A Look at the Liberty Bowl
Submitted by podizz on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 11:22
- Since 2004, the game has been sponsored by AutoZone, and is now called the AutoZone Liberty Bowl.
- A.F. “Bud” Dudley, a former Villanova University athletic-director, created the Liberty Bowl in Philadelphia in 1959.
- Dudley moved the game to Memphis in 1965, where it has made its home at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium and has established itself as one of the oldest non-BCS bowls.
- Since the 2006 football season, the game matches the Conference USA champion with a team from the SEC.
- Results:
- December 19, 1959 Penn State 7 Alabama 0
- December 20, 1960 Penn State 41 Oregon 12
- December 16, 1961 Syracuse 15 Miami 14
- December 15, 1962 Oregon State 6 Villanova 0
- December 21, 1963 Mississippi State 16 North Carolina State 12
- December 19, 1964 Utah 32 West Virginia 6
- December 18, 1965 Mississippi 13 Auburn 7
- December 10, 1966 Miami 14 Virginia Tech 7
- December 16, 1967 North Carolina State 14 Georgia 7
- December 14, 1968 Mississippi 34 Virginia Tech 17
- December 13, 1969 Colorado 47 Alabama 33
- December 12, 1970 Tulane 17 Colorado 3
- December 20, 1971 Tennessee 14 Arkansas 13
- December 18, 1972 Georgia Tech 31 Iowa State 30
- December 17, 1973 North Carolina State 31 Kansas 18
- December 16, 1974 Tennessee 7 Maryland 3
- December 22, 1975 USC 20 Texas A&M 0
- December 20, 1976 Alabama 36 UCLA 6
- December 19, 1977 Nebraska 21 North Carolina 17
- December 23, 1978 Missouri 20 LSU 15
- December 22, 1979 Penn State 9 Tulane 6
- December 27, 1980 Purdue 28 Missouri 25
- December 30, 1981 Ohio State 31 Navy 28
- December 29, 1982 Alabama 21 Illinois 15
- December 29, 1983 Notre Dame 19 Boston College 18
- December 27, 1984 Auburn 21 Arkansas 15
- December 27, 1985 Baylor 21 LSU 7
- December 29, 1986 Tennessee 21 Minnesota 14
- December 29, 1987 Georgia 20 Arkansas 17
- December 28, 1988 Indiana 34 South Carolina 10
- December 29, 1989 Mississippi 42 Air Force 29
- December 27, 1990 Air Force 23 Ohio State 11
- December 29, 1991 Air Force 38 Mississippi State 15
- December 31, 1992 Mississippi 13 Air Force 0
- December 28, 1993 Louisville 18 Michigan State 7
- December 31, 1994 Illinois 30 East Carolina 0
- December 30, 1995 East Carolina 19 Stanford 13
- December 27, 1996 Syracuse 30 Houston 17
- December 31, 1997 Southern Miss 41 Pittsburgh 7
- December 31, 1998 Tulane 41 BYU 27
- December 31, 1999 Southern Mississippi 23 Colorado State 17
- December 29, 2000 Colorado State 22 Louisville 17
- December 31, 2001 Louisville 28 BYU 10
- December 31, 2002 TCU 17 Colorado State 3
- December 31, 2003 Utah 17 Southern Mississippi 0
- December 31, 2004 Louisville 44 Boise State 40
- December 31, 2005 Tulsa 31 Fresno State 24
- December 29, 2006 South Carolina 44 Houston 36
- December 29, 2007 Mississippi State 10 UCF 3
- January 2, 2009 Kentucky 25 East Carolina 19
- January 2, 2010 Arkansas vs. East Carolina
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