Holiday Bowl - Get Tickets
The Holiday Bowl (get Holiday Bowl tickets) is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I-A college football bowl game that has been played annually at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California, since 1978. The game is currently sponsored by Pacific Life Insurance and is officially known as the Pacific Life Holiday Bowl. The game pits the 2nd place Pacific Ten Conference (Pac-10) team against the 3rd place Big 12 Conference team.
Over the years, the Holiday Bowl (get Holiday Bowl tickets) had earned a well deserved reputation as one of the most entertaining games of the post-season schedule. The game also serves as an annual economic boon to the San Diego Community.
History of the Holiday Bowl
The Holiday Bowl (get Holiday Bowl tickets), initially, was conceived to annually feature the Western Athletic Conference champion against a nationally-ranked opponent. The first game pitted the Navy Midshipmen against the Brigham Young University. Navy beat BYU with a final score of 23-16.
Always a financial success, the $200,000 payouts to each school from the original Holiday Bowl (get Holiday Bowl) have grown past the $2 million mark in recent years. Since its inauguration, the game has played to more than 90% of capacity.
Some Holiday Bowl trivia
- Previous title sponsors of the Holiday Bowl (get Holiday Bowl tickets) have been Sea World, Thrifty Car Rental, Plymouth and Culligan.
- The 1980 Holiday Bowl featured one of the most exciting four minutes in NCAA (get NCAA football tickets) history when BYU erased a 20 point Southern Methodist lead to win on the final play.
- Oklahoma's victory in 2005 was vacated as penalty for having two ineligible players on the team. As a result, there is officially no winner to that game.
- Of the 29 Holiday Bowls (get Holiday Bowl tickets) played, 17 had victory margins of one touchdown or less and the outcome of 19 games was decided in the final two minutes.
An overview of the 2007 Holiday Bowl
The 2007 Holiday Bowl was played on December 27 at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego and pitted Texas Longhorns against the Arizona State Sun Devils. Texas won 52–34 and set Holiday Bowl records for the earliest score and for most points scored in the first quarter.
2008 Holiday Bowl
The 2008 Holiday Bowl (get Holiday Bowl tickets) will be played in December 2008 at the Qualcomm Stadium.
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