Bowl game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In North America, a bowl game is one of a number of post- season college football games that are primarily played by teams belonging to the NCAA's Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).
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Prior to 2. 00. 2, bowl game statistics were not included in players' career totals and the games were mostly considered to be exhibition games involving a payout to participating teams, which had to meet strict eligibility requirements. The bowl games proliferated in place of the historic lack of a post- season tournament to determine an annual national champion in the FBS.
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This number of bowl games has grown in recent years, climbing to 3. The increase in games allows virtually every team with a non- losing record to play in a bowl game. With the increase to 3. NCAA has eased the bowl eligibility rules to make teams with a losing record fully eligible to participate without the need to apply for a waiver. The term "bowl" originated from the Rose Bowl stadium, site of the first post- season college football games. The Rose Bowl Stadium, in turn, takes its name and bowl- shaped design from the Yale Bowl, the prototype of many football stadiums in the United States. The term has since become almost synonymous with any major American football event, generally collegiate football with some significant exceptions.
Two examples are the Egg Bowl, the name of the annual matchup between the Mississippi State. Bulldogs and the Ole Miss. Rebels, and the Iron Bowl, a nickname given to the annual game between the Alabama. Crimson Tide and the Auburn. Tigers. In professional football, the names of the National Football League (NFL)'s "Super Bowl" and "Pro Bowl" are references to college football bowl games.
The use of the term has crossed over into professional and collegiate Canadian football. A notable example is the annual Banjo Bowl between the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Canadian Interuniversity Sport plays two semi- final "bowl games" before the Vanier Cup national championship game, the Uteck Bowl and the Mitchell Bowl. The matchups are determined on a conference rotation basis, with the Uteck Bowl being played at the easternmost host team, while the Mitchell is at the westernmost host team. History[edit]The history of the bowl game began with the 1. Tournament East- West football game, sponsored by the Tournament of Roses Association between Michigan and Stanford, a game which Michigan won 4.
The Tournament of Roses eventually sponsored an annual contest starting with the 1. Tournament East- West Football Game. With the 1. 92. 3 Rose Bowl it began to be played at the newly completed Rose Bowl stadium, and thus the contest itself became known as the Rose Bowl game.
The name "bowl" to describe the games thus comes from the Rose Bowl stadium. Other cities saw the promotional value for tourism that the Tournament of Roses parade and Rose Bowl carried and began to develop their own regional festivals which included college football games. The label "bowl" was attached to the festival name, even though the games were not always played in bowl- shaped stadiums.
The historic timing of bowl games, around the new year, is the result of two factors—warm climate and ease of travel. The original bowls began in warm climates such as Southern California, Louisiana, Florida and Texas as a way to promote the area for tourism and business. Since commercial air travel was either non- existent or very limited, the games were scheduled well after the end of the regular season to allow fans to travel to the game site.[1] While modern travel is more convenient, all but 5 of 3.
Ferentz got to Iowa in '99 and promptly went 1-10, but since then the Hawkeyes have won two Big Ten championships and six bowl games, including the Orange Bowl in 2009. Iowa has gone 8-5, 4-8, and 7-6 in the last three seasons. CollegeFootballPoll.com weekly review of college football games and predictions based on the Congrove Computer Rankings. FBS: Virginia Tech's 23 consecutive bowl games. While it was nearly snapped in 2015, the Virginia Tech Hokies have been invited to 23 consecutive bowl games, the longest active streak recognized by the NCAA. The.
N. Currently, college football bowl games are played from mid- December to early January. As the number of bowl games has increased, the number of games a team would need to win to be invited to a bowl game has decreased. With a 1. 2- game schedule, a team may have six wins and be invited to a bowl game. As of the completion of the 2. University of Alabama has played in more bowl games than any other school, with 6. Alabama also holds the record for most bowl victories with 3. The Nebraska Cornhuskers hold the record for longest streak of consecutive bowl game appearances at 3.
The longest active streak is Florida State with 3. The Rose Bowl was the only major college bowl game in 1. By 1. 94. 0, there were five major college bowl games: the Rose Bowl, the Sugar Bowl (1.
Many fans have criticized the growing number of bowl games, calling many of them pointless. Reasons include many of the games having corporate sponsors as their name (e.g. the Meineke Bowl) or featuring teams which had a.
Post-Spring College Football Bowl Game Predictions for 2016-17 Season By Brian Pedersen, Featured Columnist May 4, 2016. The Rose Bowl Game is an annual American college football bowl game, usually played on January 1 (New Year's Day) at the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California. When New Year's Day falls on a Sunday, the game is played on.
