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Alamo Bowl Wiki Information
The Alamo Bowl
is a major American college football bowl game played annually since 1993 in the 65,000-seat Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. It matches the fourth or fifth choice (not necessarily fourth or fifth place) teams from the Big Ten Conference and the Big 12 Conference.
Traditionally, the Alamo Bowl has been played in December. The 2010 game will mark the first time the game will be played in January.
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History
The game was previously known as the Builders Square Alamo Bowl
(1993–1998), the Sylvania Alamo Bowl
(1999–2001) and the MasterCard Alamo Bowl
(2002–2005). The logo of the event has evolved to reflect the changes in sponsorship. On May 24, 2007 the Alamo Bowl announced a partnership with Valero Energy Corporation, and thus the bowl's full name was changed to the Valero Alamo Bowl
.
The game originally gave an automatic invite to a team from the non-defunct Southwest Conference (SWC). However, in 1993, only two of the eight SWC teams finished with the necessary 6 wins to become bowl-eligible (and those two teams were already committed to other bowls). The Alamo Bowl invited the Iowa Hawkeyes instead. The SWC was able to provide participants for the next two seasons (Baylor and Texas A&M) before the conference disbanded.
During the 1996 Alamo Bowl, the wore plain black helmets (removing their tigerhawk logo and gold stripe) in honor of linebacker Mark Mitchell's mother, who died in a car accident while traveling to San Antonio for the game.
The 2002 Alamo Bowl played between and was the first ever game to have gone into overtime, with the unranked Badgers defeating the No. 14 ranked Buffaloes after kicking a field goal to win 31–28. The 2008 Alamo Bowl between Missouri and Northwestern also went into overtime, with Missouri defeating Northwestern 30-23.
The 2005 Alamo Bowl ended on one of the most controversial plays in bowl game history, [1] a multi-lateral play in which almost the entire Nebraska team and coaching staff (as well as a few players, Michigan coaches and media) entered onto the field, and Nebraska gave their coach the Gatorade Dunk before the play was blown dead, bringing up memories of 1982's " The Play", 2000's " Music City Miracle", and 2002's " Bluegrass Miracle."
The 2007 Alamo Bowl between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Texas A&M Aggies was attended by 66,166, which set an Alamodome facility-record crowd for a sporting event, breaking the previous year's game between Iowa and Texas. Penn State won the game 24-17. [2] [3]
The Alamo Bowl has sold out six of its fifteen games (1995, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2006 and 2007). [4]
In the fictional TV series Coach
, the Alamodome (site of the Alamo Bowl) was the host of College Football's 1993 National Championship game.
On August 28, 2009, the Alamo Bowl organizers announced they had reached an agreement with the Pac-10 Conference to replace the Big Ten in the Alamo Bowl. Under the terms of the agreement the Pac-10's #2 team, unless they qualify as a BCS at large team, will earn an automatic bid to the Alamo Bowl (currently, the #2 Pac-10 team plays a Big XII team in the Holiday Bowl in San Diego). The agreement takes effect beginning with the 2010 college football season. [5]
Media coverage
The Alamo Bowl has produced eight of the top 20 most-watched bowl games in ESPN history. In 2006, the Alamo Bowl featured the Texas Longhorns and the Iowa Hawkeyes in a game that earned a 6.0 rating, making it the most-watched college football game in ESPN history as more than 8.83 million viewers saw the telecast. [6]
Previous results
| Date Played
| Winning Team
| Losing Team
| Attendance
| Notes
|
| December 31, 1993
|
| 37
| Iowa
| 3
| 45,716
| notes
|
| December 31, 1994
|
| 10
|
| 3
| 44,106
| notes
|
| December 28, 1995
| (19) Texas A&M
| 22
|
| 20
| 64,597
| notes
|
| December 29, 1996
|
| 27
|
| 0
| 55,677
| notes
|
| December 30, 1997
|
| 33
|
| 20
| 55,552
| notes
|
| December 29, 1998
|
| 37
| (4) Kansas State
| 34
| 60,780
| notes
|
| December 28, 1999
| (13) Penn State
| 24
| (18) Texas A&M
| 0
| 65,380
| notes
|
| December 30, 2000
| (8) Nebraska
| 66
|
| 17
| 60,028
| notes
|
| December 29, 2001
| Iowa
| 19
| Texas Tech
| 16
| 65,232
| notes
|
| December 28, 2002
|
| 31
|
| 28 (OT)
| 50,690
| notes
|
| December 29, 2003
| (22) Nebraska
| 17
|
| 3
| 56,229
| notes
|
| December 29, 2004
| (24) Ohio State
