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2008 Cotton Bowl Classic

2008 AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic
1 2 3 4 Total
Missouri 7 7 14 10 38
Arkansas 0 0 7 0 7
Date January 1, 2008
Season 2007
Stadium Cotton Bowl
Location Dallas, Texas
MVP RB Tony Temple (Missouri)
SS William Moore (Missouri)
Favorite Missouri by 3½
Referee Ron Cherry
Attendance 73,114
Payout US$3,000,000 per team
United States TV coverage
Network FOX
Announcers Pat Summerall and Brian Baldinger
Cotton Bowl Classic
 < 2007  2009

The 2008 AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 2008, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas, USA. The Cotton Bowl Classic was part of the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season and one of 32 games in the 2007–2008 bowl season. The bowl game featured the Arkansas Razorbacks from the SEC and the Missouri Tigers from the Big 12 and was televised in the United States on FOX. Senior RB Tony Temple of Mizzou set a single game rushing record for the Cotton Bowl Classic with 281 yards and 4 touchdowns. His 281 rushing yards put him in second place all time for total rushing yards in a bowl game.

The Arkansas Razorbacks and the Missouri Tigers accepted the Cotton Bowl Classic's invitation to play in the bowl game on January 1. This was the Arkansas Razorbacks' 11th appearance in the Cotton Bowl Classic (with a record of 3–6–1 in previous Cotton Bowl Classics) and the second appearance for the Missouri Tigers (0–1). Many Missouri fans felt insulted that the Tigers had been sent to the Cotton Bowl Classic instead of a BCS bowl after a stunning season that included a spot atop the AP College Football Rankings and a co-championship in the Big XII North. This feeling was amplified by the fact that the Kansas Jayhawks, Missouri's historical and then-conference rival, had been invited to the BCS Orange Bowl after being beaten by the Tigers at the annual Arrowhead Stadium Border Showdown in Kansas City, Missouri.


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