Bowl History
1956
Conference
Bowl Record
- Alabama Intercollegiate Athletic 0-0 Atlantic Coast 0-1 Big 10 1-0 Big Eight 1-0 Border Intercollegiate Athletic 0-1 California Collegiate Athletic 0-0 Colonial Athletic 0-0 Gulf Coast 0-0 Gulf States 0-0 Heartland Collegiate 0-0 Independent 0-2 Interstate Collegiate Athletic 0-0 Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic 0-0 Lone Star 0-0 Mid-American 0-0 Middle Three 0-0 Missouri Valley 0-0 Mountain States Athletic 0-0 North State 0-0 Northern California Athletic 0-0 Ohio Athletic 0-0 Ohio Valley 0-0 Pacific Coast 0-1 Southeastern 1-1 Southern 0-0 Southwest 2-0
Bowl History
1956
Date
Bowl
Bowl Matchup
1/1/1957 Orange Colorado 27-21 Clemson 1/1/1957 Rose Iowa 35-19 Oregon State 1/1/1957 Sugar Baylor 13-7 Tennessee 1/1/1957 Sun George Washington 13-0 Texas-El Paso 1/1/1957 Cotton Texas Christian 28-27 Syracuse 12/29/1956 Gator Georgia Tech 21-14 Pittsburgh
Great Moments in College Football History
College football's largest margin of victory came in 1916, when Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland by a score of 222 to 0. The game was cut short by 15 minutes.