All-American Bowl

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)
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The All-American Bowl was an annual post-season college football game played at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama from 1977 to 1990. The game was known as the Hall of Fame Classic from 1977 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's Georgia 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 the Papajohns.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 (now Big 12 Conference), Big Ten Conference, Southeastern Conference and Southwest 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. The Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference each placed five teams into the All-American Bowl. The Big 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

ee also

*List of college bowl games


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