# Why are football championship games called "bowls?"

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**Created:** [October 28, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-football-championship-games-called-bowls/210069 "2003-10-28T18:04:05Z")\
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> \*Originally posted by BobT \*  
> \*\*However, the CapitalOne Bowl was sponsored by the Florida Citrus Bowl starting in 1983.  
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> All this info is from the Official NCAA Football Records Book. \*\*

Insofar as the Citrus Bowl Game is concerned, it started off as the Tangerine Bowl and was renamed the Citrus Bowl when the Florida Citrus growers started sponsoring the game. I recall seing a lot of fruit juice commercials during the games. Capital One began sponsoring and attaching its name to the Citrus Bowl game sometime later.

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