Las Vegas All-American Classic
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The Las Vegas All-American Classic is an annual post-season college football all-star game played each January or February since 2002. The game was known in 2002 and 2003 as the Paradise Bowl and was conceived by Darry Alton, who would later help found the Magnolia Gridiron All-Star Classic, in view of the discontinuation of the Blue-Gray Football Classic and the Gridiron Classic, in order to provide players from lesser known and televised schools or players who were primarily backups with a chance to impress NFL scouts.
The game, played in 2002 and 2003 in Saint George, Utah (on the campus of Dixie State College of Utah at Hansen Stadium), is currently held at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada and matches a team of players from Division I-A and I-AA schools located east of the Mississippi River (who play as the "East" team) against players from schools located west of Mississippi (who play as the "West" team). The present format was adopted for the game held in 2004; in 2002, the game matched players from schools located in Colorado and Utah (playing as the "Utah-Colorado All-Stars") against players from schools in other Western states (playing as the "West All-Stars"), and in 2003, the game matched players from Midwestern schools ("MidWest All-Stars") against players from Western schools (West All-Stars"). The game aims each year to field teams each of about fifty players, all of whom are to be NFL draft-eligible (in their junior years or later), of whom forty to forty-five are to be from Division I-A schools. Prior to the game, players take place in team practices and combines open to professional scouts; a reception honoring offensive and defensive most valuable players for each team follows the game.
Although in 2002 and 2003 contested on the Saturday preceding the Super Bowl, the game is now played on the weekend preceding Martin Luther King Day. The game had televised regionally on Fox Sports Net networks, but beginning in 2007, the game will be telecast on the NFL Network.
[edit] Previous results
| Date Played | Winning Team | Losing Team | ||
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| February 2, 2002 | West All-Stars | 33 | Utah-Colorado All-Stars | 20 (2OT) |
| January 25, 2003 | Midwest All-Stars | 36 | West All-Stars | 31 |
| January 17, 2004 | West | 14 | East | 7 |
| January 22, 2005 | West | 21 | East | 16 |
| January 14, 2006 | East | 41 | West | 3 |
Series Records: West (3-2) Midwest (1-0) East (1-2) Utah-Colorado (0-1)
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| All-Star Games: North-South All-Star Classic (Jan. 13) • Hula Bowl (Jan. 14) • Las Vegas All-American Classic (Jan. 15) • East-West Shrine Game (Jan. 20) • Senior Bowl (Jan. 27) • Texas vs. The Nation Game (Feb. 2) | |||||||
