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The Emerald Bowl is a post-season college football bowl game certified by the NCAA that has been played annually at 40,800-seat AT&T Park (home of the San Francisco Giants) in San Francisco, California, since 2002. It was previously known as the San Francisco Bowl and its official name was the Diamond Walnut San Francisco Bowl in recognition of the corporate title sponsor, Diamond of California, from 2002 to 2003. (The company is now known as Diamond Foods, Inc., with Emerald of California its primary snack nut brand, and as such remains the title sponsor.)
In 2004, the bowl produced what later turned out to be a record-setting drive. In the third quarter, Navy, with a 31-19 lead, successfully forced New Mexico into a three-and-out, culminating in a goal-line stand. Taking over on offense, the Midshipmen then executed a drive that encompassed 26 plays, 94 yards, and 14 minutes and 26 seconds of the game clock, stretching well into the fourth quarter. The NCAA later confirmed that the drive was historic, setting records for the number of plays in a drive and time of possession in a drive.[1]
With the move of the Insight Bowl from Chase Field to Sun Devil Stadium, the Emerald Bowl was the only NCAA Division I bowl game held at a stadium used exclusively by a professional baseball team for two years. (Dolphin Stadium and Rogers Centre, two other bowl sites, have both baseball and football tenants.) With the establishment of two new games for the 2008-09 season - the Congressional Bowl at Nationals Park in Washington, DC, home of the Washington Nationals and the St. Petersburg Bowl at Tropicana Field in the host's namesake city in Florida, where the Tampa Bay Rays play - this will bring the total of baseball stadia hosting football postseason games to three. Since AT&T Park is not normally used for football, the makeshift arrangements of the playing field require both team to be on the same sideline, separated by a barrier at the 50-yard line.
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List of college bowl games
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- ^ Navy took the place of a Pac-10 team as their conference did not have enough bowl-eligible teams.
- ^ Because the Pac-10 did not have enough teams to qualify, Georgia Tech from the ACC was named the replacement.
