Music City Bowl

The Music City Bowl is a post-season American college football game certified by the NCAA that has been played in Nashville, Tennessee, since 1998. Beginning in 1999, the game has been played at The Coliseum, home of the Tennessee Titans. Beginning in 2002, the game became known as the Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl. In 2003, it became officially called the Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl Presented by Bridgestone. The game initially featured a matchup between represenatives of the Southeastern Conference and the Big East Conference, but the Big East was replaced by the Big Ten Conference effective in 2002. Beginning with the 2006 game, the Big Ten Conference will be replaced by the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Previous sponsors of the bowl game have included American General Life & Accident (now a subsidiary of AIG) in the inaugural 1998 game, and the now-defunct "homepoint.com" in the 1999 game. There was no sponsor in 2000 and 2001.

1 Previous results
2 MVPs
3 See also
4 External links

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Previous results

Date Played	Winning Team		Losing Team
December 29, 1998	Virginia Tech	38	Alabama	7
December 29, 1999	Syracuse	20	Kentucky	13
December 28, 2000	West Virginia	49	Mississippi	38
December 28, 2001	Boston College	20	Georgia	16
December 30, 2002	Minnesota	29	Arkansas	14
December 31, 2003	Auburn	28	Wisconsin	14
December 31, 2004	Minnesota	20	Alabama	16
December 30, 2005¹	Virginia	34	Minnesota	31

Note 1: Virginia from the ACC replaced the SEC team, as that conference did not have enough teams with six wins for qualifying to a bowl game.

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MVPs

Date played	MVP	Team	Position
December 29, 1998	Corey Moore	Virginia Tech	DE
December 29, 1999	James Mungro	Syracuse	RB
December 29, 2000	Brad Lewis	West Virginia	QB
December 28, 2001	William Green	Boston College	RB
December 30, 2002	Dan Nystrom	Minnesota	K
December 31, 2003	Jason Campbell	Auburn	QB
December 31, 2004	Marion Barber	Minnesota	RB
December 30, 2005	Marques Hagans	Virginia	QB