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This article is about the college football bowl game. For other uses, see Sugar bowl (disambiguation).
Sugar Bowl
Allstate Sugar Bowl
File:Sugar Bowl logo.svg
StadiumCaesars Superdome
LocationNew Orleans, Louisiana
Previous stadiumsTulane Stadium (1934–1974)
Temporary venueGeorgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia (2006)[a]
Operated1935–present
Championship affiliation
Conference tie-insSEC (unofficial 1935–1975, official 1976–present)
Big 12 (2015–present)
PayoutUS$17 million per team (As of 2014)[1]
Sponsors
USF&G Financial Services (1988–1995)
Nokia (1996–2006)
Allstate Insurance (2007–present)
Former names
Sugar Bowl (1935–1987)
USF&G Sugar Bowl (1987–1995)
Nokia Sugar Bowl (1996–2006)
2022 season matchup
Kansas State vs. Alabama (Alabama 45-20)

The Sugar Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game played in New Orleans, Louisiana. Played annually since January 1, 1935, it is tied with the Orange Bowl and Sun Bowl as the second-oldest bowl games in the country, surpassed only by the Rose Bowl Game.[2]

The Sugar Bowl was originally played at Tulane Stadium before moving to the Superdome in 1975. When the Superdome and the rest of the city suffered damage due to both the winds from and the flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Sugar Bowl was temporarily moved to the Georgia Dome in Atlanta in 2006. Since 2007, the game has been sponsored by Allstate and officially known as the Allstate Sugar Bowl. Previous sponsors include Nokia (1996–2006) and USF&G Financial Services (1988–1995).

The Sugar Bowl has had a longstanding—albeit not exclusive—relationship with the Southeastern Conference (SEC) (which once had a member institution based in New Orleans, Tulane University; another Louisiana school, Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, is still in the SEC today). Indeed, the Sugar Bowl did not feature an SEC team only four times in its first 60 editions, and an SEC team played in the game in every year but one from 1950 to 1995. The SEC's opponent varied from year to year, but prior to the advent of the Bowl Championship Series, it was often the runner-up of the Big Eight, SWC, or a major independent.

The Sugar Bowl-SEC relationship has been altered over the past twenty years due to conference realignments and the emergence of a series of coalitions and alliances intending to produce an undisputed national champion in college football, but the ties between the Sugar Bowl and the SEC have persisted and have recently been strengthened. Since 2015, the Sugar Bowl, along with the Rose, Orange, Cotton, Peach, and Fiesta bowls, is one of the "New Year's Six" bowls in rotation for the College Football Playoff. It hosted a playoff semifinal following the 2014, 2017, and 2020 seasons, and will next host one following the 2023 season. In other years, it will feature the best available teams from SEC and the Big 12 conferences,[3] an arrangement nearly identical with the relationship between the Rose Bowl and the champions of the Big Ten and Pac-12.

As a member of the Bowl Championship Series, the Sugar Bowl hosted the BCS National Championship Game twice, in 2000 and 2004, as the national championship rotated between the bowls themselves until 2006 when the national championship game became a standalone event. Since the 2014 season, the Sugar Bowl has been in the rotation of bowls—commonly referred to as the New Year's Six—that host College Football Playoff (CFP) semifinal games once every three years.

Sugar Bowl in Tulane Stadium in the 1940s

History

In 1890, Pasadena, California, held its first Tournament of Roses Parade to showcase the city's mild weather compared to the harsh winters in northern cities. As one of the organizers said: "In New York, people are buried in snow. Here, our flowers are blooming and our oranges are about to bear [fruit]. Let's hold a festival to tell the world about our paradise." In 1902, the annual festival was enhanced by adding a football game.[4]

LSU vs. Oklahoma in 2004

In 1926, leaders in Miami, Florida, decided to do the same with a "Fiesta of the American Tropics" that was centered around a New Year's Day football game. Although a second "Fiesta" was never held, Miami leaders later revived the idea with the "Palm Festival" (with the slogan "Have a Green Christmas in Miami"). The football game and associated festivities of the Palm Festival were soon named the "Orange Bowl."[5]

In New Orleans, Louisiana, the idea of a New Year's Day football game was first presented in 1927 by Colonel James M. Thomson, publisher of the New Orleans Item, and Sports Editor Fred Digby. Every year thereafter, Digby repeated calls for action, and even came up with the name "Sugar Bowl" for his proposed football game.[6]

