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10 most memorable Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl games

1. The Peach Bowl has been played in Atlanta since 1968. 2. The game was originally created as a fundraiser for the Lions Club of Georgia. 3. Chick-fil-A, based in nearby College Park, has sponsored it since 1997. 4. It sold out 17 straight games between 1998 and 2013. 5. Auburn will play UCF on Jan. 1, 2018.
By Alex Makrides
Dec 26, 2017

This year marks the 50th Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl.

In honor of the ninth-oldest bowl game in college football history we look back at the top-10 games in the Peach Bowl's existence: from the 2016 College Football Playoff Semifinal between Alabama and Washington (the highest-ranked matchup in the 49-year history) to the 1995 shocker that left Georgia on the wrong side of Peach Bowl history.

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