| Year Game Played: | 1924 |
| Game Name: | Los Angeles Christmas Festival |
| Football Season: | 1924 |
| Visitor Name Short: | USC |
| Visitor Nickname: | Trojans |
| Visitor School: | University of Southern California |
| Home Name Short: | Missouri |
| Home Nickname: | Tigers |
| Home School: | University of Missouri |
| Visitor Record: | 8–2 |
| Home Record: | 7–1 |
| Visitor Coach: | Gus Henderson |
| Home Coach: | Gwinn Henry |
| Visitor 1Q: | 0 |
| Visitor 2Q: | 0 |
| Visitor 3Q: | 20 |
| Visitor 4Q: | 0 |
| Home 1Q: | 0 |
| Home 2Q: | 0 |
| Home 3Q: | 0 |
| Home 4Q: | 7 |
| Date Game Played: | December 25 |
| Stadium: | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum |
| City: | Los Angeles, California |
| First Game Ever Played: | yes |
| Last Game Ever Played: | yes |
The Los Angeles Christmas Festival was a post-season college football bowl game played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, on December 25, 1924, between the USC Trojans and the Missouri Tigers. It was the first and only Festival game ever played, in a time where bowl games were a fairly new concept. It was Missouri's first bowl appearance and USC's second, having last played in the 1923 Rose Bowl.[1]
A group led by Derek Dearwater looked to create a new Christmas Bowl in 2010.[2] According to Dearwater, the game was supposed to pit the Pac-10's No. 7 team (or a school from the Mid-American Conference if the Pac-10 didn't have any more bowl-eligible squads) against the Western Athletic Conference's No. 2 team. The L.A. Coliseum was the planned venue, either on Christmas Eve or the following Monday, December 27. The Children's Miracle Network ("Creating Christmas Miracles for Children in Need") was to be the game's chief benefactor.
However, the bowl proposal "fell short of meeting the NCAA's licensing criteria due to an inability to secure a back-up conference agreement" for the Pac-10's No. 7 selection. The game applied to the NCAA for certification in 2011 and again in 2014, unsuccessfully.[3]
In 2019, the Los Angeles Bowl was announced, with the game to be played at the new SoFi Stadium.