By 1935, enough support had been garnered for the first Sugar Bowl. The game was played in Tulane Stadium, which had been built in 1926 on Tulane University's campus (before 1871, Tulane's campus was Paul Foucher's plantation, where Foucher's father-in-law, Etienne de Bore, had first granulated sugar from cane syrup). Warren V. Miller, the first president of the New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports Association, guided the Sugar Bowl through its difficult formative years of 1934 and 1935. An unusual 2–0 score marked the 1942 Sugar Bowl, in which the sole scoring play was a safety.

In January 1956, Bobby Grier became the first black player to participate in the Sugar Bowl. He is also regarded as the first black player to compete at a bowl game in the Deep South, though others such as Wallace Triplett had played in games like the 1948 Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Grier's team, the Pittsburgh Panthers, was set to play against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.[7] However, Georgia's Governor Marvin Griffin beseeched Georgia Tech to not participate in this racially integrated game.[8][9] Griffin was widely criticized by news media leading up to the game, and protests were held at his mansion by Georgia Tech students. Despite the governor's objections, Georgia Tech's president Blake R. Van Leer upheld the contract after he threatened to resign and the board of regents voted in his favor to compete in the bowl.[10] In the game's first quarter, a pass interference call against Grier ultimately resulted in Yellow Jackets' 7-0 victory. Grier stated that he has mostly positive memories about the experience, including the support from teammates and letters from all over the world.[11]

In November 1967, Army's success on the field (then at 7–1) made them a strong candidate to be selected for the 1968 game. However, Pentagon officials, in the midst of the Vietnam War, refused to allow the team to play what would have been the academy's first bowl game ever—citing the "heavy demands on the players' time" as well as an emphasis on football being "not consistent with the academy's basic mission: to produce career Army officers."[12][13]

The Superdome in January 2005

Tulane Stadium hosted through December 1974, and it has since been at the Superdome (except 2006). For the 1972 season, the game was moved to New Year's Eve night;[14] which lasted for four editions, returning to New Year's Day in January 1977. The last time it was played on natural grass was in January 1971.

Compared to most bowl games, the Sugar Bowl has had steady naming rights sponsorship. Its first corporate title sponsor was USF&G Financial Services from 1987 to 1995, then Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia from 1995 to 2006. In March 2006, Allstate Insurance was announced as the new title sponsor, and has continued to sponsor the game since.

ABC Sports televised the game from 1969 through 2006. Fox Sports televised the game from 2007 to 2010 as part of its contract with the BCS. ESPN started airing the game with the 2010–11 season, after outbidding Fox for the broadcasting rights.[15]

The 2006 game was relocated to the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia, because of the extensive damage the Superdome suffered as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Big East Champion West Virginia would go on to beat SEC Champion Georgia in the game 38-35. It returned to the refurbished Superdome in 2007. The payout for the 2006 game was $14–17 million per participating team. According to Sports Illustrated, the 2007 salary for Sugar Bowl CEO Paul Hoolahan was $607,500.[16]

Prior to the BCS, the game traditionally hosted the Southeastern Conference (SEC) champion against a top-tier at-large opponent. This was formalized in 1975, when the SEC champion was granted an automatic bid to the Sugar Bowl starting with the end of the 1976 season. This continued throughout the time of the Bowl Coalition, a precursor to the BCS. However, the Sugar Bowl agreed to release the SEC champion if necessary to force a national championship game. Under this format, the Sugar Bowl hosted the first Bowl Coalition national championship game, when SEC champion Alabama upended Miami at the end of the 1992 season. When the Bowl Coalition became the Bowl Alliance at the start of the 1995 season, the Sugar Bowl would still release the SEC champion to go to the national championship game if they were ranked in the top two in the nation.

Under the now-defunct BCS format, the Sugar Bowl continued to host the SEC champion against a top-tier at-large opponent, unless the SEC champion went to the BCS National Championship Game.[17] When this happened, the Sugar Bowl usually selected the highest-ranked SEC team still available in the BCS pool. The SEC champion played for the national championship in every one of the eight final editions of the BCS (2006–2013).

