The "Independence Bowl"is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned
Division I college footballbowl game that is
played annually at Independence Stadium in Shreveport,
Louisiana. The
Independence Bowl was named because it was inaugurated in the United
States bicentennial year, 1976.For its first five years, the
game pitted the champion of the Southland Conference against an at-large opponent It then moved to inviting two at-large
teams, until 1995 when it began featuring a Southeastern Conference school against an at-large opponent.
From
1998 to 2009 the game normally featured a matchup between teams representing
the Big 12
Conference and the
SEC. Teams from other conferences were included only if one of those leagues
did not have enough bowl-eligible teams to fill its spot, such as in 2004 when Miami (Ohio) played instead of an SEC squad. In 2008
neither the SEC nor the Big 12 had enough bowl-eligible teams to fill their
respective spots resulting in a matchup of Louisiana Tech and Northern Illinois. From
2010
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