I would always watch the Bluebonnet Bowl. It was held in Houston, Texas. First at Rice Stadium and later at the Astrodome. In those days the Astrodome was the only domed stadium.
you're not going to mention the international bowl?? the bowl that took place in the SkyDome, in Toronto, in December!!!! I attended 2 consecutive International bowls. Saw Ray Rice score 4 TDs
How about the Kraft Hunger Bowl played in San Francisco at the Giants ball park? This was short lived and I believe it had a couple different names/sponsors.
That bowl game is in NCAA 13, but I think they used a generic stadium model instead of the real thing. It's unfortunate, because a stadium with views of the San Francisco bay would've been a great venue for a neutral-site Pac-12 championship in dynasty mode.
In my bay area "backyard" in San Francisco, we had the Diamond Walnut > Emerald > Kraft Fight Hunger > Foster Farms > Redbox bowl... moving from the Giants stadium to eventually Levi. I got to see the Terrapins, Canes, Noles, BC and a few others. I miss that bowl excitement locally! Went to a Silicon Valley bowl as well.
I remember the Freedom Bowl. That bowl was around for 11 years, and I saw two Freedom Bowls on TV. And those editions the 1991 and 1992 games. The 1992 game between USC and Fresno State is the Freedom Bowl I most remember because I waited all week for that game to come on, plus, it was the game that helped get USC head coach Larry Smith fired. The Trojans played so bad in that game offensively that USC's athletic department had had enough with the Smith regime.
Man, I wish someone wrote a book on Aloha Stadium. That is such a historic stadium as it hosted University of Hawaii football games, the Pro Bowl, and many other events in its history from 1975 to 2020.
There's a lot that you missed. Cherry Bowl only lasted 2 years in the mid 80s. Bluebonnet bowl lasted nearly 30 years before becoming defunct in the late 80s. Pasadena Bowl only lasted a few years in the 60s-early 70s. Hall of Fame/All-American Bowl in Birmingham lasted about 15 years before going defunct. Garden State Bowl lasted a few years in the late 70s-early 80s. California Bowl lasted for a decade in the 80s. There's probably another 2 or 3 video's worth of defunct bowls.
In re: Seattle Bowl. I think if WFU won a bowl, it had to be discontinued under the old NCAA rules from 1977 onward. The Independence Bowl got an exemption when WFU won because Oregon was in control until Wake scored 29 unanswered points, which was understood to be just silly. -- Carl Wilkerson, WFU, 1987
You should look up the Steamboat Bowl, was an NAIA bowl game played only twice at Bracewell Stadium in Burlington, IA. Bracewell Stadium is a historic high school field built from a rock quarry back in 1920. It was the 1st high school field west of the Mississippi River to install lights, and in 2014, became the 1st high school field in the nation to convert to all LED lighting. These 2 games were in the late 1980s, though, back when it didn't even have play clocks or the artificial turf they have now.
Cherry Bowl in 1984 and 1985 is another. Pontiac Silverdome hosted that too, in what was the first attempt to host a game here in Michigan. Michigan State was in first one of that (it's first bowl game overall since 1966 I'd add), losing to Army 10-6. Mounting debt, a failed attempt to get a sponsorship by General Motors ironically enough given it'd sponsor what started as the Motor City Bowl years later, and dwindling attendance from year 1 to year 2, killed it.
@@ajk If you look at the the video footage of the two Steamboat Bowls, The first one was tailor made for Iowa Wesleyan University (which closed permanently after the 2023 spring semester), who still lost the game. The second one served as more of a neutral bowl game. Neither game could draw nearly as good of attendance is the Burlington High School football games could. Iowa Wesleyan often struggled for attendance, plus you have to remember this was in southeast Iowa during the winter in a pit surrounded by hills
The Humanitarian Bowl was one I always loathed. Hosted in Boise, Idaho at that blue field. C-USA was always involved I believe and it seemed like Louisville was ALWAYS in that game.
I do love it when bowl games are played at baseball stadiums and the 2 bowl games I want is The Nickelodeon Bowl in Carson where the chargers played from 2017-2019 and where I live in Augusta, The SRP Bowl.
