2016 Hawaii Bowl
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| Date | December 24, 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Aloha Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Honolulu, Hawaii | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | No Line | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Charles Lamertina (AAC) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 20,327 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$650,000 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN/ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Chris Cotter, Mark May, Maria Taylor (TV) Kevin Winter, Mike Golic Jr (Radio) |
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The 2016 Hawaii Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 24, 2016 at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The fifteenth edition of the Hawaii Bowl featured the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders from Conference USA against the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors from the Mountain West Conference. It began at 3:15 p.m. HAST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2016–17 bowl games that concluded the 2016 FBS football season.
The game featured the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors with a record of 6–7 against Middle Tennessee. This was the second time that the Hawaii Bowl featured a team with a losing record, after Fresno State in the 2014 Hawaii Bowl.
This was the second meeting between the schools; the first meeting was on September 5, 1993, where the Rainbow Warriors defeated the Blue Raiders by a score of 35–14.
Hawaii, playing in their first bowl game since 2010, was the first Hawaii team to enter a bowl game with a losing record. The Rainbow Warriors, led by head coach Nick Rolovich, won the most league games since joining the MW in 2012, and had the most wins in a season since 2011. The Bows had lost three straight bowl games, including the 2008 BCS Sugar Bowl against Georgia, and had not won since a 41-24 Hawaii Bowl win over Arizona State in 2006, 10 years earlier.
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