Category talk:Defunct college football bowls

Needed:

       Oil Bowl (I know that there was one but don't know any details)
       Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl/Bluebonnet Bowl
       All-American Bowl (Legion Field)

There are additionally some games named on the college football page that haven't been added to the category yet, for those of you who have time.

Also, do the formerly-named lower-division games belong here? For example, NCAA Division I-AA Championship, now called just that, was formerly called the Pioneer Bowl. Divison II was at one time called the Camellia Bowl, which is noted in that article since there was also once a major-college bowl named that. Division III was at one time the Grantland Rice Bowl and the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl. There has also been at some point a Gardenia Bowl and an Azalea Bowl; I think that both were part of the lower-division playoffs. As far as I know, names for the lower-division NCAA playoff games have all been dropped. Is this correct? What about naming-rights to games which may still exist under other names? For example, at one point the Sun Bowl became the John Hancock Sun Bowl and then since no one was calling it the John Hancock Sun Bowl it became temporarily the John Hancock Bowl. This obviously belongs under "Sun Bowl", but someone might need a redirect, if trying to look it up from a contemporary account from a time when there was no other name. Now that John Hancock is no longer involved, is the John Hancock Bowl in a way defunct? What about names that seem to have permanently disappeared due to naming rights, like the Hall of Fame Bowl (now Outback Bowl), Florida Citrus Bowl (now Capital One Bowl), etc. Are redirects alone enough? There are 'names' that have never even really been used and are "default" names in case naming rights can't be sold, like the "Blockbuster/Carquest/Your Name Here" Bowl in Ft. Lauderdale, which was technically the "Sunshine Festival Classic", IIRC, if no one bought the name? I don't want to do anything on this without input from other interested people. Takers? Rlquall 14:15, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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