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St. Petersburg Bowl Wiki Information
The magicJack St. Petersburg Bowl
is a NCAA Division I FBS college football bowl game that made its debut in 2008 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, the home of Major League Baseball's Tampa Bay Rays, and featured teams from the Big East Conference and Conference USA. In the event one of the conferences would not have enough teams bowl eligible, the Sun Belt Conference, provided they have enough teams eligible, are eligible to send a team in 2008 and 2009. The NCAA's Postseason Football Licensing Subcommittee approved the bowl on April 30, 2008, along with the Washington, DC-based EagleBank Bowl, allowing the committee that had proposed the game to host it after the 2008 college football season, [1] and will be played on December 20 of that year with a telecast on ESPN2, of which a division of ESPN, ESPN Plus (a/k/a "ESPN Regional Television") is the game's owner with kickoff scheduled to be at 4:30 PM US EST. On November 25, 2008, ESPN Regional Television announced a one-year title sponsorship agreement with magicJack. [2]
Since "The Trop" was originally designed for baseball, the football gridiron is arranged along the right field line, from home plate to the foul pole. If the new Rays Ballpark is approved and built on the site of Progress Energy Park (née Al Lang Stadium), the game will move there as well. [3] The game will be the second to take place in a baseball-only stadium among current post-season football contests; the other is the Emerald Bowl at San Francisco's AT&T Park, the home of the San Francisco Giants. Between 2000 and 2005, the Insight Bowl was played at the home of the Arizona Diamondbacks, Chase Field (née Bank One Ballpark) in Phoenix, Arizona after being moved from Tucson, while the 2001 Seattle Bowl was played at Safeco Field while Qwest Field was being built on the site of the Kingdome. Original plans had the EagleBank Bowl in Washington being played at Nationals Park, but the game will be played at RFK Stadium instead.
The inaugural game was played on Dec 20, 2008, between the South Florida Bulls and Memphis Tigers, with the USF Bulls winning by a score of 41-14. USF Quarterback Matt Grothe was named Most Outstanding Player, after throwing for 236 yards and three touchdowns and rushing for 83 yards on 15 carries.
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ST. PETERSBURG BOWL TICKETS
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Previous results
Date Played
| Winning Team
| Losing Team
| notes
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December 20, 2008
| South Florida
| 41
| Memphis
| 14
| notes
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MVPs
Year
| MVP(s)
| Team
| Position
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2008
| Matt Grothe
| USF
| QB
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Most Appearances
Rank
| Team
| Appearances
| Record
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T1
| South Florida
| 1
| 1-0
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T1
| Memphis
| 1
| 0-1
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References
- NCAA committee approves 34 football bowl games The Associated Press, ESPN.com. April 30, 2008. Accessed April 30, 2008.
- "No longer St. Pete Bowl" from ''Tampa Tribune'', 2008-11-25, retrieved 2008-12-02
- "NCAA approves St. Petersburg Bowl" from ''St. Petersburg Times'', 2008-05-01, retrieved 2008-05-12
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