| 2012 New Era Pinstripe Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 29, 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Yankee Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Bronx, New York | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Prince-Tyson Gulley | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Off[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Jay Stricherz (Pac-12) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 39,098 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Chris Fowler (play-by-play) Jesse Palmer (analyst) Tom Rinaldi (sidelines) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2012 New Era Pinstripe Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game held on December 29, 2012 at Yankee Stadium in the New York City borough of The Bronx in the United States. The third edition of the Pinstripe Bowl began at 3:15 p.m. EST and aired on ESPN. It featured the West Virginia Mountaineers from the Big 12 Conference against the Big East Conference co-champion Syracuse Orange and was the final game of the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season for both teams. Both the Orange and the Mountaineers advanced to the game after accomplishing 7–5 records in the regular season.
The Mountaineers and the Orange had a notable continuous rivalry from 1955 until 2011. This included the years in the Big East Conference, which was established in 1979. The winner of the game was awarded the Ben Schwartzwalder Trophy from its establishment in 1993. That trophy was not on the line in the Pinstripe Bowl.