| 2013 Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 30, 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Amon G. Carter Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Fort Worth, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Mark Kluczynski (MAC) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 39,246[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$$600,000 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN/ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Beth Mowins (play-by-play) Joey Galloway (analyst) Paul Carcaterra (sidelines) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2013 Armed Forces Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was played on December 30, 2013, at Amon G. Carter Stadium on the campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. The eleventh edition of the Armed Forces Bowl (which was originally known as the Fort Worth Bowl), it featured the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders of Conference USA against the Navy Midshipmen, an independent team. It began at 10:45 a.m. CST and aired on ESPN.[2] It was one of the 2013–14 bowl games that concluded the 2013 FBS football season. The game was sponsored by Bell Helicopter and was officially known as the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl. Navy defeated Middle Tennessee by a score of 24–6.
The Midshipmen accepted their invitation after earning a 6–4 record in their first ten games of the season,[3] while the Blue Raiders accepted their invitation after earning an 8–4 record in theirs.[4]