List of college bowl games

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[edit] Bowl Championship Series Games

From the 1998 season until the 2005 season, four BCS bowls have determined the national champion on a rotating basis. The other three games consisted of major conference champions not playing in the championship game, as well as two at-large teams.

However, a change implemented before the beginning 2006 season allowed for the creation of a fifth BCS bowl, the BCS National Championship Game. The BCS National Championship Game is now a separate event from the host bowl, but is played at the same site one week after New Year's Day. (For example, in January 2007 Glendale hosted first the Fiesta Bowl, then the BCS National Championship Game a week later.) The game's location will rotate among the four main bowl sites of Glendale, New Orleans, Miami Gardens and Pasadena. To differentiate the sites the sponsor of that game's normal bowl will also sponsor the BCS National Championship Game (e.g., Tostitos will sponsor the game when in Glendale, Allstate will sponsor the game when in New Orleans, and so on).[1]

[edit] 1999 - 2006

Name Started City Stadium Sponsor
Fiesta Bowl 1971 Tempe, Arizona[2] Sun Devil Stadium Tostitos
Orange Bowl 1935 Miami, Florida[3]
Miami Gardens, Florida.		 Miami Orange Bowl[3]
Dolphin Stadium		 FedEx
Rose Bowl Game 1902 Pasadena, California Rose Bowl Citi
Sugar Bowl 1935 New Orleans, Louisiana
Atlanta, Georgia[4]		 Tulane Stadium
Louisiana Superdome
Georgia Dome[4]		 Allstate
National Championship Game 1998 Rotates [5] Rotates [5]

[edit] 2007 - 2010

Sponsor Name Payout Started City Stadium
Tostitos Fiesta Bowl $17M 1971 Glendale, Arizona University of Phoenix Stadium
FedEx Orange Bowl $17M 1935 Miami Gardens, Florida Dolphin Stadium
Citi Rose Bowl $17M 1902 Pasadena, California Rose Bowl
Allstate Sugar Bowl $17M 1935 New Orleans, Louisiana Louisiana Superdome
Rotates[6] BCS National Championship Game $17M 2006 Rotates[7]

[edit] Other Current Bowl Games

Besides BCS games, there are a number of other postseason invitationals. Generally, two conferences will agree to send teams of a particular standing to a game beforehand. For instance, the Rose Bowl traditionally features the Big Ten and Pac Ten conference champions. Generally, the payout to the participating teams in a Bowl Game is closely correlated to its prestige. For comparison, each of the BCS bowls (including the National Championship) has a payout of $17 million.

Sponsor(s) Name City Most
Recent
Payout		 Started Previous Name(s)
Brut Sun Bowl El Paso, Texas $1,900,000 1935 John Hancock Sun Bowl, John Hancock Bowl, Wells Fargo Sun Bowl, Vitalis Sun Bowl, Norwest Sun Bowl
AT&T Cotton Bowl Dallas, Texas $3,000,000 1937 Cotton Bowl, Mobil Cotton Bowl, SBC Cotton Bowl
Konica Minolta[8] Gator Bowl Jacksonville, Florida

(1994: Gainesville, Florida)

 $2,500,000 1946 Toyota Gator Bowl, Mazda Gator Bowl
Capital One Capital One Bowl Orlando, Florida

(1973: Gainesville, Florida)

 $4,250,000 1947 Tangerine Bowl, Florida Citrus Bowl
AutoZone Liberty Bowl Memphis, Tennessee $1,700,000 1959
Chick-fil-A Chick-fil-A Bowl Atlanta, Georgia $2,400,000 to $3,250,000 1968 Peach Bowl, Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl
PetroSun Independence Bowl Shreveport, Louisiana $1,100,000 1976 Poulan Weed-Eater Independence Bowl
Outback Steakhouse Outback Bowl Tampa, Florida $3,000,000 1986 Hall of Fame Bowl
Pacific Life Holiday Bowl San Diego, California $2,130,000 1978
Insight Insight Bowl Tempe, Arizona

(1989-99: Tucson, Arizona 2000-2005: Phoenix, Arizona)

 $1,200,000 1989 Copper Bowl, Insight.com Bowl
Champs Sports Champs Sports Bowl Orlando, Florida

(1990-2000: Miami Gardens, Florida)

