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The Motor City Bowl is a post-season college football bowl game certified by the NCAA that has been played annually since 1997. The first five games (1997-2001) were played at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan. Starting in 2002, the game was moved to 65,000-seat Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. The game features the champion from the Mid-American Conference playing one from the Big Ten Conference. If the Big Ten doesn't have an eligible team, the game will feature a team from the Big East that meets the requirement of at least seven wins; otherwise, an at-large team is chosen. The game is jointly sponsored by the "Big Three" automakers in Detroit: Ford, General Motors and Chrysler.
The Motor City Bowl marked the first bowl game held in the Detroit area since the Cherry Bowl in 1984-1985.

The most recent installment, played December 26, 2007 on ESPN, matched up Central Michigan University and Purdue. After a one-sided first half in the Boilermakers favor, CMU came back to tie the game late in the fourth quarter. Purdue kicked a field goal as time expired to win. A bowl record crowd of 60,624 fans witnessed the exciting finish to the 11th Motor City Bowl.	Image:Mcb5forweb2.jpg

Bowl matchups and results

Date	Winning Team		Losing Team		ttendance	Notes
December 26, 1997	Mississippi	34	Marshall	31	43,340
December 23, 1998	Marshall	48	Louisville	29	38,016
December 27, 1999	Marshall	21	BYU	3	44,449
December 27, 2000	Marshall	25	Cincinnati	14	44,911
December 29, 2001	Toledo	23	Cincinnati	16	44,164
December 26, 2002	Boston College	51	Toledo	25	45,761
December 26, 2003	Bowling Green	28	Northwestern	24	51,286
December 27, 2004	Connecticut	39	Toledo	10	52,552
December 26, 2005	Memphis	38	Akron	31	45,801
December 26, 2006	Central Michigan	31	Middle Tennessee	14	54,113
December 26, 2007	Purdue	51	Central Michigan	48	60,624	notes

MVPs

Year	MVP(s)	Team	Position
1997	Stewart Patridge	Mississippi	QB
1998	Chad Pennington	Marshall	QB
1999	Doug Chapman	Marshall	RB
2000	Byron Leftwich	Marshall	QB
2001	Chester Taylor	Toledo	RB
2002	Brian St. Pierre	Boston College	QB
2003	Josh Harris	Bowling Green	QB
2003	Jason Wright	Northwestern	RB
2004	Dan Orlovsky	Connecticut	QB
2005	DeAngelo Williams	Memphis	RB
2006	Dan LeFevour	Central Michigan	QB
2007	Curtis Painter	Purdue	QB

Most appearances

Rank	Team	Appearances	Record
1	Marshall	4	3-1
2	Toledo	3	1-2
3	Central Michigan	2	1-1
3	Cincinnati	2	0-2

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