Champs Sports Bowl

The Champs Sports Bowl is an annual college football bowl game that is played in Orlando, Florida. Starting with the 2006 football season, the bowl will match up teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Big Ten Conference. Since 2004, Champs Sports, a division of Foot Locker, has sponsored the event.

Before gaining Blockbuster Entertainment as a corporate sponsor in 1990, the game was also referred to as the Sunshine Classic.

The game was played at Pro Player Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida from 1990 to 2000 and is now played at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando.

[edit] Previous Names and Corporate Sponsors

For the annual college football game which was called the Tangerine Bowl from 1947 to 1982, see Capital One Bowl.

Season	Date Played	Winning Team		Losing Team
1990	December 28, 1990	Florida State	24	Penn State	17
1991	December 28, 1991	Alabama	30	Colorado	25
1992	January 1, 1993	Stanford	24	Penn State	3
1993	January 1, 1994	Boston College	31	Virginia	13
1994	January 2, 1995	South Carolina	24	West Virginia	21
1995	December 30, 1995	North Carolina	20	Arkansas	10
1996	December 27, 1996	Miami (Florida)	31	Virginia	21
1997	December 29, 1997	Georgia Tech	35	West Virginia	30
1998	December 29, 1998	Miami (Florida)	46	North Carolina State	23
1999	December 30, 1999	Illinois	63	Virginia	21
2000	December 28, 2000	NC State	38	Minnesota	30
2001	December 20, 2001	Pittsburgh	34	North Carolina State	19
2002	December 23, 2002	Texas Tech	55	Clemson	15
2003	December 22, 2003	North Carolina State	56	Kansas	26
2004	December 21, 2004 <ref>Syracuse was chosen because the Big 12 did not have enough bowl eligible teams.</ref>	Georgia Tech	51	Syracuse	14
2005	December 27, 2005	Clemson	19	Colorado	10
2006	December 29, 2006	Purdue vs. Maryland

Date played	MVP	School	Position
December 28, 1990	Amp Lee	Florida State	RB
December 29, 1991	David Palmer	Alabama	WR
January 1, 1993	Darrien Gordon	Stanford	CB
January 1, 1994	Glenn Foley	Boston College	QB
January 2, 1995	Steve Taneyhill	South Carolina	QB
December 30, 1995	Leon Johnson	North Carolina	RB
December 27, 1996	Tremain Mack	Miami	SS
December 29, 1997	Joe Hamilton	Georgia Tech	QB
December 29, 1998	Scott Covington	Miami	QB
December 30, 1999	Kurt Kittner	Illinois	QB
December 28, 2000	Philip Rivers	North Carolina State	QB
December 20, 2001	Antonio Bryant	Pittsburgh	WR
December 23, 2002	Kliff Kingsbury	Texas Tech	QB
December 22, 2003	Philip Rivers	North Carolina State	QB
December 21, 2004	Reggie Ball	Georgia Tech	QB
December 27, 2005	James Davis	Clemson	RB

Poinsettia (Dec. 19) • Las Vegas (Dec. 21) • New Orleans (Dec. 22) • PapaJohns.com (Dec. 23) • New Mexico (Dec. 23) • Armed Forces (Dec. 23) • Hawai'i (Dec. 24) • Motor City (Dec. 26) • Independence (Dec. 27) • Emerald (Dec. 27) • Holiday (Dec. 28) • Texas (Dec. 28) • Music City (Dec. 29) • Sun (Dec. 29) • Liberty (Dec. 29) • Insight (Dec. 29) • Champs Sports (Dec. 29) • Meineke Car Care (Dec. 30) • Alamo (Dec. 30) • Chick-fil-A (Dec. 30) • MPC Computers (Dec. 31) • Outback (Jan. 1) • Cotton (Jan. 1) • Gator (Jan. 1) • Capital One (Jan. 1) • International (Jan. 6) • GMAC (Jan. 7)

<tr> <td colspan=3 align="center" bgcolor="#DAF0FD"> Bowl Championship Series games:

Rose Bowl (Jan. 1)

Fiesta Bowl (Jan. 1)

Orange Bowl (Jan. 2)

Sugar Bowl (Jan. 3)

BCS National Championship (Jan. 8)

</td></tr> <tr> <td colspan=3 bgcolor="#DAF0FD" style="font-size: 90%;" align="center"> All-Star Games: North-South All-Star Classic (Jan. 13) • Hula Bowl (Jan. 14) • Las Vegas All-American Classic (Jan. 15) • East-West Shrine Game (Jan. 20) • Senior Bowl (Jan. 27) • Texas vs. The Nation Game (Feb. 2)</td></tr>