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16th Birmingham Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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Date | December 27, 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
Season | 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stadium | Protective Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | Birmingham, Alabama | ||||||||||||||||||
MVP | Holton Ahlers (QB, East Carolina) [1] | ||||||||||||||||||
Favorite | East Carolina by 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
Referee | Tuta Salaam (Big 12) [2] | ||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 15,901 | ||||||||||||||||||
Payout | US$1,374,545 [3] | ||||||||||||||||||
United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
Announcers | Tiffany Greene (play-by-play), Jay Walker (analyst), and Jalyn Johnson (sideline) | ||||||||||||||||||
International TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
Network | ESPN Deportes | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2022 Birmingham Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 27, 2022, at Protective Stadium in Birmingham, Alabama. The 16th annual Birmingham Bowl, the game featured Coastal Carolina of the Sun Belt Conference and East Carolina of the American Athletic Conference. The game began at 5:50 p.m. CST [4] and was aired on ESPN. [5] It was one of the 2022–23 bowl games concluding the 2022 FBS football season. Sponsored by ticket sales company TicketSmarter, the game was officially known as the TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl.
This was the first time that Coastal Carolina and East Carolina faced each other. [6]
Coastal Carolina compiled a 9–2 regular season record, 6–2 in conference play. They had a non-conference game against Virginia canceled. The Chanticleers qualified for the Sun Belt Conference Championship Game, which they lost to Troy, thus entered the bowl with a 9–3 overall record. Coastal Carolina did not face any ranked opponents during the season.
East Carolina played to a 7–5 regular-season record, 4–4 in conference play. They faced one ranked opponent during the season, losing to NC State in their first game. The Pirates played in, and lost, the January 2015 edition of the Birmingham Bowl. They also played in, and lost, the December 2006 edition of the game, when it was known as the PapaJohns.com Bowl. They played in the 2022 Birmingham Bowl and defeated Coastal Carolina University, securing their first bowl victory since 2013.
The officials for the game were from the Big 12 Conference and were:
Referee: Tutashinda Salaam
Umpire: Sheldon Davis
Head Line Judge: Bradford Edwards
Line Judge: David Young
Field Judge: Ed Vinzant
Side Judge: Rick Ockey
Back Judge: Joel Wetzel
Center Judge: Darren Winkley
Alternate: Marvel July
Replay Official: Dee Anderson
Communicator: Terry Porter [7]
Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Coastal Carolina | 0 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 29 |
East Carolina | 10 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 53 |
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