The Sugar Bowl is an annual college football bowl game played in New Orleans, Louisiana. Played annually since January 1, 1935, it is tied with the Orange Bowl and Sun Bowl as the second-oldest bowl games in the country. The Sugar Bowl was originally played at Tulane Stadium before moving to the Superdome in 1975. Since 2007, the game has been sponsored by Allstate and officially known as the Allstate Sugar Bowl.
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The Sugar Bowl is an annual college football bowl game played in New Orleans, Louisiana. Played annually since January 1, 1935, it is tied with the Orange Bowl and Sun Bowl as the second-oldest bowl games in the country. The Sugar Bowl was originally played at Tulane Stadium before moving to the Superdome in 1975. Since 2007, the game has been sponsored by Allstate and officially known as the Allstate Sugar Bowl. Since 2015, the Sugar Bowl, along with the Rose, Orange, Cotton, Peach, and Fiesta bowls, is one of the \”New Year’s Six\” bowls in rotation for the College Football Playoff. It hosted a playoff semifinal following the 2014 and 2017 seasons, and will next host one following the 2020 season. In other years, it will feature the best available teams from SEC and the Big 12 conferences, an arrangement nearly identical with the relationship between the Rose Bowl and the champions of the Big Ten and Pac-12. As a member of the Bowl Championship Series, it hosted the BCS National Championship Game twice, in 2000 and 2004, as the national championship rotated between the bowls themselves until 2006 when the national Championship game became a standalone event. Much controversy preceded the 1956 Sugar Bowl when the Pitt Panthers, with African-American fullback Bobby Grier on the roster, met the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.
In November 1967, Georgia Tech’s Blake R Van Leer threatened to resign from the board of regents over whether Grier should be allowed to play on the field due to his race. The game went on as planned on November 30, 1967, with Georgia Tech scoring a touchdown in the first quarter. In the second quarter, Pitt scored a field goal to win the game, and the game was postponed until the next day. The third and final game was played on November 29, 1968, with Pitt winning by a score of 17-0. The final game of the season was held on December 31, 1969, and was played at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia. It was the first of three consecutive Sugar Bowls to feature an SEC team. The SEC’s opponent varied from year to year, but prior to the advent of the bowl championship series, it was often the runner-up of theBig Eight, SWC, or a major independent. In 1902, the annual festival was enhanced by adding a football game. In 1926, leaders in Miami, Florida, decided to do the same with a \”Fiesta of the American Tropics\” that was centered around a New Year’s Day football game and named it the Palm Festival.
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