2013 New Orleans Bowl
The 2013 New Orleans Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was played on December 21, 2013, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The thirteenth edition of the New Orleans Bowl, it featured the Tulane Green Wave of Conference USA against the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns of the Sun Belt Conference. The game began at 8:00 p.m. CST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2013–14 bowl games that concluded the 2013 FBS football season. Sponsored by freight shipping company R+L Carriers, the game was officially known as the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl. The Ragin' Cajuns defeated the Green Wave by a score of 24–21.
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| Louisiana–Lafayette win vacated by the NCAA in 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 21, 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Mercedes-Benz Superdome | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | New Orleans, Louisiana | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Orleans Darkwa (RB, Tulane) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | David Witvoet (Big Ten) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 54,728 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$500,000 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN/ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | TV: Mike Patrick (play-by-play), Ed Cunningham (analyst), Jeannine Edwards (sideline) Radio: Bill Rosinski (play-by-play), David Norrie (analyst), and Joe Schad (sideline reporter). | ||||||||||||||||||
In March 2016, Louisiana–Lafayette vacated its 2011 and 2013 New Orleans Bowl wins, due to major NCAA violations including ACT exam fraud and payments to recruits.