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| 2005 MasterCard Alamo Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 28, 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Alamodome | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | San Antonio, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Cory Ross (Nebraska RB) Leon Hall (Michigan CB) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Jim Jackson (Sun Belt) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 63,016 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Mike Tirico, Kirk Herbstreit, Erin Andrews | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2005 Alamo Bowl was a college football bowl game held on December 28, 2005 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. It was the 13th Alamo Bowl. The Nebraska Cornhuskers, second-place finishers in the Big 12 Conference's North Division, defeated the Michigan Wolverines, third-placed finishers in the Big Ten Conference. This matchup was notable in that it featured the two schools that shared the 1997 national championship. At the time, Michigan and Nebraska were two of only five schools in NCAA Division I history with 800 or more victories.