New Orleans Bowl

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New Orleans Bowl
R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl
R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl logo
Stadium	Louisiana Superdome
Previous Stadiums	Cajun Field (2005)
Location	New Orleans, Louisiana
Previous Locations	Lafayette, Louisiana (2005)
Operated	2001 — present
Conference Tie-ins	Sun Belt, C-USA
Previous Conference Tie-ins	Mountain West (2001)
Payout	US$325,000 (2006)
Sponsors
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (2002 — 2004)
Former names
Wyndham New Orleans Bowl (2002 — 2004) New Orleans Bowl at Lafayette (2005)
2006 Matchup
Troy vs. Rice

The New Orleans Bowl is a post-season college football bowl game certified by the NCAA that has been played annually at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana from 2001 to 2004. The game was sponsored by Wyndham Hotels & Resorts from 2002 to 2004 and was officially called the Wyndham New Orleans Bowl.

The first year featured North Texas from the Sun Belt playing Colorado State from the Mountain West. It is now played between the conference champion of the Sun Belt and a team from Conference USA.

Due to damage by Hurricane Katrina to the Louisiana Superdome, where the game is usually played, the 2005 game was played on December 20 in Lafayette, Louisiana at Cajun Field on the campus of University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and was dubbed the New Orleans Bowl at Lafayette. The game returns to the Superdome on December 22, 2006, with a new corporate sponsor in freight company R+L Carriers, renaming the game the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl. The game will feature Troy, co-champions of the Sun Belt Conference facing Rice, making their first bowl game visit in 45 years, their last appearance being the 1961 Bluebonnet Bowl.

Contents 1 Previous results 2 MVPs 3 Previous logos 4 See also 5 External link

[edit] Previous results

Date Played	Winning Team		Losing Team
December 18, 2001	Colorado State	45	North Texas	20
December 17, 2002	North Texas	25	Cincinnati	19
December 16, 2003	Memphis	27	North Texas	17
December 14, 2004	Southern Mississippi	31	North Texas	10
December 20, 2005 [1]	Southern Mississippi	31	Arkansas State	19
December 22, 2006	Troy vs. Rice

1. ^ Game played in Lafayette, Louisiana at Cajun Field at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

[edit] MVPs

Date played	MVP	School	Position
December 18, 2001	Justin Gallimore	Colorado State	DB
December 17, 2002	Kevin Galbreath	North Texas	RB
December 16, 2003	Danny Wimprine	Memphis	QB
December 14, 2004	Michael Boley	Southern Miss	LB
December 20, 2005	Shawn Nelson	Southern Miss	TE

[edit] Previous logos

2005 New Orleans Bowl, played in Lafayette, Louisiana.

The logo under sponsorship of Wyndham Hotels from 2002 until 2004.

[edit] See also

List of college bowl games

[edit] External link

• Official Website of the New Orleans Bowl

2006-07 Division I-A College football Bowl Game season
Poinsettia (Dec. 19) • Las Vegas (Dec. 21) • New Orleans (Dec. 22) • PapaJohns.com (Dec. 23) • New Mexico (Dec. 23) • Armed Forces (Dec. 23) • Hawai'i (Dec. 24) • Motor City (Dec. 26) • Independence (Dec. 27) • Emerald (Dec. 27) • Holiday (Dec. 28) • Texas (Dec. 28) • Music City (Dec. 29) • Sun (Dec. 29) • Liberty (Dec. 29) • Insight (Dec. 29) • Champs Sports (Dec. 29) • Meineke Car Care (Dec. 30) • Alamo (Dec. 30) • Chick-fil-A (Dec. 30) • MPC Computers (Dec. 31) • Outback (Jan. 1) • Cotton (Jan. 1) • Gator (Jan. 1) • Capital One (Jan. 1) • International (Jan. 6) • GMAC (Jan. 7)
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)