1959–60 NCAA football bowl games
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Season | 1959 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of bowls | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All-star games | Blue–Gray Football Classic East–West Shrine Game North–South Shrine Game Senior Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowl games | December 19, 1959 – January 2, 1960[a] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Champions | Syracuse (AP, Coaches, FWAA, NFF) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1959–60 NCAA football bowl games were a series of post-season games played in December 1959 and January 1960 to end the 1959 college football season. A total of nine team-competitive games,[1] and four all-star games, were played. The post-season began on December 19 with the Bluebonnet Bowl and Liberty Bowl, and concluded on January 9, 1960, with the season-ending Senior Bowl all-star game.
Schedule
The following table lists bowl games involving University Division teams;[b] bowl games at lower levels are listed in the See also section.
The nine team-competitive bowls consisted of seven played the prior season (the eighth, the Bluegrass Bowl, did not return) plus the first editions of the Bluebonnet Bowl and Liberty Bowl.
Source:[6]
See also
Notes
- ^ Excludes all-star games.
- ^ Teams in this seasons's Tangerine Bowl were not from the University Division, but the bowl is included due to its history with such teams.
References
- ^ "1959 College Football Bowl Games". Sports Reference. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
- ^ a b Sakowitz, Sheldon (December 19, 1959). "Three Grid Bowl Games On Tap Today". The Paducah Sun. Paducah, Kentucky. AP. p. 18. Retrieved June 10, 2023 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ "Offense Key For Sun Bowl". Amarillo Globe-News. AP. December 30, 1959. p. 24. Retrieved June 10, 2023 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d e "Bowl Schedule". The Item. Sumter, South Carolina. AP. December 31, 1959. p. 8. Retrieved June 10, 2023 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ "TV Highlights". Jim Thorpe Times News. Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. January 2, 1960. p. 5. Retrieved June 10, 2023 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ MacCambridge, Michael, ed. (2005). ESPN College Football Encyclopedia. New York, N.Y.: ESPN Books. p. 1256. ISBN 1-4013-3703-1.