Humanitarian Bowl

Humanitarian Bowl Tickets

Roady's Humanitarian Bowl will be played end of December. The game currently matches a team from the MWC (Mountain West Conference) with a team from the WAC (Western Athletic Conference), typically the conference champion. The MWC replaces the ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference), which did not renew its contract past the 2008 game. In the 2009 bowl game on December 30, the Idaho Vandals and the Bowling Green Falcons will face each other at Bronco Stadium, which is part of the campus of Boise State University in Boise, Idaho.

Boise State has the most appearances at the Bowl with four. They have won three of the four games, and have an incredible record on their home field. The 2006 game featured Miami versus Nevada, in which Miami would win 21-20 in Hurricanes coach Larry Coker’s last game as head coach. For Idaho and Bowling Green, it will be the first match-up of the two teams that have turned around their programs. Idaho will be making its first bowl appearance since the 1998 participation while Bowling Green will be competing in its second bowl in three years after consecutive berths in 2003 and 2004. In their last bowl attendance in 2007 Bowling Green lost the GMAC Bowl against Tulsa with an astonishing 63-7. And all that after Bowling Green finished the season 8-5 overall and had finished the MAC East 4-2.

The Big West Conference Champion had an automatic ticket to the bowl after the conference had lost its contract with the Las Vegas Bowl. From 1997–99 the opponent was a team from Conference USA, while in 2000 an at-large opponent was chosen. But then at the end of the bowl season in 2000, the Big West Conference stopped sponsoring football and the automatic bid instead went to the WAC where it remains to this day.

After the bowl went through several title sponsors, in 2007, a new sponsor was announced, Roady's Truck Stops, which changed it to the current title sponsor name.

Bronco Stadium is a rather small stadium compared to some of the other college football bowl game locations. It holds approx. 33,000 specators and it is an outdoor field, where the bowl game will happen. But it is not its size that the stadium is known for. The field color is BLUE (vs. the green we are usually used to).



That makes the stadium better known as “The Blue”. It's been hosting the event since 1997 and is the longest running outdoor bowl game in a cold weather venue. Cold weather and hot tempers make the Humanitarian Bowl a must see event.
Buy your Humanitarian Bowl Tickets now before it is too late and be one of the tens of thousands enthusiastic fans in this 'blue turf' stadium.

Previous games included these line-ups:

• 2009: Idaho 43 - Bowling Green 42
• 2008: Maryland 42 - Nevada 35
• 2007: Fresno State 40 - Georgia Tech 28
• 2006: Miami 21 - Nevada 20
• 2005: Boston College 27 - Boise State 21
• 2004: Fresno State 37 - Virginia 34 (OT)
• 2003: Georgia Tech 52 - Tulsa 10
• 2002: Boise State 34 - Iowa State 16
• 2001: Clemson 49 - Louisiana Tech 24

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