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College football game

2008 Motor City Bowl

Florida Atlantic Owls	Central Michigan Chippewas
(6–6)	(8–4)
Sun Belt	MAC
24	21
Head coach: Howard Schnellenberger	Head coach: Butch Jones

	1	2	3	4	Total
Florida Atlantic	7	3	7	7	24
Central Michigan	0	10	3	8	21

Date

December 26, 2008

Season

Stadium

Location

MVP

CMU by 7

Tom Walker (Big 12)

Attendance

41,399

Payout

US$750,000

United States TV coverage

2.1

Motor City Bowl
< 2007	2009 >

The 2008 Motor City Bowl was a National Collegiate Athletic Association bowl game in which the Florida Atlantic Owls defeated the Central Michigan Chippewas 24–21. It was played on December 26, 2008, at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan and aired on ESPN. The underdog FAU team from the Sun Belt Conference was led by game Most Valuable Player Rusty Smith. CMU had finished in third place in the West Division of the Mid-American Conference.

The game was the 12th installment of the Motor City Bowl and was attended by 41,399 people, the fourth-lowest all time for the Motor City Bowl.

Scoring summary

Scoring play	Score
1st Quarter
FAU – DiIvory Edgecomb 1-yard TD run (Ross Gornall kick), 7:37	FAU 7–0
2nd Quarter
CMU – Kito Poblah 5-yard TD pass from Dan LeFevour (Andrew Aguila kick), 13:30	Tie 7–7
CMU – Aguila 35-yard FG, 9:30	CMU 10–7
FAU – Gornall 36-yard FG, :47	Tie 10–10
3rd Quarter
FAU – Chris Bonner 52-yard TD pass from Rusty Smith (Gornall kick), 7:57	FAU 17–10
CMU – Aguila 33-yard FG, 4:59	FAU 17–13
4th Quarter
FAU – Cortez Gent 18-yard TD pass from Smith (Gornall kick), 10:17	FAU 24–13
CMU – Antonio Brown 15-yard TD pass from LeFevour (Poblah pass from LeFevour), 3:09	FAU 24–21

v t e 2008–09 NCAA football bowl game season
EagleBank (Dec. 20) New Mexico (Dec. 20) St. Petersburg (Dec. 20) Las Vegas (Dec. 20) New Orleans (Dec. 21) Poinsettia (Dec. 23) Hawaii (Dec. 24) Motor City (Dec. 26) Meineke Car Care (Dec. 27) Champs Sports (Dec. 27) Emerald (Dec. 27) Independence (Dec. 28) PapaJohns.com (Dec. 29) Alamo (Dec. 29) Humanitarian (Dec. 30) Holiday (Dec. 30) Texas (Dec. 30) Armed Forces (Dec. 31) Sun (Dec. 31) Music City (Dec. 31) Insight (Dec. 31) Chick-fil-A (Dec. 31) Outback (Jan. 1) Gator (Jan. 1) Capital One (Jan. 1) Cotton (Jan. 2) Liberty (Jan. 2) International (Jan. 3) GMAC (Jan. 6)
Bowl Championship Series games: Rose (Jan. 1) Orange (Jan. 1) Sugar (Jan. 2) Fiesta (Jan. 5) BCS National Championship (Jan. 8)
All-Star Games: East–West Shrine Game (Jan. 17) Senior Bowl (Jan. 24) Texas vs. The Nation Game (Jan. 31)

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 Florida Atlantic Owls bowl games
2007 New Orleans Bowl 2008 Motor City Bowl 2017 Boca Raton Bowl 2019 Boca Raton Bowl 2020 Montgomery Bowl

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