It's now the inaugural Pop Tarts Bowl. It went from the Blockbuster Bowl to the Carquest Bowl to the Russell Athletic Bowl to the Cheez-It Bowl. But Cheez-It is sponsoring the Citrus Bowl now yet Kellogg still owns the sponsorship rights, so now it's the Pop Tarts Bowl. I still don't understand why they didn't take over the Bowl in Detroit and call it the Cereal Bowl.
Incorrect info on the "Little Caesars Bowl". Did NOT start out as the "Little Caesars" Bowl, it was first called The Cherry Bowl in the mid 1980s before rebranding to the Motor City Bowl, sponsored by the "Big Three" automakers in Detroit, Ford, GM, Chrysler and ran from 1997-2009. After 09' Little Caesars Pizza became the primary sponsor for the now defunct Motor City Bowl and was rebranded into the Little Caesars Bowl. Fast forward to 2014 the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl was rebranded, again, into what we know as the Quick Lane Bowl today.
The bowls I remember back in the early 70's ...peach, gator, sun, liberty, then the big ones on new years eve and day, sugar, cotton, rose, fiesta , orange, ...thats about it that i remember. Now they have what...30 plus of them now ?
Actually Ging when they had multi-purpose stadiums football would be played on dirt infields until baseball season was over. In the case of astroturf and sliding pits they patched up the sliding pits.
You need to do more research because they are several bowls you missed like the Cherry Bowl, even though you mention the matchup between Marshall and Mississippi you had them playing in the Little Caesars Bowl. They actually played in the Motor City Bowl. Several other bowls are the California Bowl, that eventually would become the California Raisin Bowl, the Bluebonnet Bowl, and the Poinsettia Bowl. I know that more bowls did exist but I will leave you to find them on your own. Thanks for the content though.
Just about every Christmas day from 1991 to 2000 it was Jeep Eagle Aloha Bowl day on ABC with me (the rest of my family didn't give a shit about that bowl game). I used to sit in front of the TV and watch that bowl game with youthful glee. My favorite Aloha Bowls were the 1993, 1996, and 1999 editions.
What about the Cherry Bowl at the Silverdome? They had it for 2 seasons. I went to the first with Michigan State losing to Army. My friend Rob scored the only touchdown for Sparty that day.
These games had teams where either the team had no chance of drawing their fans to the game or the game was no where close to being a priority for even the alumni to make the trip.
I remember the Minnesota State Screaming Eagles playing the Iowa Hawkeyes there during a blizzard where half the team came down with the flu and they were forced to play their fourth string walk-on quarterback. They lost 71-7 though.
I am thinking these meaningless bowls are not going to last much longer when the 16 team playoffs come around. Just will be zero interest in anything that is not playoff related.
Half of the current bowl games should not exist anymore. Right now the NCAA has a rule where if you win half your games you are both eligible. And in rare cases, not even that. The Minnesota gophers made a bowl game this year with a 5-7 record. There are 12 games in the regular season. To make a bowl game a team should have to win at least eight games. Thank goodness next year there’s going to be a 12 team college football playoff. Which will make the college football postseason more meaningful than it ever has been before. As a result, college football will be better than it ever has been before.
OMG I would love to have seen the Seattle bowl in Safeco
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Man I miss the old bowl game logos. I'm glad more teams get to play postseason, but the NCAA needs to figure it out. Attendance is going to suffer in a lot of them because how do you draw fans if 2 programs who may not play anywhere near where the game is hosted without it having at least 1 marquee program or a match-up of 2 ranked schools???
they must, it's ridiculous. Negative records can play now. And for me who's from another culture, the whole system, playoff aside, is close to pointless
there was over one hundred not many years back the whole thing is on brink of collapse as players sit for future monetary gain- not sure i blame them-- how about poulon weed eater bowl maybe in shreveport ? i used to like those early dec. mac and c-usa games
I believe it's the Guarnateed Rate Bowl now. It went from being the Copper Bowl, then the Insight Bowl, then the Cheez-It Bowl, but then Cheez-It replaced the Russell Athletic Bowl in Orlando, so the sponsorship in Arizona was bought by Guaranteed Rate Mortgage, so now it's the Guaranteed Rate Bowl.