The Sugar Bowl maintains an archive of past programs, images, newsreels, and other materials. The archive, originally housed in the Superdome, survived Hurricane Katrina, but a more secure home was needed. During the summer of 2007, the Sugar Bowl donated its materials to The Historic New Orleans Collection, designating it the permanent home of its archive.

Ohio State vacated its 2011 Sugar Bowl victory over Arkansas in response to NCAA allegations over a memorabilia-for-cash scandal.[18]

The 2012 game, pitting the Michigan Wolverines against the Virginia Tech Hokies, was the first Sugar Bowl since 2000—and only the sixth since World War II—without an SEC team. Both of the SEC's BCS participants, Alabama and LSU, played in the National Championship Game (in the Superdome), and under BCS rules only two teams per conference were eligible for BCS bowls.

In May 2012, the Big 12 and SEC announced plans to create a new bowl game, the "Champions Bowl," that would play host to the champions of those two conferences.[19] That November, it was officially announced that the Champions Bowl had been awarded to New Orleans under a 12-year contract beginning in 2015, and would retain the Sugar Bowl name (stating that "Champions Bowl" was only a working title). In addition, it was announced that the Sugar Bowl would host one of two national semi-final games every three seasons (in the 2015, 2018, 2021, and 2024 seasons) as part of the new College Football Playoff system replacing the BCS.[20][21]

The game for the 2022 season was moved to December 31, 2022 with a noon ET kickoff; out of respect to the NFL, no bowl games are played on January 1 if it falls on a Sunday, while broadcaster ESPN is also committed to airing Monday Night Football. It will be only the sixth edition of the game to be played on New Year's Eve.[22][23]

Game results

Rankings are based on the AP Poll prior to the game being played. Italics denote a tie game

