The Valero Alamo Bowl
December means more than Christmas lights and jingle bells to San Antonio. Since the first game in 1993, the Valero Alamo Bowl has created excitement and pageantry in San Antonio that wraps up the end of the month with thrilling games in front of capacity crowds and record television ratings.
The Valero Alamo Bowl showcases two of the premier conferences in the country, the Big 12 and Big Ten. The Bowl has quickly become one of the most popular bowls in the country, producing four of the top 20 most-watched bowl games in ESPN history while selling out three of the last five years.
Over the last 16 years, the Valero Alamo Bowl has hosted 16 bowl games and three Big 12 Football Championship games in the Alamodome in San Antonio. These 19 games have attracted 1,131,739 spectators (over 50% are out-of-town visitors), generated a direct economic impact in excess of $292 million, contributed nearly $53 million to higher education, distributed $518,000 in local scholarship funds and been viewed by 137 million national television viewers on ESPN and ABC.
In 2008, 7 million viewers watched #23 Missouri top #20 Northwestern in 30-23 in what was only the second overtime game in Valero Alamo Bowl history. In 2007 an Alamodome record sports crowd of 66,166 for the 2007 Valero Alamo Bowl between Penn State and Texas A&M translated into a bowl record $42.6 million direct economic impact for San Antonio. In 2006, the Alamo Bowl featured Texas and Iowa in a game that earned a 6.0 rating making it the at the time the most-watched college football game in ESPN history as more than 8.83 million viewers saw the telecast.
To view the Valero Alamo Bowl's all-time attendance and TV rating records, please click here.
From NCAA record-breaking performances like Nebraska's 66 points in 2000 to thrilling finishes like Drew Brees leading Purdue in an 80 yard touchdown drive to overtake Kansas State in 1998 in the final seconds, the Valero Alamo Bowl has something for everyone
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