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The Liberty Bowl is an annual U.S. American college football bowl game played in December of each year from 1959 to 2007 and in January in 2009 and 2010. The Liberty Bowl was sponsored by AXA Financial and was known as the AXA Liberty Bowl from 1997 to 2003. Since 2004, the game has been sponsored by Memphis-based auto parts retailer AutoZone, and is now called the AutoZone Liberty Bowl.
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George Winn ran for a 69-yard touchdown in the first half for the Bearcats (10-3), who turned things around after going 4-8 in head coach Butch Jones ' first season.Zach Collaros was on the sidelines when Cincinnati clinched a share of the Big East Conference title. He returned from a broken right ankle, but was limited to only 79 yards on 12-of-29 passing with two interceptions. The senior quarterback did throw a touchdown pass, however.Isaiah Pead, the Big East Conference Offensive Player of the Year, gained 150 yards on 28 carries and notched a game-sealing touchdown late in regulation, helping the Bearcats avoid a third straight bowl loss.Cincinnati's most recent postseason triumph was a 31-21 win over Southern Mississippi in the Papajohns.com Bowl in 2007....The Tennessee State football team will play time meeting with Florida A&M.TSU will open the season against Florida A&M at LP Field in the 14th annual John Merritt Cl...
The five BCS bowl games aren't the only reason to be excited about postseason college football.Sharing the spotlight with the 10 BCS teams Sunday were dozens of othe...
Memphis is the latest school to sign up for a spot in the new Big East.A person familiar with the decision says Memphis is joining the Big East for all sports in 201...
There's a new addition to Georgia's injury report for its Liberty Bowl game: The team's mascot, Uga VIII, will miss the festivities due to illness.However, Georgia h...
CoShik Williams ran for a touchdown and senior wide receiver Matt Roark filled in at quarterback with 124 yards on 24 carries as Kentucky snapped a 26-game losing st...
Ever since University of Central Florida coach George O'Leary came to Orlando, two of the mantras he's repeated most during his seven seasons with the Knights are th...
Central Florida coach George O'Leary says the Knights are not resting on the laurels of the best football season in school history.The defending Conference USA champ...
2010 SEASON IN REVIEW: Mark Richt's winning percentage in 10 years as head coach at Georgia is .738, but last season was certainly one to forget for the successful l...
6 over Georgia in the USA in points allowed (20.6), yards allowed (345), and didn't allow 100 yards rushing in six games.UCF suffered tough single-digit losses to NC...
One of only two games featuring a pair of ranked programs in the first week of the 2011 season, fifth-ranked profile bout against the 19th-ranked Georgia fil-A Kicko...
Larry Porter's first season in Memphis did not ranked Mississippi State Bulldogs at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.Memphis' lone win from a year ago came in the team'...
Off the field, Jacksonville State football players find many ways to develop a bond with each other.They like to attend JSU basketball games or play sports in the re...
The Cincinnati Bearcats of the Big East Conference and the Vanderbilt Commodores of the SEC will celebrate New Year's Eve in Memphis by butting heads in the Liberty ...
Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino veered off a two-lane highway and crashed his motorcycle over the weekend, sending him to a hospital and leaving him in what his family ...
Not so fast, Georgia.The school distributed plaques to its senior football players at its annual awards gala in December with 7-6 inscribed as the team's record. The...
Central Florida wants to be in a BCS automatic-qualifying conference some day. A program that didn't start playing football until 1979 just burnished its resume in a...
The Big East says the Tigers officially accepted an invitation to be part of the conference's next incarnation in 2013. Memphis is the seventh school, and fourth ...
Head football coach Butch Jones received year contract extension from Cincinnati on Tuesday.The extension runs through the 2017 season."I have tremendous faith in Co...
Memphis is the latest school to sign up for a spot in the new Big East.A person familiar with the decision says Memphis is joining the Big East. The person spoke to ...