INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA has approved 35 college bowl games for the next four years, including two new ones: the Dallas Football Classic and the New Era Pinstripe Bowl in New York.

The NCAA said Friday that the bowls were licensed on a four-year cycle for the first time, though they will be reviewed each year. The move puts the licensing schedule — from 2010-11 through 2013-14 — in line with the length of bowl conference agreements.

The first Pinstripe Bowl will be played at Yankee Stadium in New York Dec. 30. It will include the No. 3 team in the Big East and the No. 6 school in the Big 12, excluding Bowl Championship Series participants.

The first Dallas Football Classic at the Cotton Bowl is planned for New Year's Day 2011, involving the seventh-ranked team from the Big 12 against the sixth-ranked team from the Big Ten. Future games will include Conference USA.

Bowl applications were denied for the Cure Bowl in Orlando, Fla., and the Christmas Bowl in Los Angeles.

In other college bowl news, the Mid-American Conference has partnered with five bowl games for the next four seasons.

At a meeting Friday in Cleveland, the MAC's council of presidents approved the league's pairing with its primary bowl partners — the Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl, GMAC Bowl and Roady's Humanitarian Bowl — and two secondary bowls, the Papajohns.com Bowl and Dallas Football Classic.

Last year, the MAC placed five teams in bowl games for only the third time in conference history.