Date Played Winning team Losing team Venue Attnd.[24] Notes
January 1, 1935 Tulane 20 Temple 14 Tulane Stadium 22,026 notes
January 1, 1936 TCU 3 LSU 2 35,000 notes
January 1, 1937 Santa Clara 21 LSU 14 41,000 notes
January 1, 1938 Santa Clara 6 LSU 0 45,000 notes
January 2, 1939 #1 TCU 15 #6 Carnegie Tech 7 50,000 notes
January 1, 1940 #1 Texas A&M 14 #5 Tulane 13 73,000 notes
January 1, 1941 #4 Boston College 19 #6 Tennessee 13 73,181 notes
January 1, 1942 #6 Fordham 2 #7 Missouri 0 72,000 notes
January 1, 1943 #7 Tennessee 14 #4 Tulsa 7 70,000 notes
January 1, 1944 #13 Georgia Tech 20 Tulsa 18 69,000 notes
January 1, 1945 #11 Duke 29 Alabama 26 72,000 notes
January 1, 1946 #5 Oklahoma State 33 #7 Saint Mary's (CA) 13 75,000 notes
January 1, 1947 #3 Georgia 20 #9 North Carolina 10 73,300 notes
January 1, 1948 #5 Texas 27 #6 Alabama 7 73,000 notes
January 1, 1949 #5 Oklahoma 14 #3 North Carolina 6 82,000 notes
January 2, 1950 #2 Oklahoma 35 #9 LSU 0 82,470 notes
January 1, 1951 #7 Kentucky 13 #1 Oklahoma 7 82,000 notes
January 1, 1952 #3 Maryland 28 #1 Tennessee 13 82,000 notes
January 1, 1953 #2 Georgia Tech 24 #7 Ole Miss 7 82,000 notes
January 1, 1954 #8 Georgia Tech 42 #10 West Virginia 19 76,000 notes
January 1, 1955 #5 Navy 21 #6 Ole Miss 0 82,000 notes
January 2, 1956 #7 Georgia Tech 7 #11 Pittsburgh 0 80,175 notes
January 1, 1957 #11 Baylor 13 #2 Tennessee 7 81,000 notes
January 1, 1958 #7 Ole Miss 39 #11 Texas 7 82,000 notes
January 1, 1959 #1 LSU 7 #12 Clemson 0 82,000 notes
January 1, 1960 #2 Ole Miss 21 #3 LSU 0 83,000 notes
January 2, 1961 #2 Ole Miss 14 Rice 6 82,851 notes
January 1, 1962 #1 Alabama 10 #9 Arkansas 3 82,910 notes
January 1, 1963 #3 Ole Miss 17 #6 Arkansas 13 82,900 notes
January 1, 1964 #8 Alabama 12 #7 Ole Miss 7 80,785 notes
January 1, 1965 #7 LSU 13 Syracuse 10 65,000 notes
January 1, 1966 #6 Missouri 20 Florida 18 67,421 notes
January 2, 1967 #6 Alabama 34 #3 Nebraska 7 82,000 notes
January 1, 1968 LSU 20 #5 Wyoming 13 78,963 notes
January 1, 1969 #9 Arkansas 16 #4 Georgia 2 82,113 notes
January 1, 1970 #13 Ole Miss 27 #3 Arkansas 22 82,500 notes
January 1, 1971 #4 Tennessee 34 #11 Air Force 13 78,655 notes
January 1, 1972 #3 Oklahoma 40 #5 Auburn 22 84,031 notes
December 31, 1972 #2 Oklahoma 14 #5 Penn State 0 80,123 notes
December 31, 1973 #3 Notre Dame 24 #1 Alabama 23 85,161 notes
December 31, 1974 #8 Nebraska 13 #18 Florida 10 67,890 notes
December 31, 1975 #3 Alabama 13 #7 Penn State 6 Louisiana Superdome 75,212 notes
January 1, 1977 #1 Pittsburgh 27 #4 Georgia 3 76,117 notes
January 2, 1978 #3 Alabama 35 #9 Ohio State 6 76,811 notes
January 1, 1979 #2 Alabama 14 #1 Penn State 7 76,824 notes
January 1, 1980 #2 Alabama 24 #6 Arkansas 9 77,486 notes
January 1, 1981 #1 Georgia 17 #7 Notre Dame 10 77,895 notes
January 1, 1982 #10 Pittsburgh 24 #2 Georgia 20 77,224 notes
January 1, 1983 #2 Penn State 27 #1 Georgia 23 78,124 notes
January 2, 1984 #3 Auburn 9 #8 Michigan 7 77,893 notes
January 1, 1985 #5 Nebraska 28 #11 LSU 10 75,608 notes
January 1, 1986 #8 Tennessee 35 #2 Miami (Florida) 7 77,432 notes
January 1, 1987 #6 Nebraska 30 #5 LSU 15 76,234 notes
January 1, 1988 #4 Syracuse 16 #6 Auburn 16 75,495 notes
January 2, 1989 #4 Florida State 13 #7 Auburn 7 61,934 notes
January 1, 1990 #2 Miami (Florida) 33 #7 Alabama 25 77,452 notes
January 1, 1991 #6 Tennessee 23 Virginia 22 75,132 notes
January 1, 1992 #18 Notre Dame 39 #3 Florida 28 76,447 notes
January 1, 1993[b] #2 Alabama 34 #1 Miami (Florida) 13 76,789 notes
January 1, 1994 #8 Florida 41 #3 West Virginia 7 75,437 notes
January 2, 1995 #7 Florida State 23 #5 Florida 17 76,224 notes
December 31, 1995 #13 Virginia Tech 28 #9 Texas 10 70,283 notes
January 2, 1997[c] #3 Florida 52 #1 Florida State 20 78,344 notes
January 1, 1998 #4 Florida State 31 #9 Ohio State 14 67,289 notes
January 1, 1999 #3 Ohio State 24 #8 Texas A&M 14 76,503 notes
January 4, 2000[d] #1 Florida State 46 #2 Virginia Tech 29 79,280 notes
January 2, 2001 #2 Miami (Florida) 37 #7 Florida 20 64,407 notes
January 1, 2002 #12 LSU 47 #7 Illinois 34 77,688 notes
January 1, 2003 #4 Georgia 26 #16 Florida State 13 74,269 notes
January 4, 2004[d] #2 LSU 21 #3 Oklahoma 14 79,342 notes
January 3, 2005 #3 Auburn 16 #9 Virginia Tech 13 77,349 notes
January 2, 2006[a] #11 West Virginia 38 #8 Georgia 35 Georgia Dome 74,458 notes
January 3, 2007 #4 LSU 41 #11 Notre Dame 14 Louisiana Superdome 77,781 notes
January 1, 2008 #4 Georgia 41 #10 Hawaiʻi 10 74,383 notes
January 2, 2009 #7 Utah 31 #4 Alabama 17 71,872 notes
January 1, 2010 #5 Florida 51 #4 Cincinnati 24 65,207 notes
January 4, 2011[e] #6 Ohio State 31 #8 Arkansas 26 73,879 notes
January 3, 2012 #13 Michigan 23 #17 Virginia Tech 20 Mercedes-Benz Superdome 64,512 notes
January 2, 2013 #22 Louisville 33 #4 Florida 23 54,178 notes
January 2, 2014 #10 Oklahoma 45 #3 Alabama 31 70,473 notes
January 1, 2015[f] #5 Ohio State 42 #1 Alabama 35 74,682 notes
January 1, 2016 #16 Ole Miss 48 #13 Oklahoma State 20 72,117 notes
January 2, 2017 #7 Oklahoma 35 #17 Auburn 19 54,077 notes
January 1, 2018[f] #4 Alabama 24 #1 Clemson 6 72,360 notes
January 1, 2019 #14 Texas 28 #6 Georgia 21 71,449 notes
January 1, 2020 #5 Georgia 26 #8 Baylor 14 55,211 notes
January 1, 2021[f] #3 Ohio State 49 #2 Clemson 28 3,000 notes
January 1, 2022 #7 Baylor 21 #8 Ole Miss 7 Caesars Superdome 66,479 notes
December 31, 2022 #5 Alabama 45 #11 Kansas State 20 notes

