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Watch as the 2025 Sugar Bowl kicks off on Wednesday, New Year's Day, January 1, 2025 on ESPN, live from Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.

Just to sweeten the pot, this year's Sugar Bowl game is the final game of the quarterfinals in the newly expanded 12-team college football playoff leading up to the 2025 College Football Championship on January 20th.

The game immediatley follows another newly-designated quarterfinal, the 2025 Rose Bowl.

All about the Sugar Bowl

The Sugar Bowl boasts one of the oldest traditions in the game, dating back to January 1, 1935 when the first Sugar Bowl was played at Tulane University.

Today, the Sugar Bowl still ranks as one of the most exciting end-of-season venues in college football, and one of the "New Years Six" bowls in rotation for the College Football Playoff.

DID YOU KNOW? Sugar Bowl trivia & fun facts

• Sweet victory: the solid silver Sugar Bowl trophy

  The Sugar Bowl is the second-oldest bowl game in college football, behind the Rose Bowl.
  

• More No.1-ranked teams have played in the Sugar Bowl than any other bowl game.
  

• Broadcast coast to coast, the 1953 Sugar Bowl was the first live television program in New Orleans history.
  

• The 2006 Sugar Bowl game was played at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta due to the damage that the Superdome had suffered during Hurricane Katrina. The game returned to a refurbished Superdome the following year.
  

• The actual "Sugar Bowl" is a solid silver trophy made in London in 1830.

More about the Sugar Bowl around the Web

2025 Sugar Bowl - You've arrived at the official site with more on this year's game along with history, fast facts, ticket purchase, and New Orleans visitor guide.

Sugar Bowl at Sports Reference.com - Love Sugar Bowl stats? Get them all here with a complete list of games and final scores dating back to 1935.

Sugar Bowl - Wikipedia entry on the game with history, stats, winners, pictures and related resources.