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Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Wiki Information
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. 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 declined an invitation to the Humanitarian Bowl in 2001. [3]
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FAMOUS IDAHO POTATO BOWL TICKETS
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Previous results
Date Played
| Winning Team
| Losing Team
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December 29, 1997
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| 35
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| 19
| notes
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December 30, 1998
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| 42
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| 35
| notes
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December 30, 1999
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| 34
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| 31
| notes
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December 28, 2000
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| 38
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| 23
| notes
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December 31, 2001
| Clemson
| 49
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| 24
| notes
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December 31, 2002
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| 34
| Iowa State
| 16
| notes
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January 3, 2004
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| 52
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| 10
| notes
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December 27, 2004
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| 37
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| 34 (OT)
| notes
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December 28, 2005
| Boston College
| 27
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| 21
| notes
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December 31, 2006
| Miami
| 21
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| 20
| notes
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December 31, 2007
| Fresno State
| 40
| Georgia Tech
| 28
| notes
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December 30, 2008
| Maryland
| 42
| Nevada
| 35
| notes
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MVPs
Date played
| MVPs
| School
| Position
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December 29, 1997
| Steve Smith
| Utah State
| WR
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Chad Plummer
| Cincinnati
| QB
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December 30, 1998
| Lee Roberts
| Southern Miss
| QB
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John Welsh
| Idaho
| QB
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December 30, 1999
| Brock Forsey
| Boise State
| RB
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Chris Redman
| Louisville
| QB
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December 28, 2000
| Bart Hendricks
| Boise State
| QB
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Chris Porter
| UTEP
| RB
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December 31, 2001
| Woodrow Dantzler
| Clemson
| QB
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Delwyn Daigre
| Louisiana Tech
| WR
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December 31, 2002
| Bobby Hammer
| Boise State
| DT
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Anthony Forrest
| Iowa State
| DB
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January 3, 2004
| P.J. Daniels
| Georgia Tech
| RB
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Cort Moffitt
| Tulsa
| P
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December 27, 2004
| Paul Pinegar
| Fresno State
| QB
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Marques Hagans
| Virginia
| QB
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December 28, 2005
| Matt Ryan
| Boston College
| QB
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Jared Zabransky
| Boise State
| QB
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December 31, 2006
| Kirby Freeman
| Miami
| QB
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Jeff Rowe
| Nevada
| QB
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December 31, 2007
| Tom Brandstater
| Fresno State
| QB
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Jonathan Dwyer
| Georgia Tech
| RB
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December 30, 2008
| Da'Rel Scott
| Maryland
| RB
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Colin Kaepernick
| Nevada
| QB
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Most appearances
Rank
| Team
| Appearances
| Record
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1
| Boise State
| 4
| 3-1
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T2
| Fresno State
| 2
| 2-0
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T2
| Georgia Tech
| 2
| 1-1
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T2
| Nevada
| 2
| 0-2
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T5
| Boston College
| 1
| 1-0
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T5
| Cincinnati
| 1
| 1-0
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T5
| Clemson
| 1
| 1-0
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T5
| Idaho
| 1
| 1-0
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T5
| Maryland
| 1
| 1-0
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T5
| Miami
| 1
| 1-0
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T5
| Iowa State
| 1
| 0-1
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T5
| Louisiana Tech
| 1
| 0-1
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T5
| Louisville
| 1
| 0-1
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T5
| Southern Mississippi
| 1
| 0-1
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T5
| Tulsa
| 1
| 0-1
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T5
| Utah State
| 1
| 0-1
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T5
| UTEP
| 1
| 0-1
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T5
| Virginia
| 1
| 0-1
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See also
- Humanitarian Bowl broadcasters
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