GMAC Bowl

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GMAC Bowl
GMAC Bowl Logo
Stadium	Ladd Peebles Stadium
Location	Mobile, Alabama
Operated	1999-present
Conference Tie-ins	ACC, MAC
Previous Conference Tie-ins	C-USA, WAC (Alternate to the MAC)
Payout	US$750,000 (2006)
Sponsors
GMAC Financial Services (2001-present)
Former names
Mobile Alabama Bowl (1999-2000)
2009 Matchup
Tulsa vs. Ball State (Tulsa 45-13)
2010 Matchup
Central Michigan vs. Troy (January 6)

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. For the game to be played in 2010 the Atlantic Coast Conference was to participate in the bowl as its ninth bowl tie-in, replacing the Humanitarian Bowl in Boise, Idaho, in the conference's postseason lineup, but the ACC failed to have sufficient bowl-eligible teams to fill the slot.^[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, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers 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 Golden Eagles of Southern Mississippi knocked off the Ohio Bobcats, 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 Tulsa beating Bowling Green, 63–7.

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[edit] Most appearances

* Will play in the 2010 GMAC Bowl

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[edit] See also

• GMAC Bowl broadcasters

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official Website of the GMAC Bowl
• 2001 GMAC Bowl