Man, you didn't even say anything about the Cherry Bowl. That was the original bowl game played at the Pontiac Silverdome the first one was played in 1984 it was Army and Michigan State this was Army's very first Bowl appearance ever they drew 70,000 fans(Silverdome had 80,000 seats) and Army won 10-6. Little side note I think it was Michigan State's first bowl game since the 66 Rose Bowl because this was during the era where it seemed like the Big Ten was only getting two bull bids out of the conference the conference champion of course went to the Rose Bowl to face the pac-10 champion and like the runner-up would get a bowl bid somewhere because there weren't many bulls around at the time at this point in time there was only like 15 bowl games so the top 25 plus the next five made it into a bowl plus you had to have better than a .500 record back then you had to be at least 6-5 to get a bowl bid(college only played 11 game seasons back then). So for Michigan State being in a conference where you have Michigan and Ohio State and each of those teams were generally 7-4 at the worst generally 8-3 or better though. So this was Michigan State's first year to have an opportunity because the Big Ten had more bowl bids given to them.
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Don’t forget the Strickland Propane and Propane Accessories Bowl
What about the Sneed's Feed and Seed Bowl (formerly Chuck's)
Or the Mega-Lo Bowl
Greatest bowl game that ever was, I tell you what. 😂😂😂
Isn't it always a matchup of two Texas schools?
I tell you something man. That dang there I don’t know gonna buy me some of that and put it in my pocket. Boomhauer
I would always watch the Bluebonnet Bowl. It was held in Houston, Texas. First at Rice Stadium and later at the Astrodome. In those days the Astrodome was the only domed stadium.
I noticed the Bluebonnet Bowl was missing too
The Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl
I thought the same thing
I NEED the Poinsettia Bowl to come back 🌺
The Cherry Bowl dude played in the Silverdome.
Poinsettia bowl in san diego was another but the organizers stopped to focus on the Holiday Bowl
you're not going to mention the international bowl?? the bowl that took place in the SkyDome, in Toronto, in December!!!! I attended 2 consecutive International bowls. Saw Ray Rice score 4 TDs
How about the Kraft Hunger Bowl played in San Francisco at the Giants ball park? This was short lived and I believe it had a couple different names/sponsors.
That bowl game is in NCAA 13, but I think they used a generic stadium model instead of the real thing. It's unfortunate, because a stadium with views of the San Francisco bay would've been a great venue for a neutral-site Pac-12 championship in dynasty mode.
@@nathanstroud2223dude I always thought the same thing
Oracle park has had a couple different bowl games they have hosted. I went to one, it’s kind of bizarre for football.
@@scotttild Also was home to the San Francisco Demons of the original XFL
The Garden State Bowl played at the old Meadowlands Stadium 🏟️
Good video, don’t forget the BlueBonnet Bowl, seemed like a big game
Salad bowl,1948-1955 in Phoenix
'Blockbuster Bowl'?, 'Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl'?...
Stagg bowl was d3 championship game
The Cherry Bowl back in the 80s
Houston Bowl was preceded by the Bluebonnet Bowl from 1959-1987 in Rice Stadium then the Astrodome. Game was suspended till it came back in 2000.
In my bay area "backyard" in San Francisco, we had the Diamond Walnut > Emerald > Kraft Fight Hunger > Foster Farms > Redbox bowl... moving from the Giants stadium to eventually Levi. I got to see the Terrapins, Canes, Noles, BC and a few others. I miss that bowl excitement locally! Went to a Silicon Valley bowl as well.
I remember the Freedom Bowl. That bowl was around for 11 years, and I saw two Freedom Bowls on TV. And those editions the 1991 and 1992 games. The 1992 game between USC and Fresno State is the Freedom Bowl I most remember because I waited all week for that game to come on, plus, it was the game that helped get USC head coach Larry Smith fired. The Trojans played so bad in that game offensively that USC's athletic department had had enough with the Smith regime.
California bowl in Fresno. 1981 to 1992
*California Raisin Bowl
Garden state bowl
Should have mentioned the Bluebonnet Bowl in Houston.
