Are you ready for some (mediocre) football? The EagleBank Bowl will be sticking in the District for another four years, after the NCAA Football Issues Committee issued it a new license. This year’s bowl is scheduled for December 29, 2010 at scenic RFK Stadium and will be televised live by ESPN at 2:30 p.m. ET.

What’s that? You weren’t thrilled with last season’s juggernaut matchup of Temple and UCLA, a matchup forged when neither of the teams who were contractually obligated to the game finished with bowl-eligible winning records? Well, it isn’t getting any better. The bowl will continue to maintain its affiliation with the ACC, plucking the conference’s eighth-best finisher. (One of these years, Maryland has to finish in that position, right?) Opponents will be pulled from a rotating cast: a Conference USA team this upcoming season, Navy in 2011 and Army in 2012. Those hoping to witness a matchup of power conference teams will probably have to wait until 2013, when a school from the Big 12 — you know, on the off-chance that it still exists at that point — is scheduled come to town.

On the bright side: bowl organizers maintained the game’s later start date, so plenty of people, likely looking for something to do between winter holidays and New Year’s, will have the chance to buy walk-up tickets to witness two middling sides who may or may not have any sort of regional pull go at it in a game that doesn’t mean anything. Get excited, D.C.