The Pinstripe Bowl has a new partner.
The annual college football bowl game at Yankee Stadium will now be known as the Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl, the Yankees announced on Tuesday.
The 2022 game, pitting a member of the Big Ten against an ACC team, will be held on Dec. 29 at 2 p.m. It will mark the 12th edition of the Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium.
From L-R: Bowl Season executive director Nick Carparelli, Bad Boy Mowers CEO Peter Ballantyne, Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl executive director Mark Holtzman and Big Ten senior director of football operations A.J. Edds. New York Yankees“With New York City and Yankee Stadium as its backdrop, our full week of bowl activities truly provides one of the most unique atmospheres and settings in college football, and we are proud to share the spotlight with a company like Bad Boy Mowers, which has trod a similar path as our game, becoming highly regarded in a crowded marketplace in a short amount of time,” Mark Holtzman, executive director of the Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl, said in a statement.
“Bad Boy Mowers is thrilled to be the title partner of the Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium, and support once again the great American tradition of college football,” said Peter Ballantyne, CEO of Bad Boy Mowers, an Arkansas company which also will be the sponsor of the Bahamas-based collage basketball preseason tournament Battle 4 Atlantis.
In last year’s Pinstripe Bowl, Maryland crushed Virginia Tech, 54-10. It has been played every year since 2010, with the exception of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The new Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl logo. New York YankeesThe bowl game — the first in New York City since Yankee Stadium hosted the Dec. 15, 1962 Gotham Bowl between Nebraska and Miami — originally pitted a team from the Big East, or Notre Dame, against a team from the Big 12.
