| Year game played | 2007 |
|---|---|
| Title sponsor | Brut |
| Game name | Sun Bowl |
| Subheader | 74th Sun Bowl |
| Football season | 2007 |
| Visitor name short | South Florida |
| Visitor nickname | Bulls |
| Visitor school | University of South Florida |
| Home name short | Oregon |
| Home nickname | Ducks |
| Home school | University of Oregon |
| Visitor record | 9–3 |
| Visitor conference | Big East |
| Home record | 8–4 |
| Home conference | Pac-10 |
| Visitor coach | Jim Leavitt |
| Home coach | Mike Bellotti |
| Visitor rank ap | 23 |
| Visitor rank coaches | 25 |
| Visitor rank bcs | 21 |
| Visitor 1q | 0 |
| Visitor 2q | 14 |
| Visitor 3q | 0 |
| Visitor 4q | 7 |
| Home 1q | 8 |
| Home 2q | 10 |
| Home 3q | 28 |
| Home 4q | 10 |
| Date game played | December 31 |
| Stadium | Sun Bowl |
| City | El Paso, Texas |
| Mvp | RB Jonathan Stewart, Oregon |
| Odds | Oregon by 6½[1] |
| Referee | Bill Alge (MAC) |
| Halftime | Baby Bash, Paula DeAnda, Bands from participants [2] |
| Attendance | 49,867 |
| Payout | 1.9 million per team[3] |
| Us network | CBS |
| Us announcers | Craig Bolerjack, Steve Beuerlein, and Sam Ryan[1] |
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
- ^ 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 2008-01-03. Retrieved 2007-12-26.
- ^ "ncaafootball.com - Bowl Schedules/Results". Archived from the original on August 3, 2007. Retrieved September 19, 2009.