Cotton Bowl Classic (1. Orange Bowl (1. 93.
Sun Bowl (1. 93. 5). By 1. 95. 0, the number had increased to eight games. In 1. 96. 0 there were still eight major college bowl games, but by 1.
The number continued to increase, to 1. Up until around the 1. New Years Day, with the only major exception being the holiday occurring on a Sunday. In the late 1. 95. December. Also bowl games began to be set in cities which were not thought of as winter vacation destinations due to their colder climates. The attendance of 1. Rose Bowl set the Rose Bowl Stadium record, as well as the NCAA bowl game attendance record.[3][4] The Rose Bowl stadium still is the largest capacity stadium and the Rose Bowl game has the highest attendance for post season bowl games.
In the 1. 99. 0s, many bowl games began to modify or abandon their traditional names in favor of selling naming rights. While some include the traditional name in some form (e. Rose Bowl Game presented by Vizio), others have totally eliminated their traditional name in favor of solely using their corporate sponsor's name (e. Citrus Bowl became the Capital One Bowl for some time after the financial services company Capital One bought the naming rights). Prior to 1. 99. 2 most bowls had strict agreements with certain conferences. For example, the Rose Bowl traditionally invited the champions of the Pac- 1.
Big Ten conferences. The Sugar Bowl invited the SEC champion and the Orange Bowl hosted the Big 8 conference champion. These conference tie- ins led to situations where the top- ranked teams in the country could not play each other in a bowl game. The national championship was decided after the bowls, solely by voters for various media polls, who tried to decide which team was best, sometimes based on wins against far inferior teams. As a result, there could be multiple championship titles and no single champion. This led to the term "Mythical National Championship," which is still used to describe high school national champions, since high school sports have state championship tournaments but not national.
Attempts to determine a national champion[edit]Because of the vested economic interests entrenched in the various bowl games, the longer regular season compared to lower divisions of college football, and a desire not to have college players play several rounds of playoff games during final exams and winter recess, the Division I Bowl Subdivision long avoided instituting a playoff tournament to determine an annual national champion. Instead, the National Champion in the Football Bowl Subdivision has traditionally been determined by a vote of sports writers and other non- players. In 1. 99. 5, the Bowl Alliance, formed by the major bowls and conferences, put in place a system where the two highest ranked teams would play each other, even if they were each affiliated with a different bowl. However, the Pac- 1.
Big Ten and the Rose Bowl did not participate. Number 1 vs Number 2 bowl match- ups became far more likely, but were not guaranteed. After the 1. 99. 7 season, undefeated Michigan was ranked first in both major polls, but as the Big Ten champion, they played eighth- ranked Pac- 1. Washington State in the Rose Bowl. The top Bowl Alliance team, #2 and unbeaten Nebraska, faced one- loss, third- ranked Tennessee in the Orange Bowl.
Michigan won by five on New Year's Day and the next night, Nebraska beat Tennessee (playing with an injury- hobbled Peyton Manning) by 2. The AP kept Michigan as the champion, but the Coaches' Poll jumped Nebraska, playing its final game for retiring coach Tom Osborne, in part because of their more lopsided victory against a more highly ranked opponent. The following season, the Rose Bowl, Pac- 1. Big Ten joined the other bowls and major conferences to form the Bowl Championship Series.
The BCS attempted to match the two highest ranked teams in the country based upon calculations from various sources, including statistics and coaches' polls, with one of the four bowl games in the consortium (the Rose Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Sugar Bowl and Orange Bowl) rotating the role of "national championship", or beginning in 2. BCS Championship Game rotated among the BCS venues. The BCS Championship Game, while separate from the four main bowls, was still rotated between their sites. The Coaches Poll was contractually obligated to recognize the winner of the game as its national champion. However, other polls such as the AP Poll may deviate and pick a different team, particularly in years when multiple teams were equally worthy of reaching the game, such as in 2. LSU won the BCS National Championship over Oklahoma, but the AP crowned one- loss USC champion after its Rose Bowl win.
For the 2. 01. 4- 1. BCS was replaced by a new consortium, the College Football Playoff. The new system uses a four- team single- elimination tournament, with its participants selected and seeded by a committee; the semi- final games are rotated between pairs of the six member bowls yearly (Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl, then Orange Bowl and Cotton Bowl Classic, and then the Fiesta Bowl and Peach Bowl). The winners from the two semi- final bowls advance to the College Football Playoff National Championship, which is played at a neutral site determined using bids.
