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The Cotton Bowl Classic is a United States College Football Bowl Game played annually since 1937 at the Self-named Stadium in Dallas, Texas . The game is currently sponsored by AT&T and is officially called the '''AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic'''. It has previously been known as the '''Mobil Cotton Bowl Classic''', the '''Southwestern Bell Cotton Bowl Classic''', and the '''SBC Cotton Bowl Classic'''. For 40 years the champion of the now-defunct Southwest Conference played as the home team in the Cotton Bowl. Up until the mid- 1980s the contest was counted among the four major New Year's bowls, but lost that stature when many SWC teams served NCAA probations for rule violations (rendering them bowl ineligible). Also during this time the Fiesta Bowl , unhindered by conference tie-ins, began attracting national championship contenders and eventually it replaced the Cotton Bowl as one of the four "major bowls." The SWC folded in 1996 and the Cotton Bowl now matches teams from the Big 12 Conference and Southeastern Conference . It continues to be played on New Year's Day (except in rare instances, when it is moved to January 2 ), and is usually the first game of the day to kick off. Fox currently has the rights to broadcast the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic. For many decades, the Game was a New Year's Day staple on CBS , where the man most associated with the Cotton Bowl, Lindsey Nelson , handled the play-by-play. Shortly after Nelson's death, NBC transmitted it for a brief period during the Mid 90's. PREVIOUS RESULTS MVPS SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINK |
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