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The 2016 Sugar Bowl is a bowl game that was played on January 1, 2016 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. This 82nd Sugar Bowl was played between the University of Mississippi and Oklahoma State University. It is one of the 2015–16 bowl games that concluded the 2015 FBS football season.
The Nittany Lions hold a 18–8–1 (.685) record in the major bowls (Rose, Orange, Sugar, Fiesta, Peach, and Cotton). Coach Joe Paterno was responsible for most of these bids and victories, compiling more wins, 24, and appearances, 37, than any other coach in college football history, with a bowl record of 24–12–1 (.662).
Oklahoma is one of only two schools to have appeared in all five of the BCS era bowl games (2001 Orange, 2003 Rose, 2004 Sugar, 2007 Fiesta, 2009 BCS NCG), with the other being Ohio State. [3] Oklahoma's bowl game participation and victories rank among the top of FBS bowl records .
As with the 2015 season, the two semi-final bowls were held on New Year's Eve (Saturday, December 31, 2016), as the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl are guaranteed exclusive TV time slots on January 2 if New Year's Day fell on a Sunday (there is a gentleman's agreement to not play New Year's Day bowl games against NFL games, which are played as usual ...
The Sugar Bowl was not ESPN’s least-watched College Football Playoff quarterfinal despite being postponed to Thursday afternoon. The game drew an average of nearly 16 million viewers after ...
The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) was a selection system that created five bowl game match-ups involving ten of the top ranked teams in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of college football, including an opportunity for the top two teams to compete in the BCS National Championship Game.
In this week's Ole Miss football bowl projections, we look at whether the Peach Bowl, Sugar Bowl or Fiesta Bowl is the best fit for the Rebels.
LSU has competed in 54 bowl games (with 53 being sanctioned by the NCAA) in its history, going 29–24–1 in NCAA sanctioned bowl games. [1] The Tigers have played in at least one bowl game in every season since 2000; their streak of 20 bowl seasons is the fourth-longest active streak in the NCAA and second-longest in the Southeastern Conference .