Defunct college football bowl game held in Detroit
Little Caesars Pizza Bowl (defunct)
Motor City Bowl
Stadium
Ford Field
Location
Detroit, Michigan
Previous stadiums
Pontiac Silverdome (1997–2001)
Previous locations
Pontiac, Michigan (1997–2001)
Operated
1997–2013
Conference tie-ins
Big Ten, MAC Sun Belt (alternate)
Payout
US$750,000 per team
Succeeded by
Quick Lane Bowl
Sponsors
Ford (1997) Ford, Chrysler, GM (1998-2007) Ford, GM, UAW (2008)[1] Little Caesars (2009–2013)
Former names
Ford Motor City Bowl (1997) Motor City Bowl (1998–2008)
2013 matchup
Pittsburgh vs. Bowling Green (Pitt 30–27)
The Little Caesars Pizza Bowl (known as the Motor City Bowl until 2009) was a post-season college football bowl game that was played annually from 1997 to 2013. The first five games (1997–2001) were played at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan, and moved to the 65,000-seat Ford Field in downtown Detroit, Michigan in 2002—the past and present homes of the Detroit Lions respectively. The game marked the first bowl game held in the Detroit area since the Cherry Bowl in 1984–85.
The Little Caesars Pizza Bowl featured a bowl-eligible team from the Mid-American Conference (usually the winner of the MAC Championship Game, although that team was not required to accept the bid; prior to the formation of the bowl the MAC champion earned an automatic bid to the Las Vegas Bowl) playing a bowl-eligible team from the Big Ten Conference. If the Big Ten did not have an eligible team, the game featured a team from the Sun Belt Conference that met the NCAA requirement of at least six wins. In the event that the Sun Belt did not have an available team, an at-large team could be chosen.
The final Little Caesars Pizza Bowl was held in 2013; it was displaced by the Quick Lane Bowl, which is organized by the Detroit Lions and also features Big Ten and MAC opponents (though the ACC served as the Big Ten's opponent through 2019). Organizers explored the possibility of moving the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl to nearby Comerica Park as an outdoor game, but the game would instead be cancelled.
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play to finish in fifth place. They were invited to the LittleCaesarsPizzaBowl, their first bowl appearance since joining FBS in 2007, where they were...
over Western Kentucky in the 2012 LittleCaesarsPizzaBowl, CMU's first bowl appearance and win since the 2010 GMAC Bowl. The 4-game winning streak gave...
stadium was home to the LittleCaesarsPizzaBowl sponsored by Detroit-based LittleCaesars (previously known as the Motor City Bowl and jointly sponsored...
bowl game for four consecutive years, including two more Motor City Bowls. In 2009, they returned to play in what was now renamed the LittleCaesars Pizza...
renewed in 2009 when the Herd and Bobcats faced off in the 2009 LittleCaesarsPizzaBowl, which the Herd won 21–17. Ohio leads the all-time series over...
against Ohio State in 3 years. The team would end up going to the LittleCaesarsPizzaBowl, where they defeated Western Michigan 37–32 to achieve Hope's...
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