January 2nd:The Sugar Bowl and Cotton Bowl are sporting events that have taken place annually for more than seven decades.  This year will be no different as both events will take place today, Friday January 2nd. The Sugar Bowl happens to be New Orleans' oldest sporting event dating back to 1935; it will take place in the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans and will feature college football teams Utah vs. Alabama.Click Here for more.

Not to be outdone, the Cotton Bowl will occur today at 2p.m. in Dallas, Texas. To keep up with the New Year's spirit, local organisations organise a parade and a marching band contest to provide entertainment for the holiday crowd. The Cotton Bowl, which has been sponsored by AT&T for many years now, will kick off with college teams from Texas and Mississippi. Click Here for more.

~History: Along with the Orange Bowl and Sun Bowl (also played annually since 1935), the Sugar Bowl is the second-oldest bowl game in the country, behind the Rose Bowl (first played 1902, played annually since 1916). The Sugar Bowl is also a member of the Bowl Championship Series. Presently, its official title is the Allstate Sugar Bowl after its current sponsor. The Sugar Bowl hosted the BCS National Championship Game in 2000 and 2004. However, since the 2006 season, the BCS National Championship Game has been a stand-alone event one week following the New Year's Day bowl games (including the Sugar Bowl). In other words, under the current BCS format, the Sugar Bowl will not host the BCS National Championship Game, although the Louisiana Superdome will continue to be one of the stadiums used to host the BCS National Championship Game a week after the Sugar Bowl.

The Cotton Bowl Classic was founded in Dallas, Texas in 1937 at the Texas State Fair Grounds, when Texas oil executive J. Curtis Sanford financed the first one out of his own pocket. Texas Christian University took on Marquette, winning 16-6, but the game lost money even though some 17,000 attended. Nonetheless, Sanford persevered, and in 1938 the game made a profit as Rice defeated Colorado 28-14, in front of a crowd of 37,000.^Wikipedia