2013 AdvoCare V100 Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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Date | December 31, 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||
Season | 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stadium | Independence Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | Shreveport, Louisiana | ||||||||||||||||||
MVP | B.J. Denker, Will Parks | ||||||||||||||||||
Favorite | Arizona by 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
National anthem | Cole Vosbury | ||||||||||||||||||
Referee | Alan Eck (Mtn. West) | ||||||||||||||||||
Halftime show | Both Teams Marching Bands | ||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 36,917 | ||||||||||||||||||
Payout | US$1,100,000 | ||||||||||||||||||
United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
Announcers |
Tom Hart (Play-by-play) John Congemi (Analyst) Niki Noto (Sideline) |
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The 2013 AdvoCare V100 Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was played on December 31, 2013 at Independence Stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana. The 38th edition of the AdvoCare V100 Bowl (formerly known as the Independence Bowl), it matched up the Boston College Eagles from the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Arizona Wildcats from the Pac-12 Conference. The game kicked off at 11:30 a.m. CST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2013–14 bowl games that concluded the 2013 FBS football season. This was the final game with nutritional supplement company AdvoCare as the sponsor. Arizona defeated Boston College by a score of 42–19.
Boston College finished the regular season with a record of 7–5 (4–4 ACC). Arizona's record was 7–5 (4–5 Pac-12).
The game featured the nation's top two running backs in BC's Andre Williams who was the 2013 Doak Walker Award winner and a Heisman Trophy finalist and in Arizona's Ka'Deem Carey who was also a finalist for the Doak Walker Award. Williams and Carey were FBS ranked first and second respectively in yards per game and both were consensus 2013 All-Americans, with Williams being a unanimous choice.