MUSIC CITY BOWL

The 'Music City Bowl' is a post-season American college football bowl game certified by the NCAA that has been played in Nashville, Tennessee, since 1998. The first game was at Vanderbilt Stadium. Beginning in 1999, the game has been played at LP Field, home of the Tennessee Titans. Beginning in 2002, the game became known as the 'Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl'. In 2003, Bridgestone became the presenting sponsor of the game, and its full title became the 'Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl presented by Bridgestone'. Both sponsors are based in Nashville. The game initially featured a matchup between representatives of the Southeastern Conference and the Big East Conference, but the Big East was replaced by the Big Ten Conference effective in 2002. Beginning with the 2006 game, the Big Ten Conference will be replaced by the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Previous sponsors of the bowl game have included American General Life & Accident (now a subsidiary of AIG) in the inaugural 1998 game, and the now-defunct "homepoint.com" in the 1999 game. There was no sponsor in 2000 and 2001.

Contents

Previous results

MVPs

Trivia

See also

External links

Previous results

Date Played	Winning Team		Losing Team
December 29, 1998	'Virginia Tech'	'38'	Alabama	7
December 29, 1999	'Syracuse'	'20'	Kentucky	13
December 28, 2000	'West Virginia'	'49'	Mississippi	38
December 28, 2001	'Boston College'	'20'	Georgia	16
December 30, 2002	'Minnesota'	'29'	Arkansas	14
December 31, 2003	'Auburn'	'28'	Wisconsin	14
December 31, 2004	'Minnesota'	'20'	Alabama	16
December 30, 2005 [1]	'Virginia'	'34'	Minnesota	31
December 29, 2006	'Kentucky'	'28'	Clemson	20

1. Virginia from the ACC replaced the SEC team, as that conference did not have enough teams with six wins for qualifying to a bowl game.

MVPs

Date played	MVP	Team	Position
December 29, 1998	Corey Moore	Virginia Tech	DE
December 29, 1999	James Mungro	Syracuse	RB
December 29, 2000	Brad Lewis	West Virginia	QB
December 28, 2001	William Green	Boston College	RB
December 30, 2002	Dan Nystrom	Minnesota	K
December 31, 2003	Jason Campbell	Auburn	QB
December 31, 2004	Marion Barber	Minnesota	RB
December 30, 2005	Marques Hagans	Virginia	QB
December 29, 2006	Andre' Woodson	Kentucky	QB

Trivia

The Music City Bowl has a history of upsets. Underdogs have won the game 6 out of the 8 times it has been played. The biggest underdog win was when Kentucky (+10) defeated Clemson 28-20 in 2006. Other big upsets include Minnesota (+7) defeating Arkansas 29-14 in 2002 and Virginia (+6) defeating Minnesota 34-31 in 2005. Boston College was a 4 point underdog when they defeated Georgia 20-16 in 2001, West Virginia was a 3 point underdog when they beat Mississippi in 2000, Syracuse was a 3 point underdog when they defeated Kentucky in 1999 and Minnesota was a 1 point underdog when they beat Alabama in 2004. The only favored teams to have won the Music City Bowl are Auburn (-3) over Wisconsin in 2003 and Virginia Tech (-5) over Alabama in the first Music City Bowl in 1998.
Minnesota has the most Music City Bowl appearances (3) followed by Alabama and Kentucky at 2 each.

See also

List of college bowl games

External links

★ Official Website of the Music City Bowl

★ The Razorback Legacy - 2002 Music City Bowl (Arkansas vs Minnesota) photos