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The Blue–Gray Football Classic was an annual American college football all-star game held in Alabama, usually in late December and often on Christmas Day.The brainchild of Alabama college football legend Champ Pickens, [1] the contest began in 1939 and was held annually through 2001, with the exception of 1943 due to World War II.
Cramton Bowl probably achieved its greatest fame as the home of the Blue–Gray Football Classic, an annual college football all-star game which was held there each December from 1938 until 2001. Beginning in 2014, Cramton Bowl began hosting the Camellia Bowl , a college football bowl game with tie-ins with the Sun Belt Conference and Mid ...
1959–60 NCAA football bowl games; Season: 1959: Number of bowls: 9: All-star games: Blue–Gray Football Classic East–West Shrine Game North–South Shrine Game Senior Bowl: Bowl games: December 19, 1959 – January 2, 1960 [a] Champions: Syracuse (AP, Coaches, FWAA, NFF)
For nearly a century, bowl games were the purview of only the very best teams, but a steady proliferation of new bowl games required more teams, with 70 participating teams by the 2010–11 bowl season, then 80 participating teams by the 2015–16 bowl season. As a result, the NCAA has steadily relaxed the criteria for bowl eligibility.
The 12-team College Football Playoff has given us more games and also juggled the bowl schedule. Bowl season begins on Dec. 14 and now ends on Jan. 4 for the non-playoff bowls.
The 1958–59 NCAA football bowl games were a series of post-season games played in December 1958 and January 1959 to end the 1958 college football season. A total of eight team-competitive games, [ 1 ] and four all-star games, were played.
The quarterfinal matchups, scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 31, and Wednesday, Jan. 1, will take place in one of four renowned bowl games: the Fiesta Bowl, Peach Bowl, Rose Bowl or Sugar Bowl.
The first round of the new 12-team College Football Playoff format is set to ignite the field on Friday, Dec. 20 with a primetime game. This marks the beginning of an intense postseason, where ...