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    • The Independence Bowl is a post-season National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)-sanctioned Division I college football bowl game that is played annually each December at Independence Stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana. The Independence Bowl was named because it was inaugurated in 1976, the year of the United States Bicentennial. The bowl's curre… See more

    Conference tie-ins

    For its first five years, the game pitted the champion of the Southland Conference against an at-large … See more

    Notable games

    One of the most memorable games in Independence Bowl history was the 2000 edition, the "snow bowl" game between Texas A&M and Mississippi State. The game was originally publicized as a reunion game, sinc… See more

    StadiumIndependence Stadium
    LocationShreveport, Louisiana
    Operated1976–present
    Previous conference tie-insSLC (1976–1981) · SEC (1995–2009) · Big 12 (1998–2009) · MWC (2010–2011) · ACC (2010–2019) · SEC (2012–2019)
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    Title sponsor

    In 1990, the contest became one of the earliest college bowl games to use a title sponsor, becoming the Poulan Weed-Eater Independence Bowl. Poulan (then a division of AB Electrolux Home Products, now … See more

    Independence Stadium

    Independence Stadium is a stadium owned by the city of Shreveport, Louisiana. It used to be known as "State Fair Stadium"; it is the site of the annual Independence Bowl post-season college football game, initially (1976) … See more

    Most appearances

    Every current member of the SEC except Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas has appeared in the game. Of the 21 current or former members of the Big 12, only Arizona State, Baylor, Cincinnati, Kansas, Te… See more

    Appearances by conference

    Updated through the December 2024 edition (48 games, 96 total appearances).
    • Conferences that are defunct or no longer active in FBS are marked in italics.
    • The American's record includes the 1993 appearanc… See more

    Media coverage

    The bowl was first broadcast nationally in 1979, by WTBS. It has subsequently been broadcast by Mizlou (1980–1990), ABC (1991), and ESPN or ESPN2 since then, with the exception of a one-year return to ABC in 2014. … See more

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