College Football Bowls Start Saturday, Only 3 Days Left to Pick Winners in the Egghead.Com Million Dollar Bowl Challenge.CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BW SportsWire)--Dec. 16, 1998--The rush is on to enter the "Egghead.com Million Dollar Bowl Challenge," presented by the FANSonly Network at www.fansonly.com. College football fans shouldn't bother with holiday shopping, only three days remain for this chance to win $1 million. Contestants must enter by Dec. 18 and correctly pick the winners of 22 college football bowl games and the score of the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl The Fiesta Bowl, now sponsored by Tostitos tortilla chips (a Frito-Lay product), is a United States college football game played annually since 1971. Originally, the game was hosted in Tempe, Arizona at Sun Devil Stadium where it remained until 2006. , featuring Florida State and Tennessee on Jan. 4, 1999, in Tempe, Ariz. "College football fans know their team, they know the stakes, and they know the one million-dollar payoff is up for grabs by putting their knowledge of the season to work now," said Jeff Cravens, vice president for product development for the FANSonly Network. The college football bowl season kicks off Saturday, Dec. 19 with the Las Vegas Bowl The Las Vegas Bowl is an NCAA-sanctioned Division I-A post-season college football bowl game that has been played annually at 40,000-seat Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada since 1992. , which features San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. State (www.goaztecs.com) and North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. (www.tarheelblue.com). To enter the Egghead.com Challenge, fans can register online at www.fansonly.com/challenge. Winners will be announced on Jan. 7, 1999. If no one claims the $1 million grand prize, the most successful prognosticators will win thousands of dollars in gift certificates from Egghead.com. Located on the Web at www.egghead.com, Egghead currently offers four separate buying venues including virtual superstores and auctions: Egghead Computer; Egghead Software This article is about historical United States software retailer. For other uses for the word "egghead", see Egghead (disambiguation). Egghead Software was founded in 1984 as a computer software retail company. ; Egghead SurplusDirect and Egghead Auctions. Egghead.com is the only national brick and mortar See bricks and mortar. retailer to move its entire business to the Internet. The Egghead.com Million Dollar Challenge is one of many interactive features within the FANSonly Network. In addition to breaking news and complete sports coverage, FANSonly provides its users with interactive games and contests that capitalize on the strong affinity of the college sports fan. The FANSonly Network, the largest collegiate sports site on the Internet, comprises nearly 50 official athletic sites, including college football powers Florida State (www.seminoles.com), UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX (www.uclabruins.com), Ohio State (www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com), and Arizona (www.arizcats.com). There are 20 FANSonly Network schools playing in football bowl games this season. |
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