The Capital One Bowl was previously known as the Florida Citrus Bowl and before that the Tangerine Bowl, and it's a pretty safe bet that not a lot of football tickets were sold for the inaugural 1947 game in which mighty Catawba College defeated Maryville by a score of 31-0. Fast forward 60 years, and Capital One Bowl game tickets are now among the most coveted of all college football bowl game tickets. Played on New Year's Day, the Capital One Bowl is traditionally an appetizer for the Rose Bowl played later in the afternoon. The Capital One Bowl gets first pick of teams after the BCS bowls, and because of the game's affiliation with the Big Ten and SEC you can be assured of a great game and that's certainly the case this year with the Florida Gators taking on the Michigan Wolverines. The game has a history of close finishes and several times in recent years the 70,000-seat capacity of the Citrus Bowl Stadium in Orlando has been exceeded, including the 1998 record of 72,940 Capital One Bowl tickets sold. So what's in your wallet? With a litle help from GoTickets.com, you can have Michigan Capital One Bowl game tickets or Florida Capital One Bowl game tickets.

The historic Citrus Bowl, which first opened in 1936 and is set to undergo a massive expansion and renovation in the near future, is also home to the Champs Sports Bowl scheduled for December 28, four days before the Capital One Bowl. So if you want to take a great college football vacation in sunny Florida, GoTickets.com can set you up with Champs Sports Bowl tickets and Capital One Bowl tickets.