Sugar Bowl
New Orleans, LA -College Football’s National Championship Game returns to New Orleans for the first time since the 2003 season. For the first time in its history, the Sugar Bowl is poised to host two bowl games in the same season. The Allstate Sugar Bowl will be played Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. (CT). Just six days later, the Allstate BCS National Championship Game will be played on Monday, January 7, 2008 at 7 p.m. (CT). Both games will be played in the Louisiana Superdome and televised live by FOX Sports. The official team selections for both games will take place Sunday, December 2 as this season’s road to college football’s National Championship Game ends in New Orleans!
UPCOMING
ALLSTATE SUGAR BOWL GAMES
Tues. Jan. 1, 2008:
Allstate Sugar Bowl
Hawaii (12-0) vs. Georgia (10-2) - 7:30 p.m. FOX Sports
Mon. Jan. 7, 2008:
Allstate BCS Championship Game -
Ohio State (11-1) vs. LSU (11-2) - 7:00 p.m. FOX Sports
Fri. Jan. 2, 2009
Allstate Sugar Bowl - 7:00 p.m. FOX Sports
Fri. Jan. 1, 2010
Allstate Sugar Bowl - 7:00 p.m. FOX Sports
This season, the Allstate Sugar Bowl will host two games for the first time in its history. The 74th Allstate Sugar Bowl Classic will be played Tuesday, Jan. 1 at 7:30 p.m. (CT). Just six days later, the college football champion will be crowned in the Allstate BCS National Championship on Monday, Jan. 7 at 7 p.m. (CT). Both games will be televised live nationally on FOX and broadcast live on ESPN Radio.
“Our committee is ready and eager to host these two great games,” said Ray Jeandron, President of the Sugar Bowl Committee. “We are excited about what it means for New Orleans and we’ve been preparing and planning diligently to produce a series of first-class events. The fans have shown their confidence in our committee and our city in selling out both games and we look forward to them having a championship experience.”
The Allstate Sugar Bowl returned to the Superdome on Jan. 3, 2007 after a one-year move to Atlanta’s Georgia Dome in January 2006 following Hurricane Katrina. A crowd of 77,781 packed the Louisiana Superdome as #4- ranked LSU downed #11 Notre Dame, 41-14.
This will be the third college football national championship game played in the Superdome this decade. The new millennium began in grand style as #1 Florida State beat # 2 Virginia Tech, 46-29, before a Superdome record crowd of 79,280. Another Superdome attendance record was set at the 2004 BCS National Championship as 79,342 watched #2 LSU beat #1 Oklahoma, 21-14.
“Time and again, New Orleans has shown itself to be a big-game, big-event city,” said Hoolahan. “With the outstanding support shown the Saints in their triumphant return to the Superdome in 2006, and the Allstate Sugar Bowl Classic this past January, the sellout of our two upcoming games is another of many positive indicators that New Orleans is alive and growing stronger.”
About the Sugar Bowl
The Sugar Bowl Committee, which hosted its first game on New Year’s
Day in 1935, consists of volunteer men and women from the New Orleans area
business and civic community. In addition to the annual Football Classic,
the Bowl hosts or sponsors championship competitions in high school football,
high school swimming, sailing, high school and youth soccer, golf, volleyball
and high school track and field . The Bowl also administers the Greater
New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame and the New Orleans Chapter of the National
Football Foundation and Hall of Fame. Allstate becomes only the third title
sponsor in the Bowl’s 73-year history. USF&G Insurance became
the Bowl’s first title sponsor in 1986, followed by NOKIA, a Finnish
telecommunications and mobile phone company from1995 to 2006. 
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