The 1956–57 NCAA football bowl games were a series of post-season games played in December 1956 and January 1957 to end the
1956 NCAA University Division football season
The 1956 NCAA University Division football season saw the University of Oklahoma Sooners finish a third consecutive season unbeaten and untied to again win the national championship.
The 1956 season saw the NCAA split member schools into two divi ...
. A total of seven team-competitive games,
and four all-star games, were played. The post-season began with the
Gator Bowl on December 29, 1956, and concluded on January 5, 1957, with the season-ending
Senior Bowl
The Senior Bowl is a post-season college football all-star game played annually in late January or early February in Mobile, Alabama, which showcases the best NFL Draft prospects of those players who have completed their college eligibility. Pr ...
all-star game.
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Schedule
The following table lists bowl games involving University Division teams; bowl games at lower levels are listed in the ''
See also
See also may refer to:
* Citation signal, reference formats which often appear in technical, scientific, and legal documents
* cf.
The abbreviation ''cf.'' (short for the la, confer/conferatur, both meaning "compare") is used in writing to r ...
'' section.
denotes conference champion
See also
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Aluminum Bowl
The Aluminum Bowl was a one-time postseason college football bowl game held in 1956 as the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) championship game. It featured the Montana State University-Bozeman and St. Joseph's College. Mon ...
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Burley Bowl The Burley Bowl was a postseason college football bowl games, bowl game played from 1945 through 1956. It was held each year on Thanksgiving (United States), Thanksgiving Day in Johnson City, Tennessee, at the city's Memorial Stadium, which was dem ...
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Prairie View Bowl
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Refrigerator Bowl
Notes
References
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