 $2,250,000 1990 Tangerine Bowl, Carquest Bowl, MicronPC Bowl, MicronPC.com Bowl, Blockbuster Bowl
Pioneer Las Vegas Bowl Las Vegas, Nevada (1981-91: Fresno, California) $1,000,000 1992 California Bowl, EA Sports Las Vegas Bowl, Sega Sports Las Vegas Bowl, Pioneer PureVision Las Vegas Bowl
Valero[9] Alamo Bowl San Antonio, Texas $2,250,000 1993 Builders Square Alamo Bowl, Sylvania Alamo Bowl, MasterCard Alamo Bowl
Ford, GM, Chrysler Motor City Bowl Detroit, Michigan (1997-2001: Pontiac, Michigan) $750,000 1997
Roady's Truck Stops Humanitarian Bowl Boise, Idaho $750,000 1997 Humanitarian Bowl, MPC Computers Bowl
Gaylord Hotels, Bridgestone Music City Bowl Nashville, Tennessee $1,600,000 1998
GMAC GMAC Bowl Mobile, Alabama $750,000 1999 Mobile Alabama Bowl
None Texas Bowl Houston, Texas $500,000 to $700,000 2000 galleryfurniture.com Bowl, EV1.net Houston Bowl
R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl New Orleans, Louisiana

(2005: Lafayette, Louisiana)

 $325,000 2001 Wyndham New Orleans Bowl
Emerald Nuts Emerald Bowl San Francisco, California $850,000 2002 San Francisco Bowl, Diamond Walnut San Francisco Bowl
Sheraton Hawaiʻi Bowl Honolulu, Hawaiʻi $398,000 2002 ConAgra Foods Hawaii Bowl
Meineke Meineke Car Care Bowl Charlotte, North Carolina $750,000 2002 Continental Tire Bowl, Queen City Bowl
Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl Fort Worth, Texas $600,000 2003 Fort Worth Bowl, Plains Capital Fort Worth Bowl
San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl San Diego, California $750,000 2005
Papa John's Papajohns.com Bowl Birmingham, Alabama $300,000 2006 Birmingham Bowl
New Mexico Department of Tourism New Mexico Bowl Albuquerque, New Mexico $750,000 2006
None International Bowl Toronto, Ontario $750,000 2007
None Congressional Bowl Washington, D.C. 2008
None St. Petersburg Bowl St. Petersburg, Florida 2008

[edit] New Bowl Games For 2008-2009

On April 30, 2008, the Postseason Football Licensing Subcommittee of the NCAA had given the okay to two of the three bowls that were proposed for addition to the 2008-2009 schedule.[10] The games that were approved were the Congressional Bowl, to be played in Washington, D.C., and the St. Petersburg Bowl, to be played at Tropicana Field in the titular Florida city with both games scheduled for December 20th, 2008. The one bowl that was rejected was the Rocky Mountain Bowl, which would have been played in Salt Lake City, Utah on the campus of the University of Utah at Rice-Eccles Stadium.

[edit] All-Star Games

[edit] Regular season rivalries called Bowls

[edit] Non-Division I FBS Bowl Games

[edit] Division I FCS

[edit] Division II

[edit] Division III

[edit] NAIA Bowl Games

There is a large list of bowl games for NAIA available at http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/bowls/college_division_minor_bowls.php -- You can help Wikipedia by expanding this section.

  • Wheat Bowl (pre-season NAIA), 1995-present [11]
  • NAIA national football championship (1956-present); previously called Aluminum Bowl (1956), Holiday Bowl (1957-1960), Camellia Bowl (1961-1963), Championship Bowl (1964-1976 Division I), Apple Bowl (1977 Division I), Palm Bowl (1978-1979 Division I), and Championship Bowl (1980-1996 Division I)

[edit] NCCAA Bowl Games

[edit] Defunct bowl games

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Allstate press release, March 22, 2006
  2. ^ The game did not move to its current site of Glendale, Arizona until 2007.
  3. ^ a b Game played in Miami, 1999
  4. ^ a b Game played in Atlanta in 2006 due to extensive damage to the Louisiana Superdome from Hurricane Katrina. It returned to New Orleans in 2007.
  5. ^ a b The rotation is as follows: Fiesta (1998, 2002), Sugar (1999, 2003), Orange (2000, 2004), Rose (2001, 2005).
  6. ^ The rotation is as follows: Tostitos (2006), Allstate (2007), FedEx (2008), Citi (2009)
  7. ^ The rotation is as follows: University of Phoenix Stadium (2006), Louisiana Superdome (2007), Dolphin Stadium (2008), Rose Bowl (2009)
  8. ^ "Gator Bowl lands deal for new title sponsor" Garry Smits, Jacksonville Times-Union. September 30, 2007. Accessed November 5, 2007.
  9. ^ Valero Energy Corporation Alamo Bowl press release
  10. ^ Rivals.com College Football - NCAA set to add pair of bowl games
  11. ^ NAIAFOOTBALL.NET-The Nation's Home for NAIA Football
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