| 2009 Outback Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 23rd Outback Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | January 1, 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Raymond James Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Tampa, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Shonn Greene (Iowa RB) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Iowa by 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | John McDaid (Big East) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 55,117 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$3.2 Million[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Sean McDonough, Chris Spielman | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nielsen ratings | 2.7 | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2009 Outback Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 2009, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. The 23rd edition of the Outback Bowl, it was one of the 2008–09 bowl games concluding the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Scheduled for a kickoff of 11 a.m. EST and telecast on ESPN, the game pitted the South Carolina Gamecocks against the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Iowa jumped out to a large lead, leading South Carolina 21–0 at halftime and 31–0 at the end of the third quarter, en route to a 31–10 victory. Shonn Greene, the MVP, had 29 rushes for 121 yards and three rushing touchdowns.[2][3]