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GMAC Bowl Wiki Information
The GMAC Bowl
is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I Football Bowl Subdivision college football bowl game that has been played annually at Ladd Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama since 1999. From 1999 to 2009, it pitted a Conference USA team (home team) against a team from either the Mid-American Conference or the Western Athletic Conference. Starting 2010 the Atlantic Coast Conference will play in the bowl as its ninth bowl tie-in, if a team is eligible, replacing the Humanitarian Bowl in Boise, Idaho, in the conference's postseason lineup. [1] The Mid-American Conference is the other conference tie-in. [2] The game was previously known as the Mobile Alabama Bowl
from 1999 to 2000 until it received corporate sponsorship from GMAC Financial Services, formerly a unit of General Motors.
The 2001 game between the Marshall Thundering Herd and East Carolina Pirates set the record as the highest scoring bowl game of all time, and Marshall achieved what was then the greatest scoring comeback in Bowl history. [3] In this contest, Marshall battled back from a 38–8 deficit to win 64–61 in double overtime. Thundering Herd quarterback Byron Leftwich, later of the Jacksonville Jaguars, Atlanta Falcons, and Pittsburgh Steelers, threw for 576 yards in the game.
The 2007 edition of the game was played on January 7, 2007, making it the next-to-last bowl game in the 2006–07 bowl season prior to the BCS National Championship Game the following night. The knocked off the , 28–7. The 2008 edition of the contest took place the night before the BCS National Championship Game once again on Sunday, January 6, 2008. The game became the largest blowout in bowl history, with beating Bowling Green, 63–7.
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GMAC BOWL TICKETS
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Previous results
| Title
| Date
| Winning team
| Losing team
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| 1999 Mobile Alabama Bowl
| December 22, 1999
| TCU
| 28
| East Carolina
| 14
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| 2000 GMAC Mobile Alabama Bowl
| December 20, 2000
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| 28
| TCU
| 21
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| 2001 GMAC Bowl
| December 19, 2001
| Marshall
| 64
| East Carolina
| 61 (2 OT)
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| 2002 GMAC Bowl
| December 18, 2002
| Marshall
| 38
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| 15
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| 2003 GMAC Bowl
| December 18, 2003
| Miami (Ohio)
| 49
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| 28
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| 2004 GMAC Bowl
| December 22, 2004
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| 52
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| 35
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| 2005 GMAC Bowl
| December 21, 2005
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| 45
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| 13
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| 2007 GMAC Bowl
| January 7, 2007
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| 28
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| 7
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| 2008 GMAC Bowl
| January 6, 2008
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| 63
| Bowling Green
| 7
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| 2009 GMAC Bowl
| January 6, 2009
| Tulsa
| 45
| Ball State
| 13
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Most appearances
| Rank
| Team
| Appearances
| Record
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| T1
| Marshall
| 2
| 2–0
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| T1
| Southern Mississippi
| 2
| 2–0
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| T1
| Tulsa
| 2
| 2–0
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| T1
| Bowling Green
| 2
| 1–1
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| T1
| TCU
| 2
| 1–1
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| T1
| East Carolina
| 2
| 0–2
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| T1
| Louisville
| 2
| 0–2
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| T8
| Miami (Ohio)
| 1
| 1–0
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| T8
| Toledo
| 1
| 1–0
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| T8
| Ball State
| 1
| 0–1
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| T8
| Memphis
| 1
| 0–1
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| T8
| Ohio
| 1
| 0–1
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| T8
| UTEP
| 1
| 0–1
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MVPs
| Date played
| MVP
| School
| Position
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| December 22, 1999
| Casey Printers
| TCU
| QB
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| December 20, 2000
| LaDainian Tomlinson
| TCU
| RB
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| December 19, 2001
| Byron Leftwich
| Marshall
| QB
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| December 18, 2002
| Byron Leftwich
| Marshall
| QB
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| December 18, 2003
| Ben Roethlisberger
| Miami (OH)
| QB
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| December 22, 2004
| Omar Jacobs
| Bowling Green
| QB
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| December 21, 2005
| Bruce Gradkowski
| Toledo
| QB
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| January 7, 2007
| Damion Fletcher
| Southern Miss
| RB
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| January 6, 2008
| Paul Smith
| Tulsa
| QB
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| January 6, 2009
| Tarrion Adams
| Tulsa
| RB
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See also
References
- http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/05/08/article/acc_adds_gmac_bowl_to_its_postseason_lineup
- http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/college/orl-sportscollege-football-bowls-7050709may07,0,731596
- CNNSI.com - 2001 College Bowls - GMAC Bowl - Marshall edges ECU 64-61 in wild GMAC Bowl - Friday December 21, 2001 02:25 AM
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