NEW ORLEANS – The Sun Belt Conference and the AutoNation Cure Bowl benefiting the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) are teaming up for a conference-wide Coaches for a Cure initiative during the 2018 football season.
During the month of October, the 10 Sun Belt football-playing institutions are participating in Pink Saturdays and displaying Sun Belt Kicks Cancer kicking nets. For the Pink Saturdays games, the Cure Bowl is providing pink shoelaces, armbands, wristbands and towels for coaching staffs to wear for each school’s designated game(s). In addition, each school is set to display a specially designed pink Sun Belt Kicks Cancer kicking net on its home sideline during games throughout the month.
Pink Saturdays is a conference-wide initiative that unites football teams and coaches across the country to raise funds and awareness about the fight against breast cancer and promote BCRF as a source of inspiration for those facing cancer.
The Sun Belt Pink Saturdays games are:
| School |
Game(s) |
| Troy |
Thursday, Oct. 4 vs. Georgia State |
| Texas State |
Saturday, Oct. 6 vs. Louisiana |
| Arkansas State |
Tuesday, Oct. 9 vs. Appalachian State & Thursday, Oct. 18 vs. Georgia State |
| South Alabama |
Saturday, Oct. 13 vs. Alabama State |
| Louisiana |
Saturday, Oct. 13 vs. New Mexico State |
| ULM |
Saturday, Oct. 13 at Coastal Carolina |
| Coastal Carolina |
Saturday, Oct. 13 vs. ULM |
| Appalachian State |
Saturday, Oct. 20 vs. Louisiana |
| Georgia Southern |
Thursday, Oct. 25 vs. Appalachian State |
| Georgia State |
Saturday, Oct. 27 vs. Coastal Carolina |
"The Sun Belt has enjoyed a great relationship with the AutoNation Cure Bowl and working together on this initiative is one more example of our conference and institutions uniting as one to raise awareness for a cause that means so much to so many," said Sun Belt Commissioner Karl Benson.
"We appreciate the Sun Belt schools coming together for our Coaches for a Cure initiative," said AutoNation Cure Bowl Executive Director Alan Gooch. "The exposure from the Pink Saturdays and Sun Belt Kick Cancer kicking nets will further our efforts to raise funds for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation with hopes of finding a cure. It is by working together like this that we can tackle the fight to beat cancer."
About the AutoNation Cure Bowl
Bringing Teams Together to Find a Cure for Cancer. The AutoNation Cure Bowl is more than a game. It’s a celebration of the women who are living with breast cancer today and those who will face it tomorrow.
Funds raised from the AutoNation Cure Bowl directly benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF). Since 2015, the bowl has raised a collective $3.55 million dollars to benefit breast cancer research.
The 2018 AutoNation Cure Bowl benefitting BCRF, pitting teams from the Sun Belt Conference and the American Athletic Conference, is set for Saturday, Dec. 15 at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Fla. Kickoff is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. CT/1:30 p.m. ET on CBS Sports Network and iHeart Radio’s 96.9 The Game.
To learn more, visit
CureBowl.com.
About the Breast Cancer Research Foundation
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) is dedicated to being the end of breast cancer by advancing the world’s most promising research. Founded by Evelyn H. Lauder in 1993, BCRF-funded investigators have been deeply involved in every major breakthrough in breast cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment and survivorship. By committing 91 cents of every dollar directly to its mission, BCRF is one of the nation’s most fiscally responsible nonprofits and the largest private funder of breast cancer research worldwide.
To learn more, visit
BCRF.org.