| 33
|
| 7
| 65,265
| notes
|
| December 28, 2005
| Nebraska
| 32
|
| 28
| 62,016
| notes
|
| December 30, 2006
| (18) Texas
| 26
| Iowa
| 24
| 65,875 | notes
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| December 29, 2007
| Penn State
| 24
| Texas A&M
| 17
| 66,166
| notes
|
| December 29, 2008
| (25) Missouri
| 30
| (22) Northwestern
| 23 (OT)
| 55,986
| notes
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†Rankings reflect rank at time of bowl game and taken from AP Top 25 poll
MVPs
| Date played
| MVPs
| Team
| Position
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| December 31, 1993
| Dave Barr
| California
| QB
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| Jerrot Willard
| California
| LB
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| December 31, 1994
| Chad Davis
| Washington State
| QB
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| Ron Childs
| Washington State
| LB
|
| December 28, 1995
| Kyle Bryant
| Texas A&M
| K
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| Keith Mitchell
| Texas A&M
| LB
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| December 29, 1996
| Sedrick Shaw
| Iowa
| RB
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| Jared DeVries
| Iowa
| DL
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| December 30, 1997
| Billy Dicken
| Purdue
| QB
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| Adrian Beasley
| Purdue
| S
|
| December 29, 1998
| Drew Brees
| Purdue
| QB
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| Rosevelt Colvin
| Purdue
| DE
|
| December 28, 1999
| Rashard Casey
| Penn State
| QB
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| LaVar Arrington
| Penn State
| LB
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| December 30, 2000
| Dan Alexander
| Nebraska
| RB
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| Kyle Vanden Bosch
| Nebraska
| DL
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| December 29, 2001
| Aaron Greving
| Iowa
| RB
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| Derrick Pickens
| Iowa
| DL
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| December 29, 2002
| Brooks Bollinger
| Wisconsin
| QB
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| Jeff Mack
| Wisconsin
| LB
|
| December 29, 2003
| Jammal Lord
| Nebraska
| QB
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| Trevor Johnson
| Nebraska
| DL
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| December 29, 2004
| Ted Ginn Jr.
| Ohio State
| WR/PR/KR
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| Simon Fraser
| Ohio State
| DE
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| December 28, 2005
| Cory Ross
| Nebraska
| RB
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| Leon Hall
| Michigan
| CB
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| December 30, 2006
| Colt McCoy
| Texas
| QB
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| Aaron Ross
| Texas
| CB
|
| December 29, 2007
| Rodney Kinlaw
| Penn State
| RB
|
| Sean Lee
| Penn State
| LB
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| December 29, 2008
| Jeremy Maclin
| Missouri
| WR/PR/KR
|
| Sean Weatherspoon
| Missouri
| LB
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Most appearances
| Rank
| Team
| Appearances
| Record
|
| 1
| Iowa
| 4
| 2-2
|
| T2
| Nebraska
| 3
| 3-0
|
| T2
| Texas A&M
| 3
| 1-2
|
| T4
| Michigan
| 2
| 0-2
|
| T4
| Penn State
| 2
| 2-0
|
| T4
| Oklahoma State
| 2
| 0-2
|
| T4
| Purdue
| 2
| 2-0
|
| T4
| Texas Tech
| 2
| 0-2
|
| T4
| Northwestern
| 2
| 0-2
|
| T9
| Baylor
| 1
| 0-1
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| T9
| California
| 1
| 1-0
|
| T9
| Colorado
| 1
| 0-1
|
| T9
| Kansas State
| 1
| 0-1
|
| T9
| Michigan State
| 1
| 0-1
|
| T9
| Texas
| 1
| 1-0
|
| T9
| Ohio State
| 1
| 1-0
|
| T9
| Washington State
| 1
| 1-0
|
| T9
| Wisconsin
| 1
| 1-0
|
| T9
| Missouri
| 1
| 1-0
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References
- 2005 Alamo Bowl: Michigan v. Nebraska end of game, YouTube.
- 2006 Alamo Bowl attendance ranks as the #1 all-time sports attendance in Alamodome history, The San Antonio Bowl Association, December 30, 2006.
- Alamo Bowl crowd sets Alamodome record
- 2006 Alamo Bowl Media Guide, pp. 1–22, (PDF), The San Antonio Bowl Association.
- http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4429272
- 2006 Alamo Bowl ranks as ESPN's most-watched bowl game, MackBrown-TexasFootball.com, January 3, 2007.
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