2007 Motor City Bowl

August 2023 March 2026 2007 Motor City Bowl MotorCityBowlLogo.png 2007 Purdue Boilermakers Purdue University Central Michigan Chippewas Central Michigan University 7–5 Big Ten 8–5 MAC Joe Tiller Butch Jones 21 13 7 10 6 7 28 7 December 26 Ford Field Detroit, Michigan Curtis Painter (Purdue) Purdue by 8½World Feature Syndicate via Long Beach Press-Telegram, Dec. 20, 2007 Brad Allen (ACC) 60,624http://www.macreportonline.com/index.php/20080128234/Football/Motor-City-Bowl-Scores-Ratings-Increase.html 20080128234 Motor City Bowl Scores Ratings Increase Football 2008-01-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20080130123755/http://www.macreportonline.com/index.php/20080128234/Football/Motor-City-Bowl-Scores-Ratings-Increase.html 2008-01-30 dead 750,000 per teamhttp://www.ncaafootball.com/index.php?s%3D%26url_channel_id%3D34%26url_article_id%3D9255%26change_well_id%3D2 ncaafootball.com - Bowl Schedules/Results 2009-09-19 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070803194501/http://www.ncaafootball.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=34&url_article_id=9255&change_well_id=2 2007-08-03 ESPN List of announcers of major college bowl games Dave Pasch, Andre Ware, and Quint Kessenich The 2007 Motor City Bowl, part of the 2007-08 NCAA football bowl games season, occurred on December 26, 2007 at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, United States. The Central Michigan Chippewas, who won their second straight Mid-American Conference championship on the same field on December 1, returned to take on the Purdue Boilermakers, whom bowl officials invited from the Big Ten Conference. The bowl was a rematch of a game played on September 15 in West Lafayette, Indiana. The Boilermakers won that game, 45–22. CMU had defeated Middle Tennessee in the 2006 game. Purdue dominated the first half of the game, scoring 3 touchdowns in the first quarter to Central's 2 field goals, and by halftime they had assured a 21-point lead over the Chippewas. Central came back in the third quarter, scoring 4 touchdowns to tie the game. The final score was 51–48, with Purdue kicker Chris Summers kicking a game-winning field goal as time expired. Purdue quarterback Curtis Painter threw for 543 pass yards, setting a Motor City Bowl record and placing him fourth on the list of all-time bowl game performances. His total broke the Purdue school record. The attendance of 60,624 broke the Motor City Bowl record, which had been set in 2006 by Central Michigan and Middle Tennessee (54,113http://www.motorcitybowl.com/history/yearbyyear/ motorcitybowl.com: Year-by-Year Results 2008-01-28 2008-04-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20080415021422/http://www.motorcitybowl.com/history/yearbyyear/ dead ). See also List of college football post-season games that were rematches of regular season games References Motor City Bowl Category:Little Caesars Pizza Bowl Category:Central Michigan Chippewas football bowl games Category:Purdue Boilermakers football bowl games Category:December 2007 sports events in the United States Motor City Bowl Category:2007 in Detroit