2007 Motor City Bowl - Misplaced Pages

The 2007 Motor City Bowl, part of the 2007-08 NCAA football bowl games season, occurred on December 26, 2007 at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

The Central Michigan Chippewas, who won their second straight Mid-American Conference championship on the same field on December 1, returned to take on the Purdue Boilermakers, whom bowl officials invited from the Big Ten Conference. The bowl was a rematch of a game played on September 15 in West Lafayette, Indiana. The Boilermakers won that game, 45–22. CMU had defeated Middle Tennessee in the 2006 game.

Purdue dominated the first half of the game, scoring 3 touchdowns in the first quarter to Central's 2 field goals, and by halftime they had assured a 21-point lead over the Chippewas. Central came back in the third quarter, scoring 4 touchdowns to tie the game. The final score was 51–48, with Purdue kicker Chris Summers kicking a game-winning field goal as time expired. Purdue quarterback Curtis Painter threw for 543 pass yards, setting a Motor City Bowl record and placing him fourth on the list of all-time bowl game performances. His total broke the Purdue school record.

The attendance of 60,624 broke the Motor City Bowl record, which had been set in 2006 by Central Michigan and Middle Tennessee (54,113).

References

World Feature Syndicate via Long Beach Press-Telegram, Dec. 20, 2007
"20080128234 | Motor City Bowl Scores Ratings Increase | Football". Archived from the original on January 30, 2008. Retrieved January 28, 2008.
"ncaafootball.com - Bowl Schedules/Results". Archived from the original on August 3, 2007. Retrieved September 19, 2009.
"motorcitybowl.com: Year-by-Year Results". Archived from the original on April 15, 2008. Retrieved January 28, 2008.

v t e 2007–08 NCAA football bowl game season
Poinsettia (Dec. 20) New Orleans (Dec. 21) PapaJohns.com (Dec. 22) New Mexico (Dec. 22) Las Vegas (Dec. 22) Hawaii (Dec. 23) Motor City (Dec. 26) Holiday (Dec. 27) Emerald (Dec. 28) Texas (Dec. 28) Champs Sports (Dec. 28) Meineke Car Care (Dec. 29) Alamo (Dec. 29) Liberty (Dec. 29) Independence (Dec. 30) Music City (Dec. 31) Sun (Dec. 31) Insight (Dec. 31) Chick-fil-A (Dec. 31) Humanitarian (Dec. 31) Armed Forces (Dec. 31) Outback (Jan. 1) Cotton (Jan. 1) Gator (Jan. 1) Capital One (Jan. 1) International (Jan. 5) GMAC (Jan. 6)
Bowl Championship Series games: Rose Bowl (Jan. 1) Sugar Bowl (Jan. 1) Fiesta Bowl (Jan. 2) Orange Bowl (Jan. 3) BCS National Championship (Jan. 7)
All-Star Games: Hula Bowl (Jan. 12) East–West Shrine Game (Jan. 19) Senior Bowl (Jan. 26) Texas vs. The Nation Game (Feb. 2)

v t e Motor City / Little Caesars Pizza Bowl
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v t e Central Michigan Chippewas bowl games
1974 Pioneer Bowl 1990 California Bowl 1994 Las Vegas Bowl 2006 Motor City Bowl 2007 Motor City Bowl 2008 Motor City Bowl 2010 GMAC Bowl 2012 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl 2014 Bahamas Bowl 2015 Quick Lane Bowl 2016 Miami Beach Bowl 2017 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl 2019 New Mexico Bowl 2021 Sun Bowl

v t e Purdue Boilermakers bowl games
1967 Rose Bowl 1978 Peach Bowl 1979 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl 1980 Liberty Bowl 1984 Peach Bowl 1997 Alamo Bowl 1998 Alamo Bowl 2000 Outback Bowl 2001 Rose Bowl 2001 Sun Bowl 2002 Sun Bowl 2004 Capital One Bowl 2004 Sun Bowl 2006 Champs Sports Bowl 2007 Motor City Bowl 2011 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl 2013 Heart of Dallas Bowl 2017 Foster Farms Bowl 2018 Music City Bowl 2021 Music City Bowl 2023 Citrus Bowl

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