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After the organizers of the Rose Bowl had such success in 1926, leaders in Miami tried to do the same with the “Festival of the American Tropics.” Unlike the Rose Bowl, which was created after the Tournament of Roses Parade, the Fiesta was built around a New Year’s football game.

The games were discontinued just a year after their inception, but the game of football remained.

In 1932, the first Palm Festival was held, a precursor to the Orange Bowl. In the first two cases, the big team was invited to play against the local team, Miami. Technically, under the circumstances, the NCAA couldn’t recognize it as a bowl because one team was guaranteed a berth in the game regardless of record. In 1935, the bowl was remodeled and named the Orange Bowl, a no-man’s field (although Miami did play).

Memorable moments

• William “Refrigerator” Perry shuts down Nebraska’s offense in a 22-15 victory over Clemson to win the national championship in 1982.

• In 1984, Ken Calhoun deflected a pass from Turner Gill to beat Nebraska 31-30, giving Nebraska a 2-point lead, while Miami won its first national title.

• In 1991, Ragib Ismail’s 92-yard field goal with 43 seconds left gave Colorado a chance to win the title. However, the strike was called back by a clipping penalty.

• In 1994, Florida State led 18-16 when Nebraska’s Tommy Frazier hit. Truman Bell a 29-yard gain to the FSU 28-yard line in the final seconds. The clock ticked down to 0:00, but referee John Soffey called a foul on Bell with 1 second left, allowing Nebraska kicker Byron Bennett to shoot for the game-winning field goal. But the 45-yard shot went wide.

• Alabama’s Ryan Pflugner missed a field goal in the first overtime of the BCS era and Michigan won 35-34.

• The 2006 Orange Bowl lasted more than four hours and was the last meeting between coaches Joe Paterno and Bobby Bowden. FSU’s Gary Cismesia missed two field goals in three overtime periods and Penn State won 26-23.

• Nine other Orange Bowl records were broken or broken in 2012 when West Virginia beat Clemson 70-33.

YEAR	WINNER	SCORE	WINNER	SCORE
1935	Bucknell	26	Miami (Fla.)	0
1936	Catholic University	20	The ole lady	19
1937	Duquesne	13	Mississippi State	12
1938	Bourne	6	State of Michigan	0
1939	Tennessee	17	Oklahoma	0
1940	Georgia Tech	21	Missouri	7
1941	Mississippi State	14	Georgetown	7
1942	Georgia	40	TCU	26
1943	Alabama	37	Boston College	21
1944	LSU	19	Texas A&M	14
[1945[1945он	Tulsa	26	Georgia Tech	12
1946	Miami (Fla.)	13	Holy Cross	6
1947	White rice	8	Tennessee	0
1948	Georgia Tech	20	Kansas	14
1949	Texas	41	Georgia	28
1950	Santa Clara	21	Kentucky	13
1951	Clemson	15	Miami (Fla.)	14
1952	Georgia Tech	17	Baylor	14
1953	Alabama	61	Syracuse	6
1954	Oklahoma	7	Maryland	0
1955	Duke	34	Nebraska	7
1956	Oklahoma	20	Maryland	6
1957	Colorado	27	Clemson	21
1958	Oklahoma	48	Duke	21
1959	Oklahoma	21	Syracuse	6
1960	Georgia	14	Missouri	0
1961	Missouri	21	Navy	14
1962	LSU	25	Colorado	7
1963	Alabama	17	Oklahoma	0
1964	Nebraska	13	Bourne	7
1965	Texas	21	Alabama	17
1966	Alabama	39	Nebraska	28
1967	Florida	27	Georgia Tech	12
1968	Oklahoma	26	Tennessee	24
1969	Penn State	15	Kansas	14
1970	Penn State	10	Missouri	3
1971	Nebraska	17	LSU	12
1972	Nebraska	38	Alabama	6
1973	Nebraska	40	Notre Dame	6
1974	Penn State	16	LSU	9
1975	Notre Dame	13	Alabama	11
1976	Oklahoma	14	Michigan	6
1977	Ohio State	27	Colorado	10
1978	Arkansas	31	Oklahoma	6
1979	Oklahoma	31	Nebraska	24
1980	Oklahoma	24	State of Florida	7
1981	Oklahoma	18	State of Florida	17
1982	Clemson	22	Nebraska	15
1983	Nebraska	21	LSU	20
1984	Miami (Fla.)	31	Nebraska	30
1985	Washington	28	Oklahoma	17
1986	Oklahoma	25	Penn State	10
1987	Oklahoma	42	Arkansas	8
1988	Miami (Fla.)	20	Oklahoma	14
1989	Miami (Fla.)	23	Nebraska	3
1990	Notre Dame	21	Colorado	6
1991	Colorado	10	Notre Dame	9
1992	Miami (Fla.)	22	Nebraska	0
1993	State of Florida	27	Nebraska	14
1994	State of Florida	18	Nebraska	16
1995	Nebraska	24	Miami (Fla.)	17
1996	State of Florida	31	Notre Dame	26
1996	Nebraska	41	Virginia Tech	21
1998	Nebraska	42	Tennessee	17
1999	Florida	31	Syracuse	10
2000	Michigan	35	Alabama	34
2001	Oklahoma	13	State of Florida	2
2002	Florida	56	Maryland	23
2003	USC	38	Iowa	17
2004	Miami (Fla.)	16	State of Florida	14
2005	USC	55	Oklahoma	19
2006	Penn State	26	State of Florida	23
2007	Louisville	24	Awakening the forest	13
2008	Kansas	24	Virginia Tech	21
2009	Virginia Tech	20	Cincinnati	7
2010	Iowa	24	Georgia Tech	14
2011	Stanford	40	Virginia Tech	12
2012	West Virginia	70	Clemson	33
2013	State of Florida	31	Northern Illinois	10
2014	Clemson	40	Ohio State	35
2014*	Georgia Tech	49	Mississippi State	34
2015**	Clemson	37	Oklahoma	17
2016	State of Florida	33	Michigan	32
2017	Wisconsin	34	Miami	24
2018**	Alabama	45	Oklahoma	34
2019	Florida	36	Virginia	28
2021	Texas A&M	41	North Carolina	27
2021**	Georgia	34	Michigan	11
The year 2022	Tennessee	31	Clemson	14
The year 2023	Georgia	63	State of Florida	3
The year 2024	Notre Dame	27	Penn State	24
The year 2025	Oregon	23	Texas Tech	0