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  djournal.com
Ole Miss is playing in the Cotton Bowl for the third time but for the first time since 1962.
Ole Miss has played in a bowl game five of the last six seasons, but those bowls have been the Motor City, Independence and Music City, each of which has a significantly lower payoff for participating teams.
Bowl money goes to the SEC and is divided among the 12 schools.
www.djournal.com /pages/story.asp?ID=48460&pub=1&div=Sports   (654 words)

  
 Bluebonnet
The teams have met once in the postseason, a 24-14 OSU victory in the 1983 Bluebonnet Bowl at the Astrodome in Houston.
This year he was superintendent of the Bluebonnet 4-H Show, helped with the Lamb and Goat Show and Clinic in Denton County, served as a Denton County 4-H...
Nance left the University of Houston in 1979 and ultimately became the executive director of college football's Bluebonnet Bowl, where he was able to work with...
conservation.mongabay.com /Bluebonnet.htm   (1936 words)

  
 Bluebonnet Bowl Team of 1964 Revolutionized the Game of Football :: By Stephanie Ellis, Athletic Media Relations ...
Tulsa and Mississippi set several Bluebonnet Bowl records including: Most passing first downs by both teams (14), most passes attempted by both teams (60), most yards gained by both teams (365), and most total plays by both teams (126).
The 1964 Bluebonnet Bowl team will not only be remembered for their impressive and shocking win over the Ole Miss Rebels, but also their efforts to transform the game of college football.
Instead, they followed in the footsteps of the Bluebonnet Bowl team of 1964 and went for the long bomb on first down.
tulsahurricane.collegesports.com /sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/101703aaa.html   (1067 words)

  
 Archived conservation news articles on Bluebonnet
Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative says it is raising its rates to keep pace with fuel charges that have escalated dramatically in recent months.
Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative is planning to build a new headquarters facility on a 452-acre campus near Bastrop, moving it from Giddings.
I was a bluebonnet with a tall headdress.
conservation.mongabay.com /news/Bluebonnet.htm   (12114 words)

  
 Bluebonnet Bowl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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A round hair cut (also known as pudding bowl or bowl cut).
A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Bluebonnet_Bowl.html   (163 words)

  
 Tulsa to Induct Three Former Athletes and Bluebonnet Bowl Team into Athletic Hall of Fame :: Banquet for honorees is ...
Tulsa, Oklahoma - The University of Tulsa's Bluebonnet Bowl team and three former Golden Hurricane student-athletes will be inducted into The University of Tulsa's Athletic Hall of Fame on Friday, October 3, 2004, at 6:30 p.m., in ceremonies at the Allen Chapman Activity Center on the TU campus, it was announced today.
Legendary coach Glenn Dobbs led the Golden Hurricane to a 9-2 overall record and an appearance in the Bluebonnet Bowl in the 1964 season.
TU finished the season with a win over Mississippi in the Bluebonnet Bowl by a score of 14-7.
tulsahurricane.collegesports.com /genrel/092303aaa.html   (1460 words)

  
 CNN.com - Remembering dearly departed bowl games - Jan. 1, 2003
As college football's glut of 28 bowl games meanders toward a conclusion, it might be appropriate to pause for a moment and remember some not-so dearly departed postseason classics.
A few of the many once-marginal, now-defunct bowl games demonstrated admirable staying power: Witness the Bluebonnet Bowl in Houston, which lasted from 1959 to 1987, and the Aloha Bowl, a Hawaii staple from 1982 to 2000.
Then there were the one-year wonders like the Bluegrass Bowl in 1958 in Louisville, Kentucky, and Aviation Bowl in 1961 in Dayton, Ohio.
www.cnn.com /2003/EDUCATION/01/01/disappearing.bowls.ap/index.html   (786 words)

  
 MSN Encarta
Sure, there are a lot of guys and gals who can recall obscure facts about particular college bowl games played years and years ago.
Which of these bowl games is not played in its namesake stadium?
Which of these four classic bowl games is not included in the BCS rotation?
encarta.msn.com /quiz_32/College_Football_Bowl_Quiz.html   (101 words)

