Motor City Bowl

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Motor City Bowl

Motor City Bowl logo
Stadium Ford Field
Location Detroit, Michigan
Previous Stadiums Pontiac Silverdome (1997 — 2001)
Previous Locations Pontiac, Michigan (1997 — 2001)
Operated 1997 — present
Conference Tie-ins MAC, Big Ten[1]
Payout US$750,000 (2006)
Sponsors
Ford, General Motors and DaimlerChrysler
2005 Matchup
Memphis 38, Akron 31
2006 Matchup
Central Michigan 31, Middle Tennessee 14

The Motor City Bowl is a major post-season college football bowl game certified by the NCAA that has been played annually since 1997. The first five games (1997-2001) were played at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan. Starting in 2002, the game was moved to 65,000-seat Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. The game features a team from the Mid-American Conference playing one from the Big Ten Conference. If the Big Ten does not have an eligible team, the game will feature a team from the Big East that meets the requirement of at least seven wins; otherwise, an at-large team is chosen. The game is jointly sponsored by the "Big Three" automakers in Detroit: Ford, General Motors and DaimlerChrysler.

The Motor City Bowl marked the first bowl game held in the Detroit area since the Cherry Bowl in 1984-1985.

The 2006 installment, played December 26, 2006 on ESPN, matched up Central Michigan University and Middle Tennessee, because the Big Ten could not fulfill their bowl requirement. The game set a new Motor City Bowl attendance record of 54,113.

Contents

Date Winning Team Losing Team
December 26, 1997 Mississippi 34 Marshall 31
December 23, 1998 Marshall 48 Louisville 29
December 27, 1999 Marshall 21 BYU 3
December 27, 2000 Marshall 25 Cincinnati 14
December 29, 2001 Toledo 23 Cincinnati 16
December 26, 2002 Boston College 51 Toledo 25
December 26, 2003 Bowling Green 28 Northwestern 24
December 27, 2004 [2] Connecticut 39 Toledo 10
December 26, 2005 [3] Memphis 38 Akron 31
December 26, 2006 [4] Central Michigan 31 Middle Tennessee 14

Rank Team Appearances Record
1 Marshall 4 3-1
2 Toledo 3 1-2
3 Cincinnati 2 0-2

Year MVP(s) Team Position
1997 Stewart Patridge Mississippi QB
1998 Chad Pennington Marshall QB
1999 Doug Chapman Marshall RB
2000 Byron Leftwich Marshall QB
2001 Chester Taylor Toledo RB
2002 Brian St. Pierre Boston College QB
2003 Josh Harris Bowling Green QB
2004 Dan Orlovsky Connecticut QB
2005 DeAngelo Williams Memphis RB
2006 Dan LeFevour Central Michigan QB

List of college bowl games

  1. ^ If the Big Ten does not have enough bowl-eligible teams, a team from the Big East fills in.
  2. ^ Connecticut received the bid to play in this game as the Big Ten did not field enough teams to qualify for this game.
  3. ^ Memphis replaced the Big Ten and Big East teams as they did not have enough teams to qualify for this game.
  4. ^ The Big Ten did not have enough bowl-eligible teams to fulfill their obligation to qualify for this game, so Middle Tennessee filled the Big Ten's spot.


2006-07 Division I-A College football Bowl Game season
Poinsettia (Dec. 19) • Las Vegas (Dec. 21) • New Orleans (Dec. 22) • PapaJohns.com (Dec. 23) • New Mexico (Dec. 23) • Armed Forces (Dec. 23) • Hawai'i (Dec. 24) • Motor City (Dec. 26) • Emerald (Dec. 27) • Holiday (Dec. 28) • Independence (Dec. 28) • Texas (Dec. 28) • Music City (Dec. 29) • Sun (Dec. 29) • Liberty (Dec. 29) • Insight (Dec. 29) • Champs Sports (Dec. 29) • Meineke Car Care (Dec. 30) • Alamo (Dec. 30) • Chick-fil-A (Dec. 30) • MPC Computers (Dec. 31) • Outback (Jan. 1) • Cotton (Jan. 1) • Gator (Jan. 1) • Capital One (Jan. 1) • International (Jan. 6) • GMAC (Jan. 7)
Bowl Championship Series games:
Rose Bowl (Jan. 1) Fiesta Bowl (Jan. 1) Orange Bowl (Jan. 2) Sugar Bowl (Jan. 3) BCS National Championship (Jan. 8)
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)
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