Source:[25]

  1. ^ a b Temporarily relocated because of the damage from Hurricane Katrina.
  2. ^ Denotes Bowl Coalition Championship game
  3. ^ Denotes Bowl Alliance Championship game
  4. ^ a b Denotes BCS National Championship Game
  5. ^ Ohio State vacated its victory over Arkansas due to NCAA sanctions
  6. ^ a b c Denotes College Football Playoff semifinal game

Future games

Future game dates[26][27]
Season Date Day
2023 January 1, 2024 Monday
2024 January 1, 2025 Wednesday
2025 January 1, 2026 Thursday

† denotes game is a College Football Playoff semifinal

Most Outstanding Players (Miller-Digby Award)

The Miller-Digby Award is presented to the Most Outstanding Player (MOP) in the Sugar Bowl, as voted by sports journalists covering the game. The award was initially established in 1948 following the death of Warren V. Miller, the first president of the Bowl; it was renamed the Miller-Digby Memorial Trophy in 1959, to also honor Fred J. Digby, the first general manager and fellow founding member of the Bowl.[28] When the Sugar Bowl acts as a CFP semifinal, both an offensive and defensive MVP are named; this has been the case in 2015, 2018, and 2021.

† Terrelle Pryor was later ruled ineligible and his statistics for the 2010 season, including the 2011 Sugar Bowl, were vacated.[29]

Most appearances

Updated through the December 2022 edition (89 games, 178 total appearances).

Teams with multiple appearances
Teams with a single appearance

Won (8): Boston College, Duke, Fordham, Kentucky, Louisville, Maryland, Navy, Utah
Lost (10): Air Force, Carnegie Tech, Cincinnati, Hawai'i, Illinois, Rice, Saint Mary's (CA), Temple, Virginia, Wyoming
TBD (1): Kansas State

Conference participation

Appearances by conference

Updated through the December 2022 edition (89 games, 178 total appearances).

Rank Conference Games Wins Losses Ties Win pct.
1 SEC† 81 41 38 1 .519
2 Independent 25 12 12 1 .500
3 SWC 13 6 7 0 .462
T4 Big Eight 11 8 3 0 .727
T4 ACC 11 3 8 0 .273
T6 Big Ten 9 5 4 0 .556
T6 Big 12† 9 4 4 0 .500
8 Big East 8 4 4 0 .500
9 SoCon 5 2 3 0 .400
10 MVC 3 1 2 0 .333
11 WAC 2 0 2 0 .000
12 Mountain West 1 1 0 0 1.000

† December 2022 participant

  • Records are based on a team's conference affiliation at the time the game was played.
  • Conferences that are defunct or not currently active in FBS are marked in italics.
  • The American Athletic Conference (The American) retains the charter of the original Big East, following its 2013 realignment.
  • No team from the Pac-12 or its predecessors (e.g. PCC) has appeared in the Sugar Bowl.

