| 2016 Zaxby's Heart of Dallas Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 7th Heart of Dallas Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 27, 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Cotton Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Fair Park Dallas, Texas | |||||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Ahmad Bradshaw (QB, Army)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Army by 9.5[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Hubert Owens (SEC) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 39,117 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$1,100,000[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN, RedVoice, LLC | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Allen Bestwick, Mike Bellotti, Kris Budden (ESPN) Brian Estridge, John Denton, Rob Best, Landry Burdine (RedVoice) | |||||||||||||||||||||
The 2016 Heart of Dallas Bowl was a postseason American college football bowl game played on December 27, 2016, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. The seventh edition of the Heart of Dallas Bowl, the game featured the Army Black Knights, an independent, and the North Texas Mean Green of Conference USA. It was one of the 2016–17 bowl games that concluded the 2016 FBS football season. Sponsored by fast food restaurant Zaxby's, the game was officially known as the Zaxby's Heart of Dallas Bowl. Broadcast on ESPN, Army defeated North Texas by a score of 38–31.