  
 Bluebonnet 300 Tickets - Buy Bluebonnet 300 Sports Tickets
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www.perfectseats.com /cheap_asp_eid-94_event-Bluebonnet+300_tickets_feature.htm   (607 words)

  
 WNDU-TV: Sports Story: Pirates stun Texas Tech 40-27 in Gallery Furniture Bowl - December 28, 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A crowd of 33,899 saw the first bowl game played in the Astrodome since the last Bluebonnet Bowl in 1987.
The last college bowl game played in the Astrodome was on Dec. 21, 1987, when Texas defeated Pittsburgh 32-27, ending a 28-year run for the bowl.
Tech's bowl record dropped to 5-18-1, and the Red Raiders have lost five of their last six postseason games.
www.wndu.com /sports/122000/sports_5250.php   (730 words)

  
 Traditions :: The University of Southern California Trojans - Official Athletic Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Trojans have the nation's third highest bowl winning percentage (.651) among the 67 schools which have made at least 10 bowl appearances (behind only Utah's.700 and Georgia Tech's.667).
The Trojans were a bowl participant each year they were eligible from 1972 to 1990.
That's not only the most Rose Bowl wins of any team, but also the most wins by a school in a single bowl.
usctrojans.ocsn.com /trads/usc-rose.html   (220 words)

  
 WVU Varsity Club
Each year the West Virginia University football team is invited to play in a bowl game, Mountaineer fans turn their memories back to quarterback Kevin White’s fantastic performance in the 1984 Bluebonnet Bowl against Texas Christian.
Now on the eve of yet another bowl game West Virginia fans retrieve Kevin White’s Bluebonnet Bowl performance from their memory banks and hope that it will once again be duplicated.
It wasn’t the Orange Bowl, where fans had envisioned their Mountaineers after the Penn State win, but it proved to be a better alternative than shoveling snow in December.
www.wvuvarsityclub.com /profiles/white_kevin.html   (1851 words)

  
 Las Vegas SUN: Columnist Jeff Haney: Motivation can be key to bowl betting
It's a tried-and-true approach, but one that should continue to serve college football bowl bettors well: Determining which teams are highly motivated -- and which are not.
Each year, bowl bettors scramble to pinpoint games that match a disappointed team, possibly ripe for a letdown, against an excited overachiever that's just happy to be there.
A 10-3 mark heading into the Jan. 1 Cotton Bowl doesn't stack up to the undefeated season some were predicting.
www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/archives/2000/dec/06/511134247.html   (968 words)

  
 Pride Of The Tide Universirty Of Alabama Football
The Tide record in those 52 bowls stands at 29-20-3.
The 29 wins are also an NCAA record From 1959 to 1983 the Crimson Tide played in a 25 bowl game at the end of every year, also an NCAA record.
Alabama has participated in 16 different bowl games including six trips to the Rose Bowl.
www.prideofthetide.com /bowls.htm   (99 words)

  
 ESPN.com: NCF - Coker likes bowl system, but Stoops prefers playoff
He spent four years as an assistant coach at Tulsa and seven seasons as an assistant at Oklahoma State, learning that bowl games are better for the majority of teams in the country.
We're going to be in no national championship playoff at all, but we got invited to the Bluebonnet Bowl.
Coker said he might favor a one-game playoff that would take two of the four winners of the BCS bowls and let them play for the title.
espn.go.com /ncf/news/2002/1106/1456889.html   (682 words)

  
 KUsports.com - : Bowl History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
If it's possible to overshadow a bowl victory such as the 51-30 pounding KU gave the UCLA Bruins in the 1995 Aloha bowl on Christmas day in Honolulu, Hawaii, then head coach Glen Mason surely did it.
New Year's Eve, 1981 marked the end of a six-year bowl game drought for the Kansas Jayhawks when they met the Mississippi State Bulldogs in the fifth annual Hall of Fame Bowl in Birmingham, Ala.
Kansas University's first bowl appearance against Georgia Tech in the January 1, 1948 Orange Bowl was a heartbreaker.
www.kusports.com /news/bowl   (515 words)

