Poinsettia Bowl
| Poinsettia Bowl | |
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| San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl | |
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| Stadium | Qualcomm Stadium |
| Location | San Diego, California |
| Operated | 2005–2016 |
| Conference tie-ins | Army 2013 |
| Previous conference tie-ins | Pac-12, Navy; MW vs. BYU 2012 |
| Payout | US$612,500 per team |
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San Diego County Credit Union (2005–2016)
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| 2016 matchup | |
| BYU vs. Wyoming (BYU 24–21) | |
Coordinates: 32°46′59″N 117°7′10″W / 32.78306°N 117.11944°W
The Poinsettia Bowl was a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Football Bowl Subdivision college football bowl game, re-created and played for the first time since 1955 in 2005 by the organizers of the Holiday Bowl. The Poinsettia Bowl was played in late-December each year at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California. The game's last sponsor was the San Diego County Credit Union, and it was named the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl. The Mountain West Conference team placing second in the conference received a reserved invitation to this bowl through the 2014 season.
The original incarnation of the Poinsettia Bowl was as the military services championship game, pitting the Western and Eastern Military Services champions against each other. In the inaugural Poinsettia Bowl, Bolling Air Force Base defeated the San Diego Naval Training Center by a score of 35–14 on December 20, 1952. The game was held at Balboa Stadium in San Diego in a torrential downpour, before hundreds of reluctant sailors (including Hayden Fry) who were ordered to sit in the stands so that they wouldn't appear empty in the nationally televised game. Television came to terms with the NCAA the next year, making the 1952 Poinsettia Bowl the last nationally televised game between military teams other than the annual Army-Navy game. In the 1953 Poinsettia Bowl, the Quantico Marines team led by Fry lost to the Army team, the Fort Ord Warriors, a team that featured quarterback Don Heinrich and running back Ollie Matson. Fort Ord repeated as champion in 1955, the year of the fourth and final such Poinsettia Bowl.
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