Boca Raton Bowl

Boca Raton Bowl
Stadium FAU Stadium
Location Boca Raton, Florida
Operated 2014–present
Conference tie-ins Mid-American Conference, American Athletic Conference
Previous conference tie-ins Conference USA (2014)
Payout US$400,000 (as of 2015)[1]
Sponsors
Marmot (2015)
Former names
Boca Raton Bowl (2014)
Marmot Boca Raton Bowl (2015)
2016 matchup
Memphis vs. Western Kentucky (WKU 51–31)
2017 matchup
TBD (December 19, 2017)

The Boca Raton Bowl is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sanctioned Division I college football bowl game[2] played in Boca Raton, Florida at FAU Stadium, which is located on the campus of Florida Atlantic University. The bowl was founded on October 10, 2013, and was first played as part of the 2014 schedule of postseason bowl games.[3] The bowl game will be televised by ESPN.[2][4]

The Mid-American Conference (MAC) is scheduled to be the primary conference involved in the Boca Raton Bowl until 2019.[4] The Northern Illinois Huskies, winners of the conference's championship game, were chosen as the conference's first representative. Conference USA was contracted to provide a team for the 2014 playing and the conference sent its champion, the Marshall Thundering Herd. Both the MAC and C-USA did not have automatic bowl bids for their champions entering 2014; C-USA lost its contract with the Liberty Bowl while the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl, which usually took the MAC champion, was discontinued after its 2013 playing and the GoDaddy Bowl, which takes a MAC team and has the option to take the conference champion if it desires, elected to take Toledo instead.

The American Athletic Conference is to provide a team to the Boca Raton Bowl in 2015.[4] Other NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision conferences are expected to send teams to the bowl in alternating years after that,[4] but these have yet to be announced.

The bowl game is owned and operated by ESPN Events, and is televised by ESPN as part of its annual "Bowl Week".[2] On October 6, 2015, Marmot was announced as the title sponsor of the game.[5]

Game results

Date Winning Team Losing Team Attendance Notes
December 23, 2014 Marshall 52 Northern Illinois 23 29,419 notes
December 22, 2015 Toledo 32 Temple 17 25,908 notes
December 20, 2016 Western Kentucky 51 Memphis 31 24,726 notes

MVPs

Year Offensive MVP Defensive MVP
Player Team Pos.Player Team Pos.
2014 Rakeem Cato Marshall QB None N/A N/A
2015 Phillip Ely Toledo QB Ju'Wan Woodley Toledo LB
2016 Anthony Wales Western Kentucky RB Keith Brown Western Kentucky LB

Most appearances

Rank Team Appearances Record
T1 Marshall 1 1–0
T1 Toledo 1 1–0
T1 Western Kentucky 1 1–0
T1 Memphis 1 0–1
T1 Northern Illinois 1 0–1
T1 Temple 1 0–1

Record by conference

Conference Wins Losses Pct.
Conference USA 2 0 1.000
MAC 1 1 .500
The American 0 2 .000

Media coverage

Television

Date Network Play-by-play announcers Color commentators Sideline reporters
2016 ESPN Dave LaMont Desmond Howard Quint Kessenich
2015 ESPN Allen Bestwick Dan Hawkins
2014 ESPN Dave LaMont Desmond Howard Quint Kessenich

Radio

Date Network Play-by-play announcers Color commentators Sideline reporters
2016 ESPN Radio Marc Kestecher John Congemi Brett McMurphy
2015 ESPN Radio Dave LaMont John Congemi
2014 ESPN Radio Marc Kestecher John Congemi

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.statisticbrain.com/college-bowl-game-payouts/
  2. 1 2 3 Drew, David (May 14, 2014). "Dates and times set for inaugural MAC football-affiliated Boca Raton Bowl, Bahamas Bowl". mlive.com. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
  3. ↑ "MAC Announces The Creation Of The Boca Raton Bowl". Mac-sports.com. October 11, 2013. Retrieved November 7, 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Ellis, Zac (October 11, 2013). "MAC announces creation of Boca Raton Bowl in 2014". College-football.si.com. Retrieved November 7, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Marmot Becomes Title Sponsor of Boca Raton Bowl". ESPN Events. 6 October 2015.
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