New Orleans Bowl

The 2009 R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl (named after its title sponsor R+L Carriers) is scheduled for December 20th. It matches up the Southern Miss Golden Eagles and the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders and is being played at Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, LA.

This Bowl is one of the newer bowl games in the post-season. It started in 2001 and was previously called 'Wyndham New Orleans Bowl'. Back then the intention was to showcase the champions of the Sun Belt Conference versus an 'at-large opponent'. In the meantime the match-up has slightly changed. You will now see the champion of the Sun Belt Conference and a team from the Conference-USA. It was in 2006 when the sponsor and therefore title of the bowl changed to R+L Carriers.

Except of 2005, when the bowl was moved to Lafayette and played at Cajun Field of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette campus due to the impact of Hurricane Katrina, the location of the bowl game is the New Orleans Superdome. The Superdome is the largest, fixed dome structure in the world and can hold up to 70,000 enthusiastic fans.

Buy New Orleans Bowl tickets now and be one of those enthusiastic fans in the Superdome.

Previous games included these line-ups:

• 2009: Middle Tennessee 42 - Southern Miss 32
• 2008: Southern Mississippi 30 - Troy 27 (OT)
• 2007: Florida Atlantic 44 - Memphis 27
• 2006: Troy 41 - Rice 17
• 2005: Southern Mississippi 31 - Arkansas State 19
• 2004: Southern Mississippi 31 - North Texas 10
• 2003: Memphis 27 - North Texas 17
• 2002: North Texas 24 - Cincinnati 19
• 2001: Colorado State 45 - North Texas 20

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