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About the SBC Cotton Bowl
The Cotton Bowl Classic is a United States college football bowl game played annually since 1937 in Dallas, Texas. The game is currently sponsored by SBC and is officially called the SBC Cotton Bowl Classic. It has previously been known as the Mobil Cotton Bowl Classic and the Southwestern Bell Cotton Bowl Classic.
For 40 years the champion of the now-defunct Southwest Conference played as the home team in the Cotton Bowl. When the conference folded in 1996, the bowl lost much of its stature. It now matches teams from the Big Twelve Conference and Southeastern Conference.
The Cotton Bowl is a stadium which opened in 1932. It is located in Fair Park, site of the State Fair in Dallas, Texas. It has a natural grass surface and a capacity of 68,252. The name is a pun on "cotton ball".
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