2006 Alamo Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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![]() 2006 Alamo Bowl logo | |||||||||||||||||||
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Date | December 30, 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||
Season | 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stadium | Alamodome | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | San Antonio, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||
MVP | Offensive: Colt McCoy, Texas Defensive: Aaron Ross, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||
Referee | Jay Stricherz (Pac-10) | ||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 65,875 | ||||||||||||||||||
United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
Announcers | Sean McDonough, Chris Spielman and Rob Stone | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2006 Alamo Bowl was a college football bowl game, one of the 2006–07 NCAA football bowl games that concluded the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The game was played in the 65,000-seat Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas on December 30.[1] The game matched the Texas Longhorns versus the Iowa Hawkeyes and was televised on ESPN and ESPN-HD.[1] It was the most watched bowl game in ESPN history.[2]
Alamo Bowl officials announced that both schools sold their entire allotment of tickets, resulting in the fastest sellout in Alamo Bowl history.[3] The attendance for the game was 65,875, which established a new record for the most people to gather in San Antonio to view a sporting event.[4][5] Texas won the game 26–24.