The AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic is a United States college football bowl game played annually since 1937 at the self-named stadium in Dallas, Texas. The Cotton Bowl was previously been known as the Mobil Cotton Bowl Classic, the Southwestern Bell Cotton Bowl Classic, and the SBC Cotton Bowl Classic. Up until the mid-1980s the Cotton Bowl was counted among the four major New Year's bowls, but lost that stature when many SWC teams served NCAA probations for rule violations. Also during this time the Fiesta Bowl, unhindered by conference tie-ins, began attracting national championship contenders and eventually it replaced the Cotton Bowl as one of the four major bowls. The Cotton Bowl now matches teams from the Big 12 Conference and Southeastern Conference. The Cotton Bowl is played on New Year's Day, except in rare instances, when it is moved to January 2, and is usually the first game of the day to kick off. For many decades, the Game was a New Year's Day staple on CBS, where the man most associated with the Cotton Bowl, Lindsey Nelson, handled the play-by-play. Shortly after Nelson's death, NBC transmitted the Cotton Bowl for a brief period during the Mid 90's and now is televised on FOX.