| The Chick-fil-A Bowl is one of America’s best bowl games at providing a memorable and exciting bowl experience for the student-athletes, coaches and fans of its participating teams. Did you know… |
| The Chick-fil-A Bowl is the ninth-oldest bowl game in the history of college football AND the oldest ACC vs. SEC match-up in the bowl business? |
| The Chick-fil-A Bowl created and hosted, with partner ESPN, the Chick-fil-A College Kickoff game featuring two top-25 teams – Alabama and Clemson – to start the 2008 season? This prime-time game on ABC drew a sold-out crowd and an appearance by ESPN’s College GameDay. |
| In 2007, the Chick-fil-A Bowl helped create and host the annual Chick-fil-A Bowl Alma Mater at Reynolds Plantation? This made-for-TV golf event features NCAA head coaches and celebrity alumni from around the country competing against their rivals for $350,000 in scholarship money. The Chick-fil-A Bowl Alma Mater will be broadcast by CBS on Christmas Day. |
| When Georgia upset No. 14 Virginia Tech in 2006, the Chick-fil-A Bowl set the all-time attendance record for a sporting event in the Georgia Dome with 75,406 fans in attendance? That’s a bigger crowd than two Super Bowls and all the SEC Football Championship games. |
| The Chick-fil-A Bowl is one of the most competitive bowl games in college football history with an average margin of victory of 8.6 points over the last 20 years? Over its 40-year history, the Bowl has recorded 11 games decided by a field goal or less and four one-point games. |
| The 2007 Chick-fil-A Bowl marked the 11th consecutive sellout, and the 14th in 16 years at the Georgia Dome? Over the last 10 years, the Chick-fil-A Bowl ranks first in average attendance among all non-BCS bowl games – 71,986 per game. |
| The Chick-fil-A Bowl has disbursed $3.47 million in charitable and scholarship contributions in the last six years? The Chick-fil-A Bowl gave an all-time high $1.04 million to organizations in need in 2007 – ranking the Bowl first in giving among all bowl games. |
| The Chick-fil-A Bowl has disbursed more than $43 million in team payouts over the last 10 years? The Chick-fil-A Bowl has paid out $84.9 million in its 40-year history, ranking it 8th in cumulative payout among all bowl games. |
| The Chick-fil-A Bowl generates $30-35 million in economic impact for metro Atlanta each year? In 2003, the Bowl recorded a record-high $35.8 million economic impact in Atlanta, eclipsing the NBA All-Star Game, NCAA Women’s Final Four and the SEC Football Championship game. |
| The Chick-fil-A Bowl has more than 450 volunteers that give of their time to ensure a great Bowl Week experience for our teams and fans? Several volunteers have been with the Bowl more than 30 years. |