1959–60 NCAA football bowl games | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Season | 1959 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of bowls | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All-star games |
Blue–Gray Football Classic East–West Shrine Game North–South Shrine Game Senior Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowl games | December 19, 1959 – January 2, 1960 [a] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Champions | Syracuse (AP, Coaches, FWAA, NFF) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1959–60 NCAA football bowl games were a series of post-season games played in December 1959 and January 1960 to end the 1959 NCAA University Division football season. A total of nine team-competitive games, [1] and four all-star games, were played. The post-season began on December 19 with the Bluebonnet Bowl and Liberty Bowl, and concluded on January 9, 1960, with the season-ending Senior Bowl all-star game.
The following table lists bowl games involving University Division teams; [b] bowl games at lower levels are listed in the See also section.
The nine team-competitive bowls consisted of seven played the prior season (the eighth, the Bluegrass Bowl, did not return) plus the first editions of the Bluebonnet Bowl and Liberty Bowl.
Source: [6]