Complex sentence: The previous two years, Rutgers had played in the International Bowl and the PapaJohns.com Bowl; South Florida in the same period had played in the PapaJohns.com Bowl and the St. Petersburg Bowl.
Split into simpler sentences: The previous two years, Rutgers had played in the International Bowl and the PapaJohns.com Bowl. In the same period, South Florida played in the PapaJohns.com Bowl and the St. Petersburg Bowl.