For postseason college football games, see Bowl game.
College Bowl
Logo for the 2021 revival
Genre
Game show
Created by
Don Reid
Developed by
Richard Reid
Directed by
Carrie Havel (2021–22)
Presented by
Allen Ludden
Robert Earle
Art Fleming
Pat Sajak
Dick Cavett
Peyton Manning
Theme music composer
David Russo (2021–22)
Country of origin
United States
Original language
English
No. of seasons
3 (1979–82)
1 (1987)
2 (2021–22)
No. of episodes
20 (2021–22)
Production
Executive producers
Richard Reid
Peyton Manning (2021–22)
Cooper Manning (2021–22)
Eli Manning (2021–22)
Mark Itkin (2021–22)
Harry Friedman (2022)
Production location
Trilith Studios (2022)
Running time
30 minutes (1953–87)
60 minutes (2021–22)
Production companies
Richard Reid Productions
Tough Lamb Media (2021–22)
Village Roadshow Television (2021–22)
Universal Television Alternative Studio (2021–22)
Omaha Productions (2022)
Original release
Network
NBC (1953–55, 1963–70, 2021–22)
CBS (1959–63, 1979–82)
Disney Channel (1987)
Release
October 10, 1953 (1953-10-10) – October 28, 2022 (2022-10-28)
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College Bowl (which has carried a naming rights sponsor, initially General Electric and later Capital One) is a radio, television, and student quiz show. College Bowl first aired on the NBC Radio Network in 1953 as College Quiz Bowl. It then moved to American television broadcast networks, airing from 1959 to 1963 on CBS and from 1963 to 1970 on NBC. In 1977, the president of College Bowl, Richard Reid, developed it into a non-televised national championship competition on campuses across America through an affiliation with the Association of College Unions International (ACUI), which lasted for 31 years. In 1989, College Bowl introduced a (sponsored) version of College Bowl for historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) called Honda Campus All-Star Challenge (HCASC) which is ongoing. In 2007, College Bowl produced a new version and format of the game as an international championship in Africa, called Africa Challenge (Celtel Africa Challenge, Zain Africa Challenge). The College Bowl Campus Program and National Championship ran until 2008.
In November 2020, NBC announced a revival of the show, developed from the format of Honda Campus All-Star Challenge and Africa Challenge, with Peyton Manning as host and a ten-episode run ordered.[1] The revival, Capital One College Bowl, aired from June 22, 2021 to October 28, 2022.[2]
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