Armed Forces Bowl

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Armed Forces Bowl
Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl
Armed Forces Bowl logo
Stadium	Amon G. Carter Stadium
Location	Fort Worth, Texas
Operated	2003 — present
Conference Tie-ins	Conference USA and Pac-10 (alternating years), MWC
Previous Conference Tie-ins	Big 12 (2003 — 2006)
Payout	US$600,000 (2006)
Sponsors
PlainsCapital Bank (2003 — 2004) Bell Helicopter (2006 — present)
Former names
Plainscapital Bank Fort Worth Bowl (2003 — 2004) Fort Worth Bowl (2005)
2006 Matchup
Utah vs. Tulsa

The Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl is an annual postseason college football bowl game that was inaugurated in 2003 as the Fort Worth Bowl under corporate sponsorship of PlainsCapital Bank. In 2005, the game was without corporate sponsorship. The game is played in the 46,000-seat Amon G. Carter Stadium on the campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, featuring a team from Mountain West Conference. The bowl's partnership with the Big 12 Conference ended with the 2005 season; in 2006 and 2008 the game will feature a team from Conference USA against a team from the MWC. The Pac-10 will send a team to play the MWC in 2007 and 2009.

For a brief period in 2006, this game was called the Alltel Wireless Bowl, until the sponsorship deal with Alltel fell through.

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

[edit] Previous results

Date Played	Winning Team		Losing Team
December 23, 2003	Boise State [1]	34	TCU	31
December 23, 2004	Cincinnati	32	Marshall [1]	14
December 23, 2005	Kansas	42	Houston	13
December 23, 2006	Utah	25	Tulsa	13

1. ^ ^{a b} Received a bid because the Big 12 did not have enough bowl-eligible teams to fill all of its allotted bowl slots.

[edit] MVPs

Date played	MVP	Team	Position
December 23, 2003	Ryan Dinwiddie	Boise State	QB
December 23, 2004	Gino Guidugli	Cincinnati	QB
December 23, 2005	Jason Swanson	Kansas	QB
December 23, 2006	Louie Sakoda	Utah	P/K

[edit] Previous logos

2003-2005 Fort Worth Bowl logo

[edit] See also

• List of college bowl games

[edit] External links

1. ^ ^{a b} Received a bid because the Big 12 did not have enough bowl-eligible teams to fill all of its allotted bowl slots.

• Official Web site of the Armed Forces 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) • Emerald (Dec. 27) • Holiday (Dec. 28) • Independence (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)