75Crazie
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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.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 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).