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2007 Alamo Bowl

2007 Valero Alamo Bowl
1 2 3 4 Total
Penn State 0 17 7 0 24
Texas A&M 14 0 3 0 17
Date December 28, 2007
Season 2007
Stadium Alamodome
Location San Antonio, Texas
MVP Offense: Rodney Kinlaw
Defense: Sean Lee
Favorite Penn State by 5½
Referee R. G. Detillier
Halftime show Aggie Band and Blue Band
Attendance 66,166
United States TV coverage
Network ESPN
Announcers Chris Fowler, Doug Flutie, Craig James
Nielsen ratings 2.7
Alamo Bowl
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The 2007 Valero Alamo Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 29, 2007 in the 65,000-seat Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, and nationally televised by ESPN. The game was one of the 2007–08 NCAA football bowl games that concluded the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was the 15th Alamo Bowl and the first Alamo Bowl sponsored by the Valero Energy Corporation.

The game featured the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Texas A&M Aggies, who were both unranked in the national polls. The two teams had met once in the Alamo Bowl in 1999, when Penn State shutout Texas A&M 24–0. The Aggies were coached by interim head coach Gary Darnell, who had taken over after Dennis Franchione resigned, and the Nittany Lions were coached by Hall of Famer Joe Paterno, who marked the 2007 Alamo Bowl as the 500th game of his head coaching career.

This was the Aggies' 30th bowl appearance, and their third in the Alamo Bowl. In their first Alamo Bowl game in 1995, the 19th-ranked Aggies defeated the 14th-ranked Michigan Wolverines 22–20. In their second appearance in 1999, 13th-ranked Penn State defeated the 18th-ranked Aggies 24–0. Both the 1995 and 1999 games are two of the five in Alamo Bowl history that attracted sellout crowds, with the 1999 game having the second largest crowd.


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