2007 Sun Bowl

2007 Brut Sun Bowl
2007 Brut Sun Bowl
74th Sun Bowl
	Sun Bowl Logo
South Florida Bulls	Oregon Ducks
(9–3)	(8–4)
Big East	Pac-10
21	56
Head coach: ; Jim Leavitt	Head coach: ; Mike Bellotti
Date	December 31, 2007
Season	2007
Stadium	Sun Bowl Stadium
Location	El Paso, Texas
MVP	RB Jonathan Stewart, Oregon
Favorite	South Florida by 6½
Halftime show	Baby Bash, Paula DeAnda
Attendance	49,867
Payout	US$1.9 million per team
United States TV coverage
Network	CBS
Announcers	Craig Bolerjack, Steve Beuerlein
Sun Bowl
< 2006	2008 >

The 2007 Brut Sun Bowl, part of the 2007-08 NCAA football bowl games season, was played on December 31, 2007, at Sun Bowl Stadium on the campus of the University of Texas, El Paso, between the South Florida Bulls and the Oregon Ducks.

The Ducks were playing without quarterback Dennis Dixon, who finished fifth in the Heisman Trophy balloting but who had season-ending ACL surgery in November. Redshirt freshman Justin Roper made his first collegiate start in place of Dixon and threw for four touchdowns to tie a Sun Bowl record and lead the Ducks to a 56–21 victory.

The game marked the 40th consecutive telecast by CBS Sports. No other network and bowl game has been paired for a longer period of time.

References[]

^ ^a ^b Rivals.com College Football - Rivals.com bowl viewer's guide Archived 2007-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Brut Sun Bowl - Baby Bash To Perform At Halftime". Archived from the original on January 3, 2008. Retrieved December 26, 2007.
^ "ncaafootball.com - Bowl Schedules/Results". Archived from the original on August 3, 2007. Retrieved September 19, 2009.

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[collegefootball.rivals.com-1] Rivals.com College Football - Rivals.com bowl viewer's guide Archived 2007-12-15 at the Wayback Machine

[2] "Brut Sun Bowl - Baby Bash To Perform At Halftime". Archived from the original on January 3, 2008. Retrieved December 26, 2007.

[3] "ncaafootball.com - Bowl Schedules/Results". Archived from the original on August 3, 2007. Retrieved September 19, 2009.

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Notes	Util the 1957 season, the Sun Bowl was played in January of the ensuing year (for example, the 1935 season game played in January 1936). Since 1958 (except in 1976), the Sun Bowl is played in December. The 1976 season Sun Bowl was played in January 1977 and the 1977 season Sun Bowl was played in December 1977. No game was held in the 2020 season because of pandemic-related issues.