Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium
The conference was founded, and competes in the U.S. state of Maine.
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| Locale | New England |
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| Latest meeting | November 7, 2016 Garcelon Field, Lewiston, Maine |
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| Most wins | Bowdoin: 16 (football) Bates: 14 (rowing) Bates: 15 (sport wins) |
| Largest victory | Bates-Colby 51–0 (football) |
| Longest win streak | Bates: 2006-2016 (rowing) Colby: 1988-1992 (football) |
| Current win streak | Bates (2014-) (football) Bates (2006-) (rowing) |
The Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium (abbreviated as the CBB Consortium or simply the CBB) is an athletic conference of three private liberal arts colleges in New England, United States. The members are:
The conference encapsulates all sports played between the colleges, most notably in football and in rowing. Bates and Bowdoin have competed against each other athletically since the 1870s and subsequently share one of the ten oldest NCAA Division III football rivalries, in the United States. In the 1940s, Colby began competing and subsequently went on to form the consortium in the 1960s, after the University of Maine moved to Division I athletics. All three schools compete in the New England Small College Athletic Conference, and are considered highly selective and academically rigorous.
Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin also share academic resources, such as library texts, faculty resources and job recruiting facilities. Maine native, actor, and philanthropist, Patrick Dempsey holds an annual competition between Colby, Bates and Bowdoin to fundraise for charities. The inaugural CBB Patrick Dempsey Challenge was won by Bates in 2015. Bates won the 2016 CBB Championship Game with a 24–7 win over Bowdoin, after their 21–19 home victory over Colby.
The CBB competition often draws comparisons to the football games of the Big Three of the Ivy League, with Bowdoin often drawing the connection to Harvard, Bates to Princeton, and Colby to Yale. Just as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are initialized as HYP, so too are Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin as CBB. The consortium was featured on The Bleacher Report in a 2009 article entitled, "Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin: Plenty of History Behind These Football Rivals."
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