The Raisin Bowl was an annual post-season American college football bowl game played at

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, from 1946 to 1949.
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team against an at-large team; the California team prevailed in four of the five games. This game is not to be confused with the California Bowl which was later staged in Fresno, which in its later years was marketed as the California Raisin Bowl due to the sale of

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to the California Raisin Marketing Board.

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