First played in 1935, the Sugar Bowl is not only one of the oldest college bowl games in history, but is considered as one of the most popular each and every year since that first game. At its current home in the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Sugar Bowl is a BCS Bowl game which annually plays host to the SEC Champions in a contest against a highly ranked at-large team. Having previously been sponsored by Nokia for quite some time, the Sugar Bowl has gotten themselves a new sponsor and is now known as the Allstate Sugar Bowl. The Sugar Bowl has also held two BCS Championship Games in 2000 and 2004.
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The BCS is a series of five college football bowl games, and created with the intention of ending up with the #1 and #2 ranked teams in the country facing off to determine a true National Champion, while providing four other highly competitive bowl games between eight more of the highest ranked college football teams in the country. The five BCS games are the Fiesta Bowl, the Orange Bowl, the Rose Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, and the BCS National Championship Game.
The Sugar Bowl was created partly as a diversion during the Great Depression, and has also survived other such hurdles as a World War and devastating hurricane. The many stars to have performed in this game have also gone a long way toward erasing the pressing memories of these times; with names like Bobby Layne (1948), Steve Spurrier (1966), Ken Stabler (1967), Archie Manning (1970), Hershel Walker (1981), Dan Marino (1982), and Bo Jackson (1984) just to name a few of the past MVPs, who can deny that the legendary Sugar Bowl is definitely one of the most successful college football events in American sports history.
Between the history of the game and the history of Bourbon Street, is there any better place for true college football fans to ring in the New Year? The answer is obvious, and that is why you need to get your Allstate Sugar Bowl tickets and come to the game in New Orleans on January 1, 2010.