GMAC Bowl
| Dollar General Bowl | |
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| "Mobile Bowl" | |
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| Stadium | Ladd Peebles Stadium |
| Location | Mobile, Alabama |
| Operated | 1999–present |
| Conference tie-ins | Sun Belt, MAC |
| Previous conference tie-ins | ACC, C-USA, WAC |
| Payout | US$750,000 (as of 2015) |
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| Former names | |
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Mobile Alabama Bowl (1999)
GMAC Mobile Alabama Bowl (2000) GMAC Bowl (2001–2010) GoDaddy.com Bowl (2011–2013) GoDaddy Bowl (2014–2015) |
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| 2016 matchup | |
| Ohio vs. Troy (Troy 28–23) | |
The Dollar General Bowl is a postseason NCAA-sanctioned Division I FBS college football bowl game that has been played annually at Ladd Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama, since 1999. The game currently matches teams from the Sun Belt Conference and the Mid-American Conference.
The game was known as the Mobile Alabama Bowl from 1999 to 2000. It was then known as the GMAC Bowl from 2000 to 2010 when its corporate sponsorship was GMAC Financial Services, then known as first the GoDaddy.com Bowl from 2011 to 2013 when Go Daddy took over sponsorship and then the GoDaddy Bowl from 2014 to 2015. From 1999 to 2009, the bowl pitted a Conference USA team against a team from either the Mid-American Conference or the Western Athletic Conference. For the 2010 game the Atlantic Coast Conference was to participate in the bowl as its ninth bowl tie-in. The ACC failed to have sufficient bowl-eligible teams to fill the slot, and the bowl chose Sun Belt conference champion Troy as a replacement. The Mid-American Conference was the other conference tie-in.
The 2001 game between the Marshall Thundering Herd and East Carolina Pirates set the record as the highest-scoring bowl game of all time, and Marshall achieved what was then the greatest scoring comeback in bowl history. In this contest, Marshall battled back from a 38–8 deficit to win 64–61 in double overtime. Thundering Herd quarterback Byron Leftwich threw for 576 yards in the game.
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