International Bowl

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International Bowl
International Bowl logo, 2007
Stadium	Rogers Centre
Location	Toronto, Ontario
Operated	2007 — present
Conference Tie-ins	Big East, Mid-American
Payout	US$750,000 (2007)
2007 Matchup
Cincinnati 27, Western Michigan 24

The International Bowl is a NCAA college American football bowl game played in Toronto, Ontario. It is the only post-season bowl game played outside the United States, and the first since the Bacardi Bowl was played in Cuba on January 1, 1937. The inaugural game in 2007 matched up Western Michigan University with the University of Cincinnati and was televised live on ESPN2 in the United States and TSN in Canada.

Contents 1 History 2 Results 3 MVPs 4 Trivia 5 Photo gallery 5.1 2007 6 External Links

[edit] History

The first game was played on January 6, 2007 at the Rogers Centre, home to the CFL's Toronto Argonauts and the CIS Vanier Cup. In 2004, a partnership led by the City of Toronto bid to host a bowl game in Toronto to help the city recover from its loss of tourism dollars due to the 2003 SARS outbreak, but the NCAA sanctioned the new Poinsettia Bowl in San Diego instead. Toronto re-launched the bid in 2005 and was successful, playing the first game at the end of 2006 season.

The bowl signed an agreement with two Division I conferences for annual representation. The Big East Conference, a Bowl Championship Series conference, will send a fourth placed team or higher to the game, and the Mid-American Conference will also select a top team for inclusion in the event. Each conference is composed of schools in the northern states of the American Midwest, and Northeast, except for the University of South Florida.

[edit] Results

Date	Winning Team		Losing Team
January 6, 2007	Cincinnati	27	Western Michigan	24

[edit] MVPs

Date	MVP	School	Position
2007	Dominick Goodman	Cincinnati	WR

[edit] Trivia

The 2007 International Bowl was the first post-season bowl game played outside the United States since the Bacardi Bowl was played in Cuba on January 1, 1937, and the first football game of significance to be played in Canada under American football rules since Simon Fraser University's football team left the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics in 2001, and joined Canadian Interuniversity Sport, where Canadian universities play under Canadian football rules.

[edit] Photo gallery

[edit] 2007

Looking at the University of Cincinnati band from Windows restaurant.	Looking at the fifty yard line.	WMU defends against the Cincinnati shotgun.	WMU on offense.
Rogers Centre video scoreboard follows the play.	WMU band at half time.	WMU band cheers Broncos from the stands.	Concrete is exposed beyond the end zones and side lines because the field was shortened and narrowed from Canadian football to American football dimensions.

[edit] External Links

Official website of the International Bowl

2006-07 Division I-A College football Bowl Game season
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