- All-American Bowl
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stadium = Legion Field
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location = Birmingham, Alabama
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years = 1977-1990
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former_names = Hall of Fame Classic (1977-1985)
prev_matchup_year = 1990
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next_matchup_date = The All-American Bowl was an annual post-seasoncollege football game played atLegion Field inBirmingham, Alabama from 1977 to 1990. The game was known as the Hall of Fame Classic from1977 to 1985.In the spring of
1986 , the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame decided to relocate the Hall of Fame Bowl game to Tampa beginning in December, 1986. The game in Birmingham continued for five years under a different name and organizing body. When the SEC expanded to twelve schools and began contesting a championship game in 1992, Birmingham officials chose to host the conference title game and abandoned the All-American Bowl. Ironically, the SEC championship was moved to Atlanta'sGeorgia Dome two years later, leaving Legion Field without any Division I-A postseason college football until 2006, when the NCAA agreed to hold a new post-season game thePapajohns.com Bowl , proposed by ESPN.Since 2001, the
United States Army has sponsored its own All-American Bowl for the top eighty high school football players across the nation. [http://www.usarmyallamericanbowl.com US Army All-American Bowl website]Game results
Hall of Fame Classic
All-American Bowl
Teams
The All-American Bowl played host to a number of successful teams from the premier college football conferences of the time (the
Atlantic Coast Conference , Big Eight (nowBig 12 Conference ),Big Ten Conference ,Southeastern Conference andSouthwest Conference ). All of them placed teams in the All-American Bowl in various years. At least one of the power conferences fielded teams in the All-American Bowl in every year of its existence; often, two of those premier conferences met in the game. TheSoutheastern Conference andAtlantic Coast Conference each placed five teams into the All-American Bowl. TheBig Ten Conference proved to be the least successful conference, having never won a game despite placing teams in four different years.*Conference records in the All-American Bowl were as follows:
**Southwest Conference 3-0 (1.000)
**Atlantic Coast Conference 4-1 (.800)
**Southeastern Conference 3-2 (.600)
**Western Athletic Conference 1-1 (.500)
**Big Eight Conference 1-2 (.333)
**Big Ten Conference 0-4 (.000)Ranked Teams
On several occasions, the All-American Bowl winners finished the season ranked in the AP Top Twenty poll:
*Texas A&M finished #19 in the final 1978 AP poll after defeating Iowa State.
*West Virginia finished #16 in the final 1983 AP poll after defeating Kentucky.
*Kentucky finished #19 in the final 1984 AP poll after defeating Wisconsin.
*Georgia Tech finished #19 in the final 1985 AP poll after defeating Michigan State.
*Texas Tech finished #19 in the final 1989 AP poll after defeating Duke.References
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List of college bowl games
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