Man, I wish someone wrote a book on Aloha Stadium. That is such a historic stadium as it hosted University of Hawaii football games, the Pro Bowl, and many other events in its history from 1975 to 2020.
There's a lot that you missed. Cherry Bowl only lasted 2 years in the mid 80s. Bluebonnet bowl lasted nearly 30 years before becoming defunct in the late 80s. Pasadena Bowl only lasted a few years in the 60s-early 70s. Hall of Fame/All-American Bowl in Birmingham lasted about 15 years before going defunct. Garden State Bowl lasted a few years in the late 70s-early 80s. California Bowl lasted for a decade in the 80s. There's probably another 2 or 3 video's worth of defunct bowls.
In re: Seattle Bowl. I think if WFU won a bowl, it had to be discontinued under the old NCAA rules from 1977 onward. The Independence Bowl got an exemption when WFU won because Oregon was in control until Wake scored 29 unanswered points, which was understood to be just silly.
-- Carl Wilkerson, WFU, 1987
You should look up the Steamboat Bowl, was an NAIA bowl game played only twice at Bracewell Stadium in Burlington, IA. Bracewell Stadium is a historic high school field built from a rock quarry back in 1920. It was the 1st high school field west of the Mississippi River to install lights, and in 2014, became the 1st high school field in the nation to convert to all LED lighting. These 2 games were in the late 1980s, though, back when it didn't even have play clocks or the artificial turf they have now.
Cherry Bowl in 1984 and 1985 is another. Pontiac Silverdome hosted that too, in what was the first attempt to host a game here in Michigan. Michigan State was in first one of that (it's first bowl game overall since 1966 I'd add), losing to Army 10-6. Mounting debt, a failed attempt to get a sponsorship by General Motors ironically enough given it'd sponsor what started as the Motor City Bowl years later, and dwindling attendance from year 1 to year 2, killed it.
@@ajk If you look at the the video footage of the two Steamboat Bowls, The first one was tailor made for Iowa Wesleyan University (which closed permanently after the 2023 spring semester), who still lost the game. The second one served as more of a neutral bowl game. Neither game could draw nearly as good of attendance is the Burlington High School football games could. Iowa Wesleyan often struggled for attendance, plus you have to remember this was in southeast Iowa during the winter in a pit surrounded by hills
Fun fact a young Bruno Mars as an Elvis impersonator performed at Halftime at the Aloha Bowl
Wisconsin (my alma mater) played in the Garden State Bowl back in the day.
I miss the Aloha & Oahu bowl on Christmas Day
Being a Socal kid I remember the Freedom Bowl and what was unique much like the Independence Bowl it would be on a local channel
You forgot the international bowl in Toronto Canada
The Humanitarian Bowl was one I always loathed. Hosted in Boise, Idaho at that blue field. C-USA was always involved I believe and it seemed like Louisville was ALWAYS in that game.
Now the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
The Rowdy’s Truck Stop Humanitarian Bowl
So many more- Garden State Bowl Bluebonnet Bowl, etc. I also think there was a Bacardi Bowl played in Havana Cuba.
Don't forget the Cherry Bowl . It was at the Silverdome around 1988.
Then there was the Cherry Bowl that was also played at the Pontiac Silverdome.
I used to watch every bowl game. Wouldn’t miss a single game. Now I refuse to pay to watch tv. Soooo….. now I might be able to watch three(?) games.
Left out The All-American Bowl in Birmingham, AL that evolved into the Hall of Fame Bowl, & The Bacardi Bowl held in Havana, Cuba
There is other bowls that existed that where pretty good the Bluebonnet bowl for example
I do love it when bowl games are played at baseball stadiums and the 2 bowl games I want is The Nickelodeon Bowl in Carson where the chargers played from 2017-2019 and where I live in Augusta, The SRP Bowl.
Car Quest Bowl
The successor of the Blockbuster Bowl
It's now the inaugural Pop Tarts Bowl. It went from the Blockbuster Bowl to the Carquest Bowl to the Russell Athletic Bowl to the Cheez-It Bowl. But Cheez-It is sponsoring the Citrus Bowl now yet Kellogg still owns the sponsorship rights, so now it's the Pop Tarts Bowl. I still don't understand why they didn't take over the Bowl in Detroit and call it the Cereal Bowl.
