… PEACHES FOR FOOTBALL FANS
After an eight-year hiatus, everything is “peachy” again in Atlanta.
Chick-fil-A Bowl officials will officially announce Monday that the New Year’s Eve game – which “pits” (get it?) teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Southeastern Conference – will revert to the name it used from 1998-2005, the “Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl.”
From 1968-1997 the game was simply known as the “Peach Bowl.” Chick-fil-A became a title sponsor in 1998, and eight years later the company paid $22 million for exclusive naming rights over a five-year period.
“It got down to what is our history, what is our heritage, what is our tradition and how can we pay homage to that in our name,” the bowl’s president told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl pays out $4 million to its participating ACC squad (typically the No. 2 team in the conference) and $3 million to its participating SEC squad (typically the No. 6 team in the conference). The game – played each year at the Georgia Dome – has sold out for seventeen straight seasons.
In April, the bowl was selected as one of six rotating sites for a national semifinal game.
Since moving to its ACC-SEC format in 1993, each conference was won 11 games. Clemson University has posted a 3-4 record in the game over that stretch, while South Carolina has gone 0-1. Both Clemson and Carolina posted 0-1 marks in the Peach Bowl prior to 1993.
LSU is the most successful team in the history of the game, posting a 5-1 record.
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Next thing you know, they’ll be running the Southern 500 at Darlington on Labor Day weekend.
The Silver Fox is out of shape and King Richard is no longer a threat. Cotton Owens and The Intimidator are gone now and I ain’t feeling so good myself.
It has always been the Peach Bowl to me. I remember the first time a young lady taught me how to eat a peach. Never forget!
As a 13 year old boy I was taught by a 17 year old girl how to “peel a tomato.” It was one my life’s most enlightening lessons. I’ll never forget it.
That was some kind of sweet tomato!
Nowadays, they would put her in jail and force her to be known as a “filthy child molester” for the rest of her days.
There just has to be an ear of corn/popsickle/blowpop BigT/GrandTango story in here somewhere.
Hey dumbass you do realize that that the playoff committee now gets to pick who goes to the peach bowl, not the peach bowl committee, right? so the ACC and SEC is not longer locked in to this bowl.
Isn’t it still the SEC and ACC tie in on years it is not one of the host sites? Its only a playoff host once every three years, so what is it the other 2? On its own website it still says SEC vs ACC
Like Bo, i don’t know, knows.
I remember when scar played in the peach but when did Carolina play in the peach? Can’t remember.
waitin for the Cheetah III bowl…