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The 1991 John Hancock Bowl was a college football bowl game played at Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas between the University of Illinois Fighting Illini and the University of California, Los Angeles on December 31, 1991.
After the 1993 playing, John Hancock Financial reduced its support of the bowl game, to dedicate more of its promotional budget to the 1996 Summer Olympics. [24] The name reverted to Sun Bowl, and to ensure the game would continue, the El Paso city council allocated $600,000 to cover expenses in case of a shortfall.
The 1990 John Hancock Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game between the Michigan State Spartans and the USC Trojans. It was the 57th edition of the Sun Bowl played at Sun Bowl (stadium) in El Paso, TX.
1988: El Paso firefighters Ray Lopez, foreground, and Oscar Lowenberg volunteered to paint the John Hancock Sun Bowl logo on the intersection of Montana and Brown. About 250,000 people are ...
The 1987 John Hancock Sun Bowl was the 54th annual Sun Bowl. The contest featured the West Virginia Mountaineers and the 11th-ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys . Oklahoma State edged out West Virginia, 35–33.
The 1988 John Hancock Sun Bowl, part of the 1988 bowl game season, took place on December 24, 1988, at the Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas. The competing teams were the Alabama Crimson Tide, representing the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and the Army Cadets, competing as a football independent. The game put Alabama's air attack against Army ...
The 1993 John Hancock Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game that featured the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the Oklahoma Sooners. After holding sponsorship rights to the game since 1986, and also naming beginning in 1989, John Hancock Insurance ’s licensing agreement ended following this game.
This was the first edition of the Sun Bowl that carried corporate sponsorship, [5] as John Hancock Financial entered a three-year, $1.5 million partnership. [6] The Fiesta Bowl had done so approximately a year earlier, entering a sponsorship agreement in September 1985 and playing its January 1986 edition as the Sunkist Fiesta Bowl. [7]