music city bowl history
music city bowl history
Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl tickets are your chance to see one of the best SEC teams in the country take on a top contender from the ACC. These two conferences don’t get a chance to play much during the regular season, but since they both feature some of the more exciting college football teams in the country, the Music City Bowl is a great treat for college football fans in and around Nashville. In its short history Music City Bowl tickets have been growing in popularity right along with college football itself.
The Music City Bowl came to life when the Titans headed for Nashville. Since the city had an NFL quality venue now on hand, why not put together a college football bowl package together also? Nashville is a town that draws visitors from all over the country and the area around the city is central to a good number of colleges to draw from.
In 2005 the Music City Bowl was still drawing from the ACC and the Big 10. That relationship resulted in the pairing of Virginia and Minnesota in the 2005 Music City Bowl. The Minnesota Golden Gophers entered the Music City Bowl with an offense that ranked at #5 in the nation and a team that had won its last three bowl appearances. Virginia was seen as being an underdog with the loss of four coaches at season’s end. And it was the Golden Gophers that began the scoring when Gophers quarterback Brian Cupito connected on a 7-yard TD pass to Justin Valentine early in the first quarter. Cupito put Minnesota up 14-0 later in the period when he hit Ernest Wheelwright from 44 yards out for another scoring strike. Virginia struck back late in the first quarter when Marques Hagans drove the Cavaliers 67 yards in nine plays to light up the scoreboard with a 6-yard pass to Deyon Williams. But Minnesota wasn’t dome either. Cupito had his third touchdown of the game in the second quarter, a 57 yard strike to Jared Ellerson that put the Gophers up 21-7.
Virginia is a team that can score though and the Cavaliers came back with 10 unanswered points to pull within 17-21 early in the third quarter. In a back and forth battle the Cavaliers and Gophers ended up knotted at 31 with less than 10 minutes to play in the game. Finally, with 1:08 left to play, Virginia’s Connor Hughes kicked a 39-yard field goal to put the Cavaliers on top. Together, quarterbacks Hagans and Hughes totaled over 600 yards passing in the game while the NFL bound running back Laurence Maroney ran for 109 yards.
In 2005 Music City Bowl tickets delivered a great time for fans of college football, 64 point offensive barrage that wasn’t decided until the final minute of play. What more can you ask for from a bowl game. Get ready with 2006 Music City Bowl tickets because this year it’s the SEC and the ACC getting ready to square off in the Music City Bowl. It can’t get any better than that. Can it?
