A Look at the GMAC Bowl
Written by Ben Pogany
--The GMAC Bowl has been played annually at Ladd Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama since 1999.
--From 1999 to 2009, it pitted a Conference USA team against a team from either the Mid-American Conference or the Western Athletic Conference.
--For the game to be played in 2010 the ACC was to participate in the bowl as its ninth bowl tie-in, replacing the Humanitarian Bowl in Boise, Idaho, in the conference's postseason lineup, but the ACC failed to have sufficient bowl-eligible teams to fill the slot. The Mid-American Conference is the other conference tie-in.
--The game was previously known as the Mobile Alabama Bowl from 1999 to 2000 until it received corporate sponsorship from GMAC Financial Services, formerly a unit of General Motors.
--The 2001 game between the Marshall Thundering Herd and East Carolina Pirates set the record as the highest scoring bowl game of all time, and Marshall achieved what was then the greatest scoring comeback in Bowl history. In this contest, Marshall battled back from a 38–8 deficit to win 64–61 in double overtime. Thundering Herd quarterback Byron Leftwich threw for 576 yards in the game.
--Results:
December 22, 1999 TCU 28 East Carolina 14 
December 20, 2000 Southern Miss 28 TCU 21
December 19, 2001 Marshall 64 East Carolina 61 (2 OT)
December 18, 2002 Marshall 38 Louisville 15
December 18, 2003 Miami (OH) 49 Louisville 28
December 22, 2004 Bowling Green 52 Memphis 35
December 21, 2005 Toledo 45 UTEP 13
January 7, 2007 Southern Miss 28 Ohio 7
January 6, 2008 Tulsa 63 Bowling Green 7
January 6, 2009 Tulsa 45 Ball State 13
January 6, 2010 Troy vs. Central Michigan
