# Aloha Bowl

The Aloha Bowl was a college football bowl game played in Honolulu, Hawaii, at Aloha Stadium. Certified by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the game featured teams from Division I-A (later known as the Football Bowl Subdivision).

## History

The Aloha Bowl was established in 1982 by Mackay Yanagisawa, a sportsman from Oahu. With the exception of the 1983–1986 playings, the Aloha Bowl was traditionally played on Christmas morning in Honolulu. For most of its playings, the game was sponsored by Jeep Corporation. The bowl originally applied for certification by the NCAA Division I Championship Committee in 1981, but certification was delayed until 1982. The inaugural game was played in 1982 and the last game was played in 2000, after it lost its sponsorship as a result of a corporate merger between Jeep and DaimlerChrysler. In 1998 and 1999, the Aloha Bowl was part of a doubleheader followed by the Oahu Bowl; the 1998 event was the first televised doubleheader in American college football history.
After Jeep dropped its sponsorship, the bowl committees of the Hawaiian bowl games elected to move the games to the U.S. mainland. The Oahu Bowl moved to Seattle and was played as the Seattle Bowl for two years. The Aloha Bowl was to move to San Francisco, but before the move could be completed the game lost its bowl certification. San Francisco later received a bowl game, first played in December 2002 as the San Francisco Bowl, which later operated under several other names. Hawaii did not remain without a bowl for long, however, as a new bowl committee received certification in 2002 for a Christmastime game, the Hawaii Bowl, at Aloha Stadium.
The Aloha Bowl was preceded years earlier by the Poi Bowl (late 1930s) and Pineapple Bowl (1940s and early 1950s).

## Game results

| Date | Winner | Winner | Loser | Loser | Attendance | Notes |
| December 25, 1982 | #9 Washington | 21 | #16 Maryland | 20 | 30,055 | notes |
| December 26, 1983 | Penn State | 13 | Washington | 10 | 37,212 | notes |
| December 29, 1984 | #10 SMU | 27 | #17 Notre Dame | 20 | 41,777 | notes |
| December 28, 1985 | #13 Alabama | 24 | USC | 3 | 35,183 | notes |
| December 27, 1986 | #13 Arizona | 30 | North Carolina | 21 | 26,743 | notes |
| December 25, 1987 | #10 UCLA | 20 | Florida | 16 | 24,839 | notes |
| December 25, 1988 | #18 Washington State | 24 | #14 Houston | 22 | 35,132 | notes |
| December 25, 1989 | #22 Michigan State | 33 | #19 Hawaii | 13 | 50,000 | notes |
| December 25, 1990 | Syracuse | 28 | Arizona | 0 | 14,185 | notes |
| December 25, 1991 | Georgia Tech | 18 | #17 Stanford | 17 | 34,433 | notes |
| December 25, 1992 | Kansas | 23 | #23 BYU | 20 | 42,933 | notes |
| December 25, 1993 | #17 Colorado | 41 | #24 Fresno State | 30 | 44,009 | notes |
| December 25, 1994 | #25 Boston College | 12 | #8 Kansas State | 7 | 44,862 | notes |
| December 25, 1995 | #11 Kansas | 51 | #24 UCLA | 30 | 41,111 | notes |
| December 25, 1996 | Navy | 42 | Cal | 38 | 43,380 | notes |
| December 25, 1997 | #21 Washington | 51 | #25 Michigan State | 23 | 44,598 | notes |
| December 25, 1998 | Colorado | 51 | #21 Oregon | 43 | 46,451 | notes |
| December 25, 1999 | Wake Forest | 23 | Arizona State | 3 | 40,974 | notes |
| December 25, 2000 | Boston College | 31 | Arizona State | 17 | 24,397 | notes |

## Appearances by team

| Rank | Team | Appearances | Wins | Losses | Win % |
| 1 | [[Washington Huskies football|Washington]] | 3 | 2 | 1 | .667 |
| T2 | [[Boston College Eagles football|Boston College]] | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1.000 |
| T2 | [[Colorado Buffaloes football|Colorado]] | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1.000 |
| T2 | [[Arizona State Sun Devils football|Arizona State]] | 2 | 0 | 2 | .000 |
| T2 | [[Kansas Jayhawks football|Kansas]] | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1.000 |
| T2 | [[Arizona Wildcats football|Arizona]] | 2 | 1 | 1 | .500 |
| T2 | [[Michigan State Spartans football|Michigan State]] | 2 | 1 | 1 | .500 |
| T2 | [[UCLA Bruins football|UCLA]] | 2 | 1 | 1 | .500 |
| T3 | [[Alabama Crimson Tide football|Alabama]] | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 |
| T3 | [[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football|Georgia Tech]] | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 |
| T3 | [[Navy Midshipmen football|Navy]] | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 |
| T3 | [[Penn State Nittany Lions football|Penn State]] | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 |
| T3 | [[SMU Mustangs football|SMU]] | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 |
| T3 | [[Syracuse Orange football|Syracuse]] | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 |
| T3 | [[Wake Forest Demon Deacons football|Wake Forest]] | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 |
| T3 | [[Washington State Cougars football|Washington State]] | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 |
| T3 | [[BYU Cougars football|BYU]] | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
| T3 | [[California Golden Bears football|Cal]] | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
| T3 | [[Florida Gators football|Florida]] | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
| T3 | [[Fresno State Bulldogs football|Fresno State]] | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
| T3 | [[Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football|Hawaii]] | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
| T3 | [[Houston Cougars football|Houston]] | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
| T3 | [[Kansas State Wildcats football|Kansas State]] | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
| T3 | [[Mayland Terrapins football|Maryland]] | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
| T3 | [[North Carolina Tar Heels football|North Carolina]] | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
| T3 | [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish football|Notre Dame]] | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
| T3 | [[Oregon Ducks football|Oregon]] | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
| T3 | [[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]] | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
| T3 | [[USC Trojans football|USC]] | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 |

## Appearances by conference

| Rank | Conference | Appearances | Record | Win % | # of Teams | Teams |
| 1 | Pac-10 | 14 | 5–9 | .357 | 9 | Washington (2–1) Arizona (1–1) UCLA (1–1) Arizona State (0–2) Washington State (1–0) Cal (0–1) Oregon (0–1) Stanford (0–1) USC (0–1) |
| T2 | ACC | 4 | 2–2 | .500 | 4 | Georgia Tech (1–0) Maryland (0–1) North Carolina (0–1) Wake Forest (1–0) |
| T2 | Big Eight | 4 | 3–1 | .750 | 3 | Kansas (2–0) Colorado (1–0) Kansas State (0–1) |
| T2 | Independent | 4 | 3–1 | .750 | 3 | Navy (1–0) Notre Dame (0–1) Penn State (1–0) Syracuse (1–0) |
| 5 | WAC | 3 | 0–3 | .000 | 3 | BYU (0–1) Fresno State (0–1) Hawaii (0–1) |
| T6 | Big East | 2 | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | Boston College (2–0) |
| T6 | Big Ten | 2 | 1–1 | .500 | 1 | Michigan State (1–1) |
| T6 | SEC | 2 | 1–1 | .500 | 2 | Alabama (1–0) Florida (0–1) |
| T6 | SWC | 2 | 1–1 | .500 | 2 | SMU (1–0) Houston (0–1) |
| 10 | Big 12 | 1 | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | Colorado (1–0) |
*Note: Table based on conference affiliation at the time the game was played and may not represent current conference alignment.

## Television

Most editions of the Aloha Bowl were televised by ABC (1986–2000).