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Best college football bowl games in New Year’s Six history
The first college football bowl game was played on Jan. 1, 1902, and it was decidedly not a classic. Michigan beat Stanford 49-0 in the inaugural Rose Bowl. Among the lowlights: nine Stanford fumbles and its captain saying that his team was quitting with eight minutes remaining.
But in the nearly 121 years since then, football fans have enjoyed a…