  
 Ten Stanford Greats To Be Inducted Into Athletic Hall Of Fame Friday :: Representatives from eight sports inducted into ...
Stanford quarterback Don Bunce, who led the Cardinal to a Rose Bowl victory in 1972, is among those inducted into the Class of 2003 Athletic Hall of Fame
One of only two coaches in collegiate water polo history to reach 600 career wins (his career record is 666-209-6).
Rallied Stanford from 22-0 deficit to 25-22 win over Georgia in Bluebonnet Bowl...
gostanford.collegesports.com /genrel/110703aaa.html   (883 words)

  
 www.MackBrown-TexasFootball.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Cotton Bowl - 22: 1943, 1944, 1946, 1951, 1953, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1984, 1991, 1999, 2000, 2003
Bluebonnet Bowl - 6: 1960, 1966, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1987
Sun Bowl - 4: 1978, 1979, 1982, 1994
www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com /pages/winningtrads/bowlgames.html   (44 words)

  
 The `B' Line . . . November 12, 2003 :: 1983 Bluebonnet Bears honored at Homecoming.
Members of the 1983 Baylor Bluebonnet Bowl team took the field for bows at Floyd Casey Stadium at the end of the first quarter of the Homecoming Game against Texas Tech.
The Grant Teaff team took a 7-3-1 record to Houston for the 25th anniversary of the Bluebonnet Bowl only to lose to Oklahoma State 24-14.
Pre-game visitors to the "B" Room had a difficult time concentrating on the Baylor-Tech contest because their attention was focused on TV screens where Oklahoma was breezing to a 77-0 victory over Texas A&M.
baylorbears.ocsn.com /sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/111203aaa.html   (846 words)

  
 bowls
Tennessee ranks 2nd in the Nation in bowl appearances with 45 and ranks 3
1972 Bluebonnet Bowl, Dec. 30, 1972: Tennessee 24 - LSU 17
1979 Bluebonnet Bowl, Dec. 31, 1979: Purdue 27 - Tennessee 22
www.thevib.com /bowls.html   (554 words)

  
 Associate A.D. Scott Schuhmann Honored by Tulsa Athletics Hall of Fame :: Schuhmann was an outside linebacker on ...
Associate A.D. Scott Schuhmann Honored by Tulsa Athletics Hall of Fame :: Schuhmann was an outside linebacker on Tulsa's 1964 Bluebonnet Bowl
Schuhmann was an outside linebacker on Tulsa's 1964 Bluebonnet Bowl
Associate Athletic Director Scott Schuhmann, currently in his 14th year at Stanford, will be honored by the University of Tulsa Athletic Hall of Fame as a member of the Golden Hurricanes 1964 Bluebonnet Bowl team.
gostanford.collegesports.com /genrel/090403aaa.html   (171 words)

  
 HickokSports.com - Biography - John Robinson
He had a 67-14-0 record in 7 seasons there and guided the school to victories in the Rose Bowl in 1976, 1978, and 1979, and in the Bluebonnet Bowl in 1977.
Robinson went to the National Football League's Los Angeles Rams as head coach in 1983 and was named the league's coach of the year after taking the Rams to the playoffs in his first season.
The Rams made the playoffs six times in his nine seasons, but Robinson was replaced after the team went only 3-13 in 1991.
www.hickoksports.com /biograph/robinsonjohn.shtml   (227 words)

  
 Carolina Panthers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
That success came despite the loss of a Pro Bowl punter, but Crossman tutored newcomer Jason Baker to an NFC-leading net punting average of 38.9 yards.
Crossman was named special teams coach in 2005 after serving as an assistant in the professional and college ranks.
He intercepted three passes in the inaugural World Bowl in 1991, returning one interception 20 yards for a touchdown, to earn MVP honors as London shut out Barcelona 21-0.
www.panthers.com /team/coachbio.jsp?id=5060   (568 words)