I went to the penultimate Silicon Valley Football Classic between UCLA and Fresno State.
Incorrect info on the "Little Caesars Bowl". Did NOT start out as the "Little Caesars" Bowl, it was first called The Cherry Bowl in the mid 1980s before rebranding to the Motor City Bowl, sponsored by the "Big Three" automakers in Detroit, Ford, GM, Chrysler and ran from 1997-2009. After 09' Little Caesars Pizza became the primary sponsor for the now defunct Motor City Bowl and was rebranded into the Little Caesars Bowl. Fast forward to 2014 the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl was rebranded, again, into what we know as the Quick Lane Bowl today.
Of course my yellow jackets was part of the most defunct bowl game lol
I loved watching the Bluebonnet Bowl. It used to be on New Years Eve.
They are building a new stadium. It's actually under construction
The bowls I remember back in the early 70's ...peach, gator, sun, liberty, then the big ones on new years eve and day, sugar, cotton, rose, fiesta , orange, ...thats about it that i remember. Now they have what...30 plus of them now ?
41 of them now, quite a bit.
2:40... Freedom Bowl, 1984-1994 is ELEVEN years!! (Not 10).
Actually Ging when they had multi-purpose stadiums football would be played on dirt infields until baseball season was over. In the case of astroturf and sliding pits they patched up the sliding pits.
You need to do more research because they are several bowls you missed like the Cherry Bowl, even though you mention the matchup between Marshall and Mississippi you had them playing in the Little Caesars Bowl. They actually played in the Motor City Bowl. Several other bowls are the California Bowl, that eventually would become the California Raisin Bowl, the Bluebonnet Bowl, and the Poinsettia Bowl. I know that more bowls did exist but I will leave you to find them on your own. Thanks for the content though.
Just about every Christmas day from 1991 to 2000 it was Jeep Eagle Aloha Bowl day on ABC with me (the rest of my family didn't give a shit about that bowl game). I used to sit in front of the TV and watch that bowl game with youthful glee. My favorite Aloha Bowls were the 1993, 1996, and 1999 editions.
I think there should be a Bowl game in Reno. See how that works out. I live in Reno so it's just a thought.
I have memories of seeing Purdue in the 2011 little ceasars bowl
What about the Cherry Bowl at the Silverdome? They had it for 2 seasons. I went to the first with Michigan State losing to Army. My friend Rob scored the only touchdown for Sparty that day.
These games had teams where either the team had no chance of drawing their fans to the game or the game was no where close to being a priority for even the alumni to make the trip.
The Little Caesar’s Hot N Ready Bowl
I remember the tangerine bowl
What about the east west, north south, yankee gray, bowls
Bring back the Cherry and Weedwacker Bowls!!
3:06 Wait... You mean to tell me that an Iowa football team could score more than. 20 points? I don't believe it...
What about the bluebonnet bowl
The international bowl in Toronto is another defunct bowl game
What about the Junior College RC Cola Bowl at the University of Northern Iowa’s UNI Dome?
You forgot the Patroit Bowl played at Valley Forge.
I remember the Minnesota State Screaming Eagles playing the Iowa Hawkeyes there during a blizzard where half the team came down with the flu and they were forced to play their fourth string walk-on quarterback. They lost 71-7 though.
They tried giving away tickets to the Seattle bowl at my highschool in a Seattle suburb, nobody wanted them.
The Home Depot Toilet Bowl
I am thinking these meaningless bowls are not going to last much longer when the 16 team playoffs come around. Just will be zero interest in anything that is not playoff related.
as an oregon fan, i am honored to have had oregon play in the greatest bowl of all time. the SEATTLE BOWL
I actually went to the Seattle bowl game at Safeco Field Safeco also hosted wrestlemania before
B-Dubs bowl all time classic now I think the citrus bowl
There would have been the Toilet Bowl, but I heard that idea got flushed..
*the price is wrong plays*
😂😂😂😂😂
That's because EVERY bowl is now just an advertisement disguised as a game
I would love if you said The International Bowl
Was that in Toronto?
Poulane Weed Eater Bowl was the goat.
