Америкалық футбол: "Famous Idaho Potato Bowl" турнирінің тарихы

NCAA sanctioned post season college football bowl game

The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, previously the Humanitarian Bowl (1997–2003, 2007–2010) and the MPC Computers Bowl (2004–2006), is an NCAA sanctioned post season college football bowl game that has been played annually since 1997 at Albertsons Stadium on the campus of Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. The game is televised nationally on the ESPN family of networks. Cincinnati defeated Utah State in the inaugural game in 1997.

The game originally named for the Idaho based World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame. It was sponsored by Micron Technology, an Idaho based manufacturer, from 1999 to 2002 under the name Crucial. com, which sold computer memory upgrades from Micron. The bowl game then briefly had no sponsor for the January 2004 game. In December 2004, the name was changed to the MPC Computers Bowl. MPC Computers, which is also based in Idaho, was formerly MicronPC, the computer manufacturing division of Micron, but was later split off as a separate company. In April 2007, it was announced that the bowl would again be called the Humanitarian Bowl. In May 2007, Boise based Roady's Truck Stops was announced as the new sponsor, thus renaming the game the Roady's Humanitarian Bowl. On May 25, 2010, uDrove, a maker of applications for the transportation industry, became the sponsor of the Humanitarian Bowl, signing a four year agreement to replace Roady's. On August 3, 2011, the Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) signed a six year naming rights deal to sponsor the bowl, renaming it the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. In December 2017, IPC announced that they would be sponsoring the bowl for an additional five years. The game is the longest running cold weather bowl game currently in operation. The payout is $750,000, but teams are required to provide a corporate sponsor, purchase a minimum number of tickets, and stay at a selected hotel for a minimum stay. Because of this, 7–4 UCLA declined an invitation to the 2001 Humanitarian Bowl.

From 2008 through 2012, bowl organizers, in conjunction with the Truckload Carriers Association, featured a "Highway Angel of the Year" to game attendees. Highway Angels are truck drivers who performed a heroic feat to save the life of another motorist. Year Honoree Description 2008 Leonard T. Roach Roach pulled a driver from a water filled ditch near South Bend, Indiana, even though the wind chill factor was 2009 Michael Hunt Hunt used his truck to push away a vehicle (and its driver) from a fiery collision near Spring Lake, North Carolina, which had already claimed the life of the other driver. 2010 Shawn L. Hubbard While driving his truck near Diamond Bar, California, Hubbard came upon a fiery car crash in which the driver was deceased, but the passenger was still alive and trapped in the burning car. Hubbard freed the passenger and pulled him from the vehicle just moments before it was completely engulfed in flames. 2011 Marcus Beam While driving near Benson, North Carolina, Beam observed a speeding car strike another vehicle, causing the second car to overturn and roll down an embankment. While other motorists watched without offering help, Beam freed the female driver from the wreckage, and pulled two small children from the mangled vehicle as well. 2012 Kenny Cass While driving in Portland, Oregon, Cass witnessed a pick up truck rear end a 53' tractor trailer and become wedged up to its windshield under the trailer. Cass made the scene safe by placing emergency triangles on the road, freed the pick up truck driver from his vehicle while smoke billowed from beneath the truck and tended to the drivers wounds until emergency personnel arrived 20 minutes later.

From 1997 through 2014, the bowl named an MVP from each team; since 2015, a single MVP has been named. Year Winning team MVP Losing team MVP Player Team Pos. Player Team Pos. 1997 Chad Plummer Cincinnati QB Steve Smith Utah State WR 1998 John Welsh Idaho QB Lee Roberts Southern Miss QB 1999 Brock Forsey Boise State RB Chris Redman Louisville QB 2000 Bart Hendricks Boise State QB Chris Porter UTEP RB 2001 Woodrow Dantzler Clemson QB Delwyn Daigre Louisiana Tech WR 2002 Bobby Hammer Boise State DT Anthony Forrest Iowa State DB Jan. 2004 P. J. Daniels Georgia Tech RB Cort Moffitt Tulsa P Dec. 2004 Paul Pinegar Fresno State QB Marques Hagans Virginia QB 2005 Matt Ryan Boston College QB Jared Zabransky Boise State QB 2006 Kirby Freeman Miami (FL) QB Jeff Rowe Nevada QB 2007 Tom Brandstater Fresno State QB Jonathan Dwyer Georgia Tech RB 2008 Da'Rel Scott Maryland RB Colin Kaepernick Nevada QB 2009 DeMaundray Woolridge Idaho RB Freddie Barnes Bowling Green WR 2010 Chandler Harnish Northern Illinois QB Jamel Hamler Fresno State WR 2011 LaVon Brazill Ohio WR Michael Smith Utah State RB 2012 Kerwynn Williams Utah State RB Bernard Reedy Toledo WR 2013 Adam Muema San Diego State RB Branden Oliver Buffalo RB 2014 Shayne Davern Air Force RB Corey Davis Western Michigan WR 2015 Robert Stein Akron K 2016 Matt Linehan Idaho QB 2017 Josh Allen Wyoming QB 2018 Zach Wilson BYU QB Jan. 2020 Nathan Rourke Ohio QB Dec. 2020 Carson Strong Nevada QB 2021 Levi Williams Wyoming QB 2022 Taylor Powell Eastern Michigan QB 2023 Darren Grainger Georgia State QB

The bowl has been televised on ESPN or ESPN2 since its inception.