2007 Motor City Bowl

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Name=2007 Motor City Bowl


Date=December 26, 2007
Year=2007
Visitor School=Purdue University
Visitor Name Short=Purdue
Visitor Nickname=Boilermakers
Visitor Record=8-5
Visitor

Visitor Coaches=
Visitor BCS=
Visitor Coach=Joe Tiller
Visitor1=21
Visitor2=13
Visitor3=7
Visitor4=10
Home School=Central Michigan University
Home Name Short=Central Michigan
Home Nickname=Chippewas
Home Record=8-6
Home

Home Coaches=
Home BCS=
Home Coach=Butch Jones
Home1=6
Home2=7
Home3=28
Home4=7
Type=bg
Stadium=Ford Field
City=Detroit, Michigan
Attendance=60,624 [ [http://www.macreportonline.com/index.php/20080128234/Football/Motor-City-Bowl-Scores-Ratings-Increase.html 20080128234 | Motor City Bowl Scores Ratings Increase | Football ] ]
Odds=Purdue by 8½ [World Feature Syndicate via "Long Beach Press-Telegram", Dec. 20, 2007]
MVP=Curtis Painter (Purdue)
Referee=Brad Allen
Anthem=
Halftime=
US Network=ESPN
US Announcers=Dave Pasch, Andre Ware [ [http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2007/12/your-comprehensive-bowl-game-announcing.html Awful Announcing: Your Comprehensive Bowl Game Announcing Schedule ] ]

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.

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 [ [http://www.motorcitybowl.com/history/yearbyyear/ motorcitybowl.com: Year-by-Year Results ] ] ).

References

External links

* [http://www.motorcitybowl.com/ Official website]