Why is the holiday bowl at the baseball stadium now??
Didn't they tear down Qualcom? That's probably why.
For every one that goes defunct, two new ones pop up.
Now you have the Pop Tarts bowl
@@dustinsindledecker154 And the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl
I miss the blockbuster bowl
Half of the current bowl games should not exist anymore. Right now the NCAA has a rule where if you win half your games you are both eligible. And in rare cases, not even that. The Minnesota gophers made a bowl game this year with a 5-7 record. There are 12 games in the regular season. To make a bowl game a team should have to win at least eight games.
Thank goodness next year there’s going to be a 12 team college football playoff. Which will make the college football postseason more meaningful than it ever has been before. As a result, college football will be better than it ever has been before.
OMG I would love to have seen the Seattle bowl in Safeco
Man I miss the old bowl game logos. I'm glad more teams get to play postseason, but the NCAA needs to figure it out. Attendance is going to suffer in a lot of them because how do you draw fans if 2 programs who may not play anywhere near where the game is hosted without it having at least 1 marquee program or a match-up of 2 ranked schools???
they must, it's ridiculous. Negative records can play now.
And for me who's from another culture, the whole system, playoff aside, is close to pointless
What about the Cherry Bowl? Syracuse played Maryland one year.
Also Army beating Michigan St another yr.
I am hoping the X bowl becomes a reality soon
No Bluebonnet Bowl? No Garden State Bowl?
great video bro
I need my Vizio BCS National Championship game
Great content bro, keep this up. Can I give any ideas for future content?
I always wished Cleveland had a college bowl game. Like a 6-6 Big ten team vs the MAC champions or something
Or they would move the Military Bowl to M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.
there was over one hundred not many years back the whole thing is on brink of collapse as players sit for future monetary gain- not sure i blame them-- how about poulon weed eater bowl maybe in shreveport ? i used to like those early dec. mac and c-usa games
are you purposefully doing a Mel Kiper?
You forgot to mention the San Francisco Bowl
There is a new stadium being built in Hawaii
Raycom Sports
Yahoo Soda Bowl
Duff Bowl
Pawtucket Patriot Ale Bowl
Pizza Planet Bowl
Chinpokomon Bowl
Planet Express Bowl
Gary’s Shoes & Accessories Bowl
You forgot about the pecan bowl
Too bad there hasn't been a walnut bowl
Bluebonnet Bowl
How bout a dodger stadium bowl
Refrigerator Bowl
Copper bowl
I believe it's the Guarnateed Rate Bowl now. It went from being the Copper Bowl, then the Insight Bowl, then the Cheez-It Bowl, but then Cheez-It replaced the Russell Athletic Bowl in Orlando, so the sponsorship in Arizona was bought by Guaranteed Rate Mortgage, so now it's the Guaranteed Rate Bowl.
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Sorry , I got mad at you .
You're a good kid. You make great content !
Played safeco while seahawkws field was litterally right there
Any bowl game that wasn't an over commercialized piece of garbage, it doesn't exist anymore.
Man, you didn't even say anything about the Cherry Bowl. That was the original bowl game played at the Pontiac Silverdome the first one was played in 1984 it was Army and Michigan State this was Army's very first Bowl appearance ever they drew 70,000 fans(Silverdome had 80,000 seats) and Army won 10-6. Little side note I think it was Michigan State's first bowl game since the 66 Rose Bowl because this was during the era where it seemed like the Big Ten was only getting two bull bids out of the conference the conference champion of course went to the Rose Bowl to face the pac-10 champion and like the runner-up would get a bowl bid somewhere because there weren't many bulls around at the time at this point in time there was only like 15 bowl games so the top 25 plus the next five made it into a bowl plus you had to have better than a .500 record back then you had to be at least 6-5 to get a bowl bid(college only played 11 game seasons back then). So for Michigan State being in a conference where you have Michigan and Ohio State and each of those teams were generally 7-4 at the worst generally 8-3 or better though. So this was Michigan State's first year to have an opportunity because the Big Ten had more bowl bids given to them.
Great post! Also a good ranked Maryland team beat Syracuse in one of those Cherry Bowl games too.
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