The Outback Bowl is an annual New Year's Day college football
bowl game played at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. The
event was originally called the Hall of Fame Bowl from 1986 to 1994
until being renamed in 1995 for its new title sponsor, Outback
Steakhouse.
The Outback Bowl is not Tampa's first bowl game, as the Cigar
Bowl was played at old Phillips Field near downtown from
1947–1954. However, the earlier event matched small college
teams, so the Outback Bowl was the first major bowl game to be
played in the area. (A notable participant in the 1950 Cigar Bowl
was Florida State, but the FSU football program had just begun at
the time and they were not yet considered a major college
team.)
The Hall of Fame Bowl was held at Legion Field in Birmingham,
Alabama from 1977–1985. In the spring of 1986, the National
Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame decided to
discontinue their association with the bowl and realign with a new
bowl game to be played in Tampa Stadium which would inherit the
Hall of Fame Bowl name. The bowl did not have agreements to bring
in teams from particular conferences in its early years but often
matched a school from either the Southeastern Conference or the
Atlantic Coast Conference against a team from another region.
N 38° 32.ABC
A = The Perdue Boilermakers have won
(A) Outback Bowls up to 2010.
B = The Duke Blue Devils have been to
(B) Outback Bowls up to 2010.
C = The 198(C) Outback Bowl MVP was
(TB) Jamie Morris from the Michigan Wolverines.
W 121° 17.DEF
D = January 1, 1991; Clemson beat Illinois 30
to (D) in the Outback Bowl.
E = The Outback Bowl will continue to invite
the (E) pick of teams from the Big Ten to face the
(E) pick from the SEC.
F = January 1, 2003; Michigan beat Florida
3(F) to 30 in the Outback Bowl.
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