GMAC Bowl

The GMAC Bowl is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division 1-A college football bowl game that has been played annually at 40,646-seat Ladd Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama, since 1999. It pits the a Conference USA team (home team) against a team from either the Mid-American Conference or the Western Athletic Conference (away team). The game was previously known as the Mobile Alabama Bowl from 1999 to 2000 until it received corporate sponsorship from GMAC Financial Services, a unit of General Motors.

The game will be 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. In the 2007 game, the Ohio Bobcats (representing the MAC) and the University of Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles (representing Conference USA) will square off in a game nationally televised by ESPN at 8:00 p.m.

[edit] Previous results

Date Played	Winning Team		Losing Team
December 22, 1999	TCU	28	East Carolina	14
December 20, 2000	Southern Mississippi	28	TCU	21
December 19, 2001	Marshall	64	East Carolina	61 (2 OT)
December 18, 2002	Marshall	38	Louisville	15
December 18, 2003	Miami (Ohio)	49	Louisville	28
December 22, 2004	Bowling Green	52	Memphis	35
December 21, 2005	Toledo	45	UTEP	13
January 7, 2007	Southern Mississippi vs. Ohio

Date played	MVP	School	Position
December 22, 1999	Casey Printers	TCU	QB
December 20, 2000	LaDainian Tomlinson	TCU	RB
December 19, 2001	Byron Leftwich	Marshall	QB
December 18, 2002	Byron Leftwich	Marshall	QB
December 18, 2003	Ben Roethlisberger	Miami (OH)	QB
December 22, 2004	Omar Jacobs	Bowling Green	QB
December 21, 2005	Bruce Gradkowski	Toledo	QB

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Bowl Championship Series games:

Rose Bowl (Jan. 1)

Fiesta Bowl (Jan. 1)

Orange Bowl (Jan. 2)

Sugar Bowl (Jan. 3)

BCS National Championship (Jan. 8)

All-Star Games: North-South All-Star Classic (Jan. 13) • Hula Bowl (Jan. 14) • Las Vegas All-American Classic (Jan. 15) • East-West Shrine Game (Jan. 20) • Senior Bowl (Jan. 27) • Texas vs. The Nation Game (Feb. 2)