Dixie Rotary Bowl The Dixie Rotary Bowl was a college bowl game hosted in St . George , Utah and initiated by the St . George Rotary Club as a venue that would be presumed to be frequently used by the hometown Dixe State Junior College . From 1986 to 2005 , it was a junior college bowl game sanctioned by the National Junior College Athletic Association . The bowl featured contests between top NJCAA teams from around the nation . In 2003 , the bowl played host to the sanctioned NJCAA National Football Championship . The bowl transitioned to NCAA Division II from 2006 to 2008 after Dixie State became a four - year college and transitioned to an NCAA Division II team . The bowl was canceled before the beginning of the 2009 season after Dixie had not appeared in two seasons , resulting in waning local interest and the inability to find adequate area sponsorships . History of the Bowl . The Dixie Rotary Bowl was initiated as a community service project of the St . George Rotary Club . The bowl was conceived in an effort to further the club ' s service goals and objectives . The bowl became prominently recognized throughout the country as one of the top JUCO bowl games in the nation . Beginning in 1991 , the annual bowl game was broadcast around the world on Armed Forces Radio Network . The 1996 game was televised live to 33 states and millions of homes by Prime Sports Network , the first live broadcast of a JUCO bowl game in history . The bowl began a transition to the NCAA Division II in 2006 . Special permission was granted by the NCAA to allow Dixie State College to participate in the bowl during the transition years of 2006 and 2007 . They would face the top - placing team in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference not receiving a bid to the NCAA Division II playoffs . In 2007 , the Dixie Rotary Bowl has finalized their agreement to participate in the NCAA Division II , inking a participation agreement with the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and the Great Northwest Athletic Conference . Under the agreement , each team was to send their top - placing team that did not receive a bid to the NCAA Division II football playoffs . NJCAA National Championships . The Dixie Rotary Bowl twice played host to the NJCAA National Football Championship . The first contest was an unsanctioned championship contest between # 1 Dixie State College and # 3 Butler Community College in 1999 . Butler pulled off an upset , defeating Dixie State College 49 - 35 . Butler was crowned as the national NJCAA football champion . In 2003 , the Dixie Rotary Bowl organizing committee received sanctioning from the NJCAA as # 1 Butler Community College and # 2 Dixie State College of Utah met again for the national title - a contest Butler won 14 - 10 . NCAA Division II . In 2006 , faced with the possibility of attendance problems for a junior college game in which no local team was involved , the Dixie Rotary Bowl began its transition to a NCAA Division II game for the best teams not making the NCAA Division II National Football Championship playoffs between the Great Northwest Athletic Conference and Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference . It terminated the program before the 2009 season because it could not find sponsors .