Mystery (mostly) solved: Here's what the future holds for Charlotte's Belk Bowl

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Southeastern and Big Ten conferences this week disclosed agreements to alternate sending member schools to the Belk Bowl in Charlotte — an all-but-certain confirmation the game itself will be played here through 2025. But it’s going to be at least a few more weeks before the inevitable becomes official.

This week, a bowl spokesman told CBJ that, for the moment, the only thing definite is that the SEC and Big Ten will send a school here every other year — a Big Ten team in 2020, 2022 and 2024; one from the SEC in 2021, 2023 and 2025.

The current six-year contract for the bowl game at Bank of America Stadium expires after the 2019 game, to be played on New Year’s Eve. Since 2014, an Atlantic Coast Conference team has faced one from the SEC in the Belk Bowl. The Greensboro-based ACC has been part of the bowl from the game’s inception in 2002.

There is no doubt that the ACC’s continued participation is a mere formality. A conference spokesperson said Thursday the ACC plans to disclose its future bowl ties next month.

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