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This article is about the NCAA Alamo Bowl college football game that began in 1993. For the 1947 college football game that had the same name, see Alamo Bowl (1947).
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.
[edit] HistoryThe 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 now-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 Iowa Hawkeyes 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 Colorado and Wisconsin 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 Michigan 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] [edit] Media coverageMain article: Alamo Bowl broadcasters 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] [edit] Game results
†Rankings reflect rank at time of bowl game and taken from AP Top 25 poll [edit] MVPs
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* Will play in the 2010 Alamo Bowl [edit] References
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