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The Independence Bowl is a post-season NCAA -sanctioned Division I-A College Football bowl game that is played annually at Independence Stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana , so named because it was inaugurated in the United States Bicentennial Year, 1976 . For its first five years the game pitted the champion of the Southland Conference (then a Division I-A conference) against an at-large opponent. The game has previously been known as the Poulan/Weed Eater Independence Bowl (1990-1996), the '''Sanford Independence Bowl''' (1998-2000) and the '''MainStay Independence Bowl''' (2001-2003). In January 2005, in what was widely perceived as a publicity stunt, the Deja Vu chain of "gentlemen's clubs" offered to become the title sponsor. The offer was rejected. Today, it normally features a matchup between teams representing the Big 12 Conference and Southeastern Conference . PREVIOUS RESULTS † Overtime NOTES # Miami University received a bid because the SEC did not have enough bowl-eligible teams to fill all of its allotted bowl slots in 2004 , even before the University Of South Carolina chose to decline a bowl bid after a massive brawl between players from that school and archrival Clemson University during their November 20, 2004 game. MVP(S) SEE ALSO List Of College Bowl Games EXTERNAL LINKS |
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