The Raisin Bowl was an annual post-season American college football bowl game played at Ratcliffe Stadium in Fresno, California , from 1946 to 1949. The first four games were played on January 1, the last on December 31. The games pitted a California team against an at-large team; the California team prevailed in four of the five games.
3-780: This game is not to be confused with the California Bowl which was later staged in Fresno, which in its later years was marketed as the California Raisin Bowl due to the sale of naming rights to the California Raisin Marketing Board. † Now Wichita State ‡ Now Colorado State This college football bowl article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to sports in California
6-728: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . California Bowl The California Bowl (later the California Raisin Bowl ) was a post-season college football bowl game played annually at Bulldog Stadium in Fresno, California , from 1981 to 1991. The game featured the champions of the Big West Conference (known prior to 1988 as the Pacific Coast Athletic Association) and the Mid-American Conference . In 1988,
9-658: The California Raisin Advisory Board purchased the naming rights to the bowl. The game was dealt a severe blow in 1992 when Fresno State moved to the Western Athletic Conference . The MAC and Big West then moved their tie-ins to Las Vegas, Nevada and created the Las Vegas Bowl . The California Bowl made plans to hold the 1992 game without tie-ins, but was unable to find a new sponsor. When organizers came up short of
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