Members of the "New Year's Six" which are not hosting semi- final games revert to their traditional tie- ins. Professional bowl games[edit]The National Football League also used the name "bowl" for some of its playoff games.
NCAA's longest active winning and postseason streaks. There have been plenty of impressive streaks produced throughout the history of the NCAA. Most remember the incredible 8. John Wooden and UCLA in the 1. Oklahoma Sooners winning 4.
Programs still strive to complete large winning or tournament streaks like those and some continue to succeed at it today. Let's take a look these seven active streaks and how they stand up. Note: The streaks and rankings below are reflected at the time of publication, Feb. Men's basketball: No. Kansas' 3. 8 straight home wins. Arizona and Wichita State both saw their home- court streaks end within the past month. So who has the bragging rights in Division I now?
Well, that would be none other than Bill Self and Kansas. As of Feb. 1. 5, the Jayhawks have won 3. Allen Fieldhouse, which produces one of the toughest environments for any road team. During the Self era, only nine teams have come away from the Phog with a win.
San Diego State was the last team to defeat Kansas at home after its 6. Jan. 5, 2. 01. 4. To see the last time Kansas lost a Big 1. Feb. 2, 2. 01. 3 when Oklahoma State snapped the Jayhawks' 3.
Having the longest active home- win streak isn't the only one the Jayhawks can claim. It also has won 1. NCAA tournament appearance streak at 2.
MORE: 5 toughest active places to win at in college basketball. Women's basketball: No. UConn's 6. 3- game winning streak. Coach Geno Auriemma and the UConn women's basketball team are no strangers to producing streaks that reach massive numbers. The program set the NCAA record with its 9.
Nov. 2. 00. 8 until Dec. Now, the current Huskies squad is well on their way to possibly doing it again. UConn's current streak has reached 6. Cincinnati and East Carolina over the past week. It is the third- longest streak in NCAA women's basketball history, just behind UConn's 7. The last time the Huskies dropped a game before the current streak started was a 6.
Notre Dame in the Big East championship on March 1. The Huskies' last home loss occurred just a few weeks prior against Baylor. DI Baseball: Miami's 4. NCAA regional appearances. Under the leadership of Ron Frazer and currently Jim Morris, Miami hasn't missed the NCAA baseball postseason in more than four decades. The Hurricanes earned their NCAA- record 4. College World Series.
The last time Miami wasn't selected to participate was back in 1. Frazer's 1. 0th season.
The Hurricanes have captured four titles in 2. CWS appearances during the current streak. RELATED: Canes' Willie Abreu stays strong after mother's stroke. Women's ice hockey: No.
Boston College's 3. Since its tournament loss to Harvard last year, the Boston College women's ice hockey team has been unstoppable. The Eagles are currently riding a 3. Over the course of its streak, Boston College has scored 1. Alex Carpenter and Haley Skarupa.
Carpenter leads the team with 7. Skarupa is second with 6. The Eagles have shutout 1.
Katie Burt, who has recorded a program- best 1. Burt also holds the overall program record with her 2.
With its 9- 1 win over Providence on Saturday, Boston College completed the first perfect conference season in the Hockey East history and pushed its streak to 3. Boston College still trails Minnesota though on the all- time NCAA women's hockey record. The Golden Gophers produced a 6. Feb. 1. 8, 2. 01. Nov. 1. 7, 2. 01.
FBS: Virginia Tech's 2. While it was nearly snapped in 2. Virginia Tech Hokies have been invited to 2. NCAA. The program that comes the closest is Georgia with its 1. Virginia Tech started the streak under former head coach Frank Beamer back with its win in the 1. Independence Bowl.
Beamer retired following the Hokies' latest bowl appearance in 2. Independence Bowl. Virginia Tech has come away with 1. FCS: North Dakota State's five- peat. Winning back- to- back titles is difficult enough for any program to accomplish. But to put together a 5- game national championship winning streak? North Dakota State has completed the impossible it seems like.
NDSU is the only football program to win five straight national championships. The Bison have outscored opponents 1. Only time will tell if the Bison can continue its current streak, but if they do win a sixth consecutive title, would any of us be surprised? DIII Football: Mount Union's 1. For another offseason, the streak is still intact for Division III powerhouse Mount Union.
The Purple Raiders extended their regular- season streak to 1. Division III national championship.
Mount Union hasn't lost during the regular season since the Purple Raiders were defeated by Ohio Northern 2. Oct. 2. 2, 2. 00. The Purple Raiders will have the chance in 2.