Portal:American football/Selected article/June, 2007

The 2006 Alamo Bowl was the seventeenth of thirty-two collegiate bowl games played during the 2006-07 bowl season, subsequent to the National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Bowl Subdivision's 2006 season. The game, played at the Alamodome (pictured) in San Antonio, Texas, on December 30, 2006, matched the defending champion University of Texas Longhorns of the Big 12 Conference and the University of Iowa Hawkeyes of the Big Ten Conference; the Longhorns entered the game as an 11-point favorite. The matchup for the game was finalized on December 3, when the Longhorns, having failed to earn selection to a New Year's Day game, accepted an invitation to the side's first-ever Alamo Bowl; tickets sold out in record time, and a crowd of 65,875 ultimately attended the game, which also became the most-watched bowl game ever broadcast on the cable television network ESPN. Iowa received the opening kickoff and compiled a 77-yard drive on its first offensive series, tallying a touchdown on a one-yard rush by running back Albert Young. Texas failed to score on its first series and punted to the Hawkeyes, who extended their first-quarter lead to 14 points when quarterback Drew Tate threw a 63-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Andy Brodell.

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