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Alamo Bowl - Definition and Overview

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MasterCard Alamo Bowl logo


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Sylvania Alamo Bowl logo

The Alamo Bowl is a major post-season United States college football bowl game played annually since 1993 in the 65,000-seat Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. It usually matches the fourth-choice (not necessarily fourth-place) teams from the Big Ten Conference and the Big Twelve Conference.

The game was previously known as the Builders Square Alamo Bowl (1993-1998), the Sylvania Alamo Bowl (1999-2001) and is currently known as the MasterCard Alamo Bowl (2002-present).

There was also a bowl game called the Alamo Bowl played once, on January 4, 1947. Hardin Simmons defeated Denver 20-0.

Previous results

Date Played Winning Team Losing Team
December 31, 1993 California 37 Iowa 3
December 31, 1994 Washington State 10 Baylor 3
December 28, 1995 Texas A&M 22 Michigan 20
December 29, 1996 Iowa 27 Texas Tech 0
December 30, 1997 Purdue 33 Oklahoma State 20
December 29, 1998 Purdue 37 Kansas State 34
December 28, 1999 Penn State 24 Texas A&M 0
December 30, 2000 Nebraska 66 Northwestern 17
December 29, 2001 Iowa 19 Texas Tech 16
December 28, 2002 Wisconsin 31 Colorado 28
December 29, 2003 Nebraska 17 Michigan State 3
December 29, 2004 Ohio State 33 Oklahoma State 7

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2004-05 Division I-A College football Bowl Game season:

New Orleans (Dec. 14) | Champs Sports (Dec. 21) | GMAC (Dec. 22) | Fort Worth (Dec. 23) | Las Vegas (Dec. 23) | Hawaii (Dec. 24) | MPC Computers (Dec. 27) | Motor City (Dec. 27) | Independence (Dec. 28) | Insight (Dec. 28) | Houston (Dec. 29) | Alamo (Dec. 29) | Continental Tire (Dec. 30) | Emerald (Dec. 30) | Holiday (Dec. 30) | Silicon Valley (Dec. 30) | Music City (Dec. 31) | Sun (Dec. 31) | Liberty (Dec. 31) | Peach (Dec. 31) | Outback (Jan. 1) | Cotton (Jan. 1) | Gator (Jan. 1) | Capital One (Jan. 1) | East-West Shrine Game (Jan. 15) | Gridiron Classic (Jan. 15) | Hula Bowl (Jan. 22) | Senior Bowl (Jan. 29)


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Bowl Championship Series

 Bowl Championship Series games:

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Rose Bowl

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Tostitos Fiesta Bowl

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Nokia Sugar Bowl

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FedEx Orange Bowl

Rose Bowl (Jan. 1) Fiesta Bowl (Jan. 1) Sugar Bowl (Jan. 3) Orange Bowl (Jan. 4)


Example Usage of Alamo
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NUfan9: How in the world did people remeber the Alamo before post-it notes?
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