| 2007 Valero Alamo Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 29, 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Alamodome | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | San Antonio, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Offense: Rodney Kinlaw Defense: Sean Lee[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Penn State by 5½[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | R. G. Detillier (C-USA) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halftime show | Aggie Band and Blue Band | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 66,166[3] | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Chris Fowler, Doug Flutie, Craig James | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nielsen ratings | 2.7 | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2007 Valero Alamo Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 29, 2007 in the 65,000-seat Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, and nationally televised by ESPN. The game was one of the 2007–08 NCAA football bowl games that concluded the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was the 15th Alamo Bowl and the first Alamo Bowl sponsored by the Valero Energy Corporation.
The game featured the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Texas A&M Aggies, who were both unranked in the national polls. The two teams had met once in the Alamo Bowl in 1999, when Penn State shutout Texas A&M 24–0. The Aggies were coached by interim head coach Gary Darnell, who had taken over after Dennis Franchione resigned, and the Nittany Lions were coached by Hall of Famer Joe Paterno, who marked the 2007 Alamo Bowl as the 500th game of his head coaching career.