2008 GMAC Bowl

2008 GMAC Bowl
Bowling Green Falcons Tulsa Golden Hurricane (8–4) (9–4) MAC C-USA 7 63 Head coach:  Gregg Brandon Head coach:  Todd Graham
1 2 3 4 Total Bowling Green 0 0 7 0 7 Tulsa 21 14 14 14 63
Date	January 6, 2008
Season	2007
Stadium	Ladd–Peebles Stadium
Location	Mobile, Alabama
Favorite	Tulsa by 4½ [1]
Attendance	36,932
Payout	US$750,000 per team [2]
United States TV coverage
Network	ESPN
Announcers	Rece Davis, Mark May, Lou Holtz, & Rob Stone
GMAC Bowl  < 2007   2009 >

The 2008 GMAC Bowl was an American college football bowl game. It was part of the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season and was the ninth annual playing of the game. It was played on January 6, 2008, at Ladd–Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama, and featured the Bowling Green Falcons against the Tulsa Golden Hurricane.

Notes

• Tulsa quarterback Paul Smith set an NCAA Division I record with his 14th consecutive 300-yard passing game. ^[3]
• The 63–7 final score made this game the largest margin of victory in bowl history at the time, surpassing the 55-point margin set by Alabama over Syracuse in the 1953 Orange Bowl. ^[3] The record was tied a decade later, when Army defeated Houston 70–14 in the 2018 Armed Forces Bowl. The record was tied again in 2023 when LSU defeated Purdue 63-7 in the Cheez It Citrus Bowl. This record would go on to be broken in the 2023 National Championship game, where Georgia would defeat TCU by a final score of 65–7. ^[4]
• The game represented just the second matchup of the two teams in football. In 1989, Tulsa also beat Bowling Green in blowout fashion, 45–10.

References

1. Fox, David (December 13, 2007). "Rivals.com Bowl Viewer's Guide". Rivals.com. Archived from the original on December 15, 2007. Retrieved December 17, 2007.
2. "ncaafootball.com - Bowl Schedules/Results". Archived from the original on August 3, 2007. Retrieved September 19, 2009.
3. Associated Press (January 6, 2008). "Smith's 14th straight 300-yard game leads Tulsa past Bowling Green". ESPN.com. Archived from the original on January 10, 2008. Retrieved January 7, 2008.
4. "Georgia blasts TCU 65-7 in the College Football Playoff championship game, wins back-to-back titles". NCAA.com. January 9, 2023. Retrieved January 10, 2023.

External links

• ESPN summary