2012 BBVA Compass Bowl

August 2023 BBVA Compass Bowl January 7 2012 2011 Legion Field Birmingham, Alabama 2011 SMU Mustangs football team SMU Mustangs 7–5 June Jones C-USA 21 0 7 0 2011 Pittsburgh Panthers football team Pittsburgh Panthers 6–6 Keith Patterson(interim) Big East 0 3 3 0 Pittsburgh by 5Bowl Schedule, Los Angeles Times, December 7, 2011 Darius Johnson (SMU)Final Game Book, BBVA Compass Bowl, January 7, 2012 Dan Romeo (Big 12) 29,726 1 million (SEC); $900,000 (Big East)ESPN develops new financial model for BBVA Compass Bowl Jon Solomon http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2010/11/espn_develops_new_financial_mo.html The Birmingham News November 5, 2010 December 15, 2011 ESPN Mike Gleason (Play-by-Play)John Congemi (Analyst)Eamon McAnaney (Sidelines) 1.49 The 2012 BBVA Compass Bowl, the sixth edition of the game, was a post-season American college football bowl game, held on January 7, 2012, at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama, as part of the 2011–12 NCAA Bowl season. The game, which was telecast at 12:00 p.m. CT on ESPN, featured the SMU Mustangs of Conference USA versus the Pittsburgh Panthers of the Big East Conference. This was Pittsburgh's second consecutive appearance in the game, and just as in the previous contest the Panthers were led by an interim head coach, Keith Patterson, after Todd Graham resigned on December 13, 2011.Graham leaves Pitt for Arizona State Paul Zeise http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11349/1197067-233.stm https://web.archive.org/web/20120107125018/http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11349/1197067-233.stm dead January 7, 2012 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette December 15, 2011 December 15, 2011 Teams Pittsburgh and SMU met for the first time in 29 years in this BBVA Compass Bowl, which normally pairs a Big East conference team against a team from the Southeastern Conference. The SEC conference did not have enough bowl-eligible teams this season and the SMU football team was selected by the organizers to play in the bowl. Pittsburgh and SMU had met five times previously, the last time at the 1983 Cotton Bowl on New Year's Day, when the Mustangs won 7–3. Pittsburgh 2011 Pittsburgh Panthers football team SMU 2011 SMU Mustangs football team References BBVA Compass Bowl Category:Birmingham Bowl Category:Pittsburgh Panthers football bowl games Category:SMU Mustangs football bowl games BBVA Compass Bowl BBVA Compass Bowl