  
 HawkZone - powered by CJOnline.com
Jon Cornish scored on a 30-yard shovel pass and Mark Simmons on a 32-yard strike within a span of less than eight minutes in the third quarter.
Bill Whittemore's career as quarterback at Kansas, where he built a school record by taking part in 50 career touchdowns and finished fourth all-time in total offense, ended with an interception.
There were less than 77,719 witnesses to the awful things that happened to Kansas in the final 88 seconds because several thousand fans had gone home -- thinking the Jayhawks had won it.
www.hawkzone.com /football/bowl   (609 words)

  
 Bluebonnet Bowl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
'''Bluebonnet Bowl''' was an annual college football bowl game played in Houston, Texas.
It was held at Rice Stadium from 1959 through 1967, and again in 1985 and 1986.
The game was discontinued following that season due to poor ticket sales.
bluebonnet-bowl.ask.dyndns.dk   (58 words)

  
 Tulane University Magazine
For Coleman Dupre (AandS ’74) and Dennis Delaney (AandS ’75), the Liberty Bowl was a way to relive their own football careers with the Green Wave.
Dupre was a wide receiver and Delaney a lineman for a good Tulane team that went to the Astro Bluebonnet Bowl.
With a 41-27 victory and a Liberty Bowl trophy in its possession, the Tulane team seemed as reluctant to leave the field as the fans were to leave the stadium.
www2.tulane.edu /feature_undefeated_2.cfm   (609 words)

  
 Raiders milestone something special - Former Tech greats salute achievement
The Red Raiders started the string of postseason appearances in 1993 in the John Hancock Bowl and followed that up with a Southwest Conference co-championship and a Cotton Bowl appearance in 1994.
The Raiders finished the season 10-2 after a 27-24 to Nebraska in the Bluebonnet Bowl.
After losing in the 1977 Tangerine Bowl to Florida State, the Raiders traveled to just two bowl games in the next 15 seasons, the 1986 Independence Bowl and the 1989 All-American Bowl.
www.lubbockonline.com /news/122896/former.htm   (608 words)

  
 Oklahoma Bowl History - Your Oklahoma Tickets
At a school where the bowl history is laced with games of historical significance, the last few years have represented another fabulous roll for the Schooner.
When Oklahoma won the 2003 Rose Bowl, it became one of only four schools to earn victories in all four BCS games plus the Cotton Bowl.
Regardless of the location, Sooner fans flock to follow a bowl tradition that is as fresh as it is historic.
www.your-oklahoma-tickets.com /bowls.htm   (564 words)

  
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He won a Super Bowl title with the Green Bay Packers in 1996 and is the NFL’s only three-time Most Valuable Player honoree.
As a college quarterback, Allison led Texas Tech to three Bowl Games - the 1974 Peach Bowl, the 1976 Bluebonnet Bowl and the 1977 Tangerine Bowl.
In 1977, he was nominated for the Heisman Trophy.
www.gomocs.com /article_print.asp?articleid=38445   (856 words)

  
 www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
· Cotton Bowl - 22: 1943, 1944, 1946, 1951, 1953, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1984, 1991, 1999, 2000, 2003
· 1960 Bluebonnet Bowl: Texas 3, #9 Alabama 3
· 1975 Bluebonnet Bowl: #9 Texas 38, #10 Colorado 21
www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com /index.php?s=&url_channel_id=36&url_subchannel_id=&url_article_id=26&change_well_id=2   (543 words)

  
 Player Bio: Spike Dykes :: Football
...the only coach in 56 years to lead Texas Tech to the Cotton Bowl.
His success is quite an accomplishment when considering Dykes took over a program that had experienced only one winning season in the previous eight years.
He's helped make it so competitive that the Red Raiders played in a school-record four consecutive bowls games in the 1990s and in six overall during his 13-year tenure.
texastech.ocsn.com /sports/m-footbl/mtt/dykes_spike00.html   (747 words)

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