2007 New Mexico Bowl
The 2007 New Mexico Bowl was a post–season American college football bowl game held on December 22, 2007 at University Stadium on the University of New Mexico campus in Albuquerque, New Mexico as part of the 2007–08 NCAA bowl season. The game, telecast on ESPN, featured the Nevada Wolf Pack from the WAC and the hometown New Mexico Lobos from the Mountain West Conference.
| 2007 New Mexico Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 22, 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | University Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Albuquerque, New Mexico | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | QB Donovan Porterie, New Mexico LB Brett Madsen, New Mexico | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | New Mexico by 3½ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Greg Burks (Big 12) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 30,223 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$750,000 per team | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Dave Barnett, Rod Gilmore and Dave Ryan | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nielsen ratings | 1.96 | ||||||||||||||||||
The Lobos topped the Wolf Pack 23–0 to earn their first bowl win since the 1961 Aviation Bowl, a 45–year drought that was the fifth-longest in the nation. Another streak ended in the game with the shutout of Nevada being the Wolf Pack's first since 1980. New Mexico quarterback Donovan Porterie made up for a poor 2006 New Mexico Bowl performance with two touchdown tosses and kicker John Sullivan tacked on three long field goals in the win.