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Since 1937 football fans and players alike have eagerly awaited the annual Cotton Bowl Classic, playing at a new location this year: Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, leaving the confines of the Cotton Bowl stadium.

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With their big move in mind, the officials behind the Cotton Bowl Classic, aware that the contracts for the current Bowl Championship Series Bowl Games – the Rose Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, the Fiesta Bowl, and Orange Bowl – expire in 2010, are currently making a bid to become one of the next BCS games. In that first 1937 Cotton Bowl Classic game, Texas Christian University beat Marquette, 16-6, playing to around 17,000 fans.

From 1988 to 1995 the Cotton Bowl Classic was sponsored by Mobil, but since then it’s been sponsored by Southwestern Bell which became SBC Communications which in turn became the AT&T we know today, making the full name of this year’s game, the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic.

For the first 40 years of play, the Cotton Bowl Classic featured a team from the Southwest Conference as the home team. Since 1996 the home team has been from the Big 12 conference, pitted against teams from various conferences. This year – and since 1999 - the Big 12 team will face a team from the Southeastern Conference (SEC).

The Cotton Bowl Classic has a revered reputation for hosting some of pro football’s finest future quarterbacks, like: Troy Aikman, Sammy Baugh, Doug Flutie, Dan Marino, Joe Montana, Davey O'Brien, Babe Parelli, Bart Starr, Roger Staubach, Joe Theismann, and Eli Manning.

Between 1985 and 1998, 3 of the 4 winners of the Heisman Trophy completed their college football careers playing in the Cotton Bowl Classic: Boston College’s Doug Flutie in 1985, Auburn University’s Bo Jackson in 1986, and Notre Dame’s Tim Brown in 1988.

The Cotton Bowl Classic is played as most Bowl Games are, on New Year’s Day, and is the second game to kickoff that day, after the Outback Bowl. For decades, the Cotton Bowl Classic was televised by CBS sports, but as of 1999 it’s been broadcast by FOX Sports. In the 2009 Cotton Bowl Classic, the Ole Miss Rebels beat the Texas Tech Red Raiders, 47-34.

Until his death in 1995, Lindsey Nelson (also known as the broadcaster for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball) was considered “the voice” of the Cotton Bowl Classic. Since then, the game has been announced by Pat Summerall, formerly of the Detroit Lions, Chicago Cardinals, and New York Giants, who came out of NFL retirement to broadcast the game.

Get your Cotton Bowl Classic tickets this year, and you’ll still get to be a part of history, because the Cotton Bowl Classic moves to the Dallas Cowboys’ new home stadium in Arlington, Texas on January 1, 2010.