Humanitarian Bowl
Roady's Truck Stops Humanitarian Bowl
Humanitarian Bowl Logo
Stadium	Bronco Stadium
Location	Boise, Idaho
Operated	1997-present
Conference Tie-ins	WAC, MWC
Previous Conference Tie-ins	Big West,C-USA, ACC
Payout	US$750,000 (As of 2008[update])
Sponsors
Crucial.com (1999-2002) MPC Computers (Dec. 2004-2006)
Former names
Humanitarian Bowl (1997-1998) Crucial.com Humanitarian Bowl (1999- 2002) Humanitarian Bowl (Jan. 2004) MPC Computers Bowl (Dec. 2004-2006)
2008 Matchup
Maryland vs. Nevada (MD 42-35)
2009 Matchup
MWC vs. WAC (December 30)

The Humanitarian Bowl is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I FBS college football bowl game that has been played annually at 33,000-seat Bronco Stadium on the campus of Boise State University in Boise, Idaho, since 1997. The game currently matches a team from the Mountain West Conference with one from the Western Athletic Conference, typically the conference champion. The MWC replaces the Atlantic Coast Conference, which did not renew its contract past the 2008 game.

For its first four years the Humanitarian Bowl offered an automatic bid to the Big West Conference champion after that conference lost its contract with the Las Vegas Bowl. From 1997–99 the opponent was a team from Conference USA, while in 2000 an at-large was chosen. After the 2000 Humanitarian Bowl, the Big West Conference stopped sponsoring football and the automatic bid instead went to the WAC where it remains to this day.

The game was sponsored by Micron Technology, an Idaho-based manufacturer, from 1999 to 2002 under the name Crucial.com, which sells computer memory upgrades from Micron. The bowl game then briefly had no sponsor for the January 2004 game. In December 2004, the name was changed to the MPC Computers Bowl. MPC Computers was formerly MicronPC, the computer manufacturing division of Micron, but split from Micron and has no affiliation with Micron. In April 2007, it was announced that the bowl will again be called the Humanitarian Bowl. ^[1] In May 2007, a new bowl sponsor was announced, Roady's Truck Stops. The bowl's name is now the Roady's Humanitarian Bowl. ^[2]

It is the longest running cold weather bowl game currently in operation. The payout is $750,000, but teams are required to provide a corporate sponsor, purchase a minimum number of tickets, and stay at a selected hotel for a minimum stay. Because of this, 7–4 UCLA declined an invitation to the Humanitarian Bowl in 2001. ^[3]

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[edit] See also

• Humanitarian Bowl broadcasters

[edit] External links

• Official website of the Roady's Humanitarian Bowl

[edit] Notes

1. ^ http://www.idahostatesman.com/104/story/80015.html
2. ^ http://www.idahostatesman.com/newsupdates/story/86390.html
3. ^ UCLA Addresses Bowl Situation - Statement from UCLA athletic director Peter Dalis