar...
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And by the time it's played ASU's stadium will just be a massive data center, and the game will be played in Cooling Lot D
 


Zeppelin Gopher said:
Sun Devil Stadium >>> Chase Field

Tempe >>> Downtown PHX

Both great changes IMO.
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The promoters were trying to get people (spending money) downtown, is clearly what the play for having it at Chase was.

Agree with what you say though, this is a good move to bring it back to a campus and a real football stadium.
 

Some Day...Maybe said:
A sneaky 3rd change that’s huge, it’s at 5:30 local time instead of 8:00pm!!!
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For people trying to travel down and back in one day, also gives them a better shot at getting on a flight home.

That would be a lonnnng day, the day after Xmas, on a Saturday to boot.
 

I'm a snowbird. Now how do I convince my wife to spend Christmas in Arizona if the Gophers are in the Cactus bowl? Ahhh...This is going to be a tough sell.
 

stocker08 said:
Bring back Micron PCs. The kids demand desktop computers in beige boxes!!!
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At the time thought it was off the rails for a name like this and a computer company to boot being the sponsor. Now we don't even blink with the Xbox Bowl now on the table.

As an aside looked up "Micron PC," which was a division of Micron Technology that went bankrupt in 2008. While not surviving in the PC wars, apparently Micron Technology is alive and well as one of the world's major semiconductor and memory manufacturers. Source: Google AI.
 

Memory and electricity are now the major bottlenecks for increasing AI (datacenter) output/capacity, at the moment.

That and dumbass people opposing datacenters being built. We should have nuclear power plants dotting this country, as the premier emission-free green energy source of the world.
 

GopherGrit said:
The promoters were trying to get people (spending money) downtown, is clearly what the play for having it at Chase was.
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Your grasp of the blindingly obvious is truly impressive.
 

BilldGopher said:
At the time thought it was off the rails for a name like this and a computer company to boot being the sponsor. Now we don't even blink with the Xbox Bowl now on the table.

As an aside looked up "Micron PC," which was a division of Micron Technology that went bankrupt in 2008. While not surviving in the PC wars, apparently Micron Technology is alive and well as one of the world's major semiconductor and memory manufacturers. Source: Google AI.
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Yes, I believe that Micron may be one of the companies that shut down their consumer memory division to focus solely on datacenter/AI memory. Definitely contributing to the increase in computing costs. Thanks, Micron! First you ditch our favorite bowl game....and now this!?
 

stocker08 said:
Yes, I believe that Micron may be one of the companies that shut down their consumer memory division to focus solely on datacenter/AI memory. Definitely contributing to the increase in computing costs. Thanks, Micron! First you ditch our favorite bowl game....and now this!?
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Come to think of it...probably was Micron hardware that generated the Google AI's response that I posted. Possibly the chips are a little self-serving in generating the "alive and well" characterization of the Mother Ship? Hmmnnn...

Even the Bard of Avon chimed in...
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