New Orleans Bowl
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The New Orleans Bowl is a major post-season college football bowl game certified by the NCAA that has been played annually at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana from 2001 to 2004. The game is currently sponsored by Wyndham Hotels and is officially called the Wyndham New Orleans Bowl.
The first year featured North Texas from the Sun Belt playing Colorado State from the Mountain West. It is now played between the conference champion of the Sun Belt and a team from Conference USA.
Due to Hurricane Katrina, the 2005 game will be played on December 20 in Lafayette, Louisiana at Cajun Field on the campus of University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Previous results
| Date Played | Winning Team | Losing Team | ||
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| December 18, 2001 | Colorado State | 45 | North Texas | 20 |
| December 17, 2002 | North Texas | 25 | Cincinnati | 19 |
| December 16, 2003 | Memphis | 27 | North Texas | 17 |
| December 14, 2004 | Southern Mississippi | 31 | North Texas | 10 |
| December 20, 2005≈ | ||||
≈ — Game to be played in Lafayette, Louisiana at Cajun Field at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
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| 2005-06 Division I-A College football Bowl Game season: New Orleans (Dec. 20) | GMAC (Dec. 21) | Poinsettia (Dec. 22) | Las Vegas (Dec. 22) | Fort Worth (Dec. 23) | Hawaii (Dec. 24) | Motor City (Dec. 26) | Champs Sports (Dec. 27) | Insight (Dec. 27) | MPC Computers (Dec. 28) | Alamo (Dec. 28) | Emerald (Dec. 29) | Holiday (Dec. 29) | Music City (Dec. 30) | Sun (Dec. 30) | Independence (Dec. 30) | Peach (Dec. 30) | Meineke Car Care (Dec. 31) | Liberty (Dec. 31) | Houston (Dec. 31) | Outback (Jan. 2) | Cotton (Jan. 2) | Gator (Jan. 2) | Capital One (Jan. 2) |
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| Post-BCS Games: Gridiron Classic (Jan. 21) | East-West Shrine Game (Jan. 21) | Hula Bowl (Jan. 21) | Senior Bowl (Jan. 28) | |||||||||
