Motor City Bowl

The Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl is a bowl game held in Detroit, Michigan since 1997. The original site was the Pontiac Silverdome until Ford Field opened in 2002. The game was known as the Motor City Bowl until 2009.

The Mid-American Conference sends a host representative (usually the conference champion, although the champion is not obligated to accept this bid). The opponent, since 2007, has been slated to be a team from the Big Ten Conference, and if no eligible team is available, from the Sun Belt Conference. As the Big Ten has numerous tie-ins, only once has a Big Ten team played here since the beginning of this arrangement. In 2009, neither conference was able to supply a team, and thus Marshall from Conference USA was selected.

Results

26 DEC 1997	Mississippi	34	Marshall	31
23 DEC 1998	Marshall	48	Louisville	29
27 DEC 1999	Marshall	21	Brigham Young	3
27 DEC 2000	Marshall	25	Cincinnati	14

29 DEC 2001	Toledo	23	Cincinnati	16
26 DEC 2002	Boston College	51	Toledo	25
26 DEC 2003	Bowling Green	28	Northwestern	24
27 DEC 2004	Connecticut	39	Toledo	10
26 DEC 2005	Memphis	38	Akron	31
26 DEC 2006	Central Michigan	31	Middle Tennessee State	14
26 DEC 2007	Purdue	51	Central Michigan	48
26 DEC 2008	Florida Atlantic	24	Central Michigan	21
26 DEC 2009	Marshall	21	Ohio	17
26 DEC 2010	Florida International	34	Toledo	32

27 DEC 2011	Purdue	37	Western Michigan	32
26 DEC 2012	Central Michigan	24	Western Kentucky	21
26 DEC 2013	Pittsburgh	30	Bowling Green	27