Game records

Team Record, Team vs. Opponent Year
Most points scored (one team) 52, Florida vs. Florida State 1997
Most points scored (losing team) 35, shared by:
Georgia vs. West Virginia
Alabama vs. Ohio State 		 
2006
2015
Most points scored (both teams) 81, LSU (47) vs. Illinois (34) 2002
Fewest points allowed 0, eight times, most recent:
Oklahoma vs. Penn State 		 
Dec. 1972
Largest margin of victory 35, Oklahoma (35) vs. LSU (0) 1950
Total yards 659, Florida (482 pass, 177 rush) vs. Cincinnati 2010
Rushing yards 439, Oklahoma vs. Auburn Jan. 1972
Passing yards 482, Florida vs. Cincinnati 2010
First downs 32, LSU vs. Illinois 2002
Fewest yards allowed 74, Ole Miss vs. LSU (-15 rush, 89 pass) 1960
Fewest rushing yards allowed -39, Tennessee vs. Tulsa 1943
Fewest passing yards allowed 0, three times, most recent:
Pittsburgh vs. Georgia Tech 		 
1956
Sacks 10, Baylor vs. Ole Miss 2022
Individual Record, Player, Team vs. Opponent Year
All-purpose yards 282, Kevin Williams, Miami (FL) vs. Alabama 1993
Touchdowns (all-purpose) 4, Domanick Davis, LSU vs. Illinois 2002
Rushing yards 230, Ezekiel Elliott, Ohio State vs. Alabama 2015
Rushing touchdowns 4, Domanick Davis, LSU vs. Illinois 2002
Passing yards 482, Tim Tebow, Florida vs. Cincinnati 2010
Passing touchdowns 6, Justin Fields, Ohio State vs. Clemson 2021
Receiving yards 239, Josh Reed, LSU vs. Illinois 2002
Receiving touchdowns 3, shared by:
Ike Hilliard, Florida vs. Florida State
Laquon Treadwell, Ole Miss vs. Oklahoma State		  
1997
2016
Tackles 20, Tom Cousineau, Ohio State vs. Alabama 1978
Sacks 3, shared by six players, most recent:
Eric Striker, Oklahoma vs. Alabama		  
2014
Interceptions 3, shared by three players, most recent:
Bobby Johns, Alabama vs. Nebraska		  
1967
Long Plays Record, Player, Team vs. Opponent Year
Touchdown run 92, Ray Brown, Ole Miss vs. Texas 1958
Touchdown pass 82, Ike Hilliard from Danny Wuerffel, Florida vs. Florida State Jan. 1995
Kickoff return 100, Andre Debose, Florida vs. Louisville 2013
Punt return 78, Kevin Williams, Miami (FL) vs. Alabama 1993
Interception return 96, Al Walcott, Baylor vs. Ole Miss 2022
Fumble return 26, shared by:
Bobby Jackson, Illinois vs. LSU
Geneo Grissom, Oklahoma vs. Alabama		  
2002
2014
Punt 76, Glenn Dobbs, Tulsa vs. Tennessee 1943
Field goal 53, John Carroll, Oklahoma vs. Auburn Jan. 1972
Miscellaneous Record, Team vs. Team Year
Game attendance 85,161, Notre Dame vs. Alabama 1973

Source:[30]

Broadcasting

See also: List of Sugar Bowl broadcasters

From 1999 to 2006, the game aired on ABC as part of its BCS package, where it had also been televised from 1969 through 1998. The Sugar Bowl was the only Bowl Alliance game to stick with ABC following the 1995, 1996 and 1997 seasons; the Fiesta and Orange Bowls were televised by CBS. Prior to that, NBC aired the game for several years. From 2006 to 2010, Fox broadcast the game, while ESPN picked up the Sugar Bowl after picking up the rest of the BCS beginning in the 2009–10 season.[15] For 2013, ESPN Deportes introduced a Spanish language telecast of the game.[31]

In November 2012, ESPN announced that it had reached a deal to maintain broadcast rights to the Sugar Bowl through 2026. ESPN pays $55 million yearly to broadcast the game beginning in the 2014–15 season under the new contract, which took effect upon the establishment of the College Football Playoff. ESPN made a similar deal to maintain broadcast rights to the Orange Bowl following the discontinuation of the BCS as well.[32]

See also

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