The outcome of the game soured the Tournament of Roses committee on football, and it was not until 1916 that football was again included as part of the festivities.The game is considered the first-ever postseason bowl game in college football....
Ralph Friedgen led the team for his fourth season as head coach.It proved to be his first as a head coach without a postseason bowl game appearance.The following players were selected in the 2005 NFL Draft....
The Redmen repeated as conference champions, and earned an appearance in the, which at the time served as the NCAA Atlantic Coast Small College Championship.This would be the first postseason bowl game in team history.Though the Redmen jumped out to an early 13-0 lead, they tired late and fell to East Carolina, 14-13....
It was the third season under the direction of Head Coach Dave Wannstedt.It was also the third consecutive season without a postseason bowl game.The Panthers schedule included six home games and six road games....
It was originally sponsored by Mitsubishi and known as the Mirage Bowl and later The Coca-Cola Company when it was renamed for the soft drink Coca-Cola Classic.Because the game was merely a re-location of a regular season game, it was not considered a traditional, postseason bowl game....
On the day following the Baylor game, Harrell underwent a four-hour surgery, in which 17 pins and two plates were inserted into his injured hand to heal nine different breaks.He was later cleared to play in the postseason bowl game....
That game began play at the end of the 1966 season and came to be known as the Super Bowl.College football maintained a tradition of postseason bowl games.Each bowl game would be associated with a particular conference, and earning a spot in a bowl game was the reward for winning a conference....
Maryland and Oklahoma were head coached by former colleagues Jim Tatum and Bud Wilkinson, respectively, who had previously coached together at the United States Navy's Iowa Pre-Flight School and the University of Oklahoma.The game was the first postseason bowl game in which the players were required to play on both the offense and defense.This was a result of the NCAA's newly instituted "one-platoon" rules that limited player substitutions....
Wisconsin would not make a postseason bowl game for the first time since the 1992 season.As a result of college football's adoption of an overtime beginning with the 1995 bowl season and the 1996 regular season, Wisconsin's 3-3 tie against Illinois is the last tied game in school history, as well as the last tied game in NCAA Division I-A history....
With Nebraska's victory over Missouri in the final league meeting of these teams on October 30, 2010, Nebraska's Memorial Stadium became the apparent final home of the Victory Bell, though a commemorative bell will be produced for permanent display at the University of Missouri.It is possible that the Victory Bell could change hands again if the teams meet in a future non-conference game or postseason bowl game....
Maryland made one final poll appearance after the win over North Carolina, before losing to Florida State.At the end of the regular season, but before the postseason bowl game, Maryland lost two members of its coaching staff.On December 5, 2008, the school announced that defensive coordinator Chris Cosh would return to Kansas State to take over as assistant coach and co-defensive coordinator....
The Manning Award has been presented annually since 2004 to the collegiate American football quarterback adjudged by the Sugar Bowl Committee to be the best in the United States.It is the only quarterback award that includes each candidate's postseason-bowl performance in its balloting.The award is named in honor of former University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) quarterback Archie Manning and his quarterback sons Peyton and Eli....
The last meeting between the two was a 29-20 Notre Dame victory in 1990.This was the first ever postseason bowl meeting between the Irish and the Hurricanes....
The 1935 LSU squad finished the regular season 9-1 and as SEC champions with loss coming against in the season opener.The Sugar Bowl appearance marked the first ever postseason bowl game for LSU.The 1935 TCU squad finished the regular season with a record of 11-1....
In the playoffs, William & Mary has reached the national semifinals two times (2004 and 2009), and in each of those seasons won a program record 11 wins.Previously in the Tribe's history they have also earned three postseason bowl game appearances, compiling one win and two losses.There have also been 11 conference championships and one division championship; four of the conference titles and the lone division title have been won under current head coach Jimmye Laycock, who has been the head coach since 1980....
Genyk was part of three Big Ten championship teams, and four postseason bowl games at Northwestern.
William & Mary finished the regular season with a 9-2 record, but because they chose to participate in their second-ever Epson Ivy Bowl against Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan, the Tribe were forced to forfeit their qualification to participate in the 1992 Division I-AA playoffs.The postseason bowl game, due to it being an international match and not sanctioned by the NCAA, does not count toward their win-loss records....
