2024 FB Bowl Watch

My CFB consciousness began in the early 70s, and I believe there were 11 bowl games in place then:

Rose
Cotton
Sugar
Orange
Fiesta
Peach
Sun
Gator
Liberty
Tangerine (became the Citrus and gained stature with the opening of Disney World)
Bluebonnet (played in the Astrodome)
I remember the Fiesta Bowl being the new kid on the block in the early 70s, and the Peach Bowl I believe was fairly new at that time also. The others I think were hoary even then.

I guess the only other ones I remember at that time were the all-star bowls (Senior, East-West, Blue-Gray, Hula, might have been some others).
 
Wasn’t there also something in Atlantic City indoors at the convention center? With the end zones shortened? Boardwalk Bowl, IIRC?
 
Yes. I recalled correctly.

That's wild.
The Boardwalk Bowl, along with the Liberty Bowl (played at Convention Hall in December 1964), showed the feasibility of playing football indoors and led the promoters of football games to look seriously at developing indoor facilities primarily for this purpose.

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