A Day With the College Bowl Games

   Now that College Bowl game season is in full season, it time for us to take a look at one day of its history.
   Our December 27th look begins with 1952 when Sam Houston State beat Northeastern State 41-20 in the only Shrimp Bowl game ever played. The game was played at Galveston, Texas.
   We jump ahead to 1971 when Arizona State hosted Florida State at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe in the first Fiesta Bowl Game ever played. The Sun Devils won the game by a score of 45-38. 
   Exactly four years later, on Dececmber 27, 1975 at New Orleans; Louisiana Southern University beat South Carolina State 15-12 in the last Pelican Bowl game ever played.
  Finally on December 27, 2002 at Reliant Stadium, Houston, Texas; Oklahoma State beat Southern Mississippi State by a score of 33-23 in the first Houston Bowl game to be played. The Texas Bowl is considered by many to be a name change from this game.
   This year 35 bowl games will be played over a 3.5 week period, we will have more days like this one in the next few days as well over a 100 differently named bowl games have been played since the first bowl game was played in 1902. Tomorrow we will however go back to the NFL and take historical look at one of their games. On Tuesday baseball will show us the beginning of one of its famous wars. On Wednesday we will look at the opening of the Forum in Inglewood, California and on Friday a look at the famous Ice Bowl game.