2006 Motor City Bowl

2006 Motor City Bowl
2006 Motor City Bowl
	The Central Michigan marching band performing at the game
Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders	Central Michigan Chippewas
(7–5)	(9–4)
Sun Belt	MAC
14	31
Head coach: ; Rick Stockstill	Head coach: ; Jeff Quinn; (interim)
Date	December 26, 2006
Season	2006
Stadium	Ford Field
Location	Detroit, Michigan
Referee	Gerald Wright (Mtn. West)
Attendance	54,113
United States TV coverage
Network	ESPN
Announcers	Dave LaMont, Ray Bentley, Vince Welch

The 2006 Motor City Bowl, part of the 2006–07 NCAA football bowl games season, occurred on December 26, 2006, at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. The Central Michigan Chippewas beat the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders 31–14.^[1] The Chippewas claimed their first bowl win since the 1990 California Bowl.

References

2006–07 NCAA football bowl game season
Poinsettia (Dec. 19) Las Vegas (Dec. 21) New Orleans (Dec. 22) PapaJohns.com (Dec. 23) New Mexico (Dec. 23) Armed Forces (Dec. 23) Hawaii (Dec. 24) (Dec. 26) Emerald (Dec. 27) Holiday (Dec. 28) Independence (Dec. 28) Texas (Dec. 28) Music City (Dec. 29) Sun (Dec. 29) Liberty (Dec. 29) Insight (Dec. 29) Champs Sports (Dec. 29) Meineke Car Care (Dec. 30) Alamo (Dec. 30) Chick-fil-A (Dec. 30) MPC Computers (Dec. 31) Outback (Jan. 1) Cotton (Jan. 1) Gator (Jan. 1) Capital One (Jan. 1) International (Jan. 6) GMAC (Jan. 7)
Bowl Championship Series games: Rose (Jan. 1) Fiesta (Jan. 1) Orange (Jan. 2) Sugar (Jan. 3) BCS National Championship (Jan. 8)
All-Star Games: North–South All-Star Classic (Jan. 13) Hula Bowl (Jan. 14) East–West Shrine Game (Jan. 20) Senior Bowl (Jan. 27) Texas vs. The Nation Game (Feb. 2)