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Revision as of 06:06, 28 December 2009
The 2009 Insight Bowl will be the twenty first edition of the college football bowl game, and will be played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. The game will face the Iowa State Cyclones against the Minnesota Golden Gophers and is scheduled to start at 6:00 PM US EST on Thursday, December 31, 2009.[1] The game will be telecast on the NFL Network. In addition, the game will be shown on WOI-DT, broadcasting on channel 5 in the Des Moines, IA/Ames, IA market.
The game will mark the Cyclones' first postseason trip since 2005. This will be Minnesota's third Insight Bowl appearance in the last four years. The Gophers lost last season to Kansas and in 2006 to Texas Tech. Iowa State played in the 2000 Insight Bowl, beating Pittsburgh 37-29. Cyclones first-year coach Paul Rhoads turned around a team that finished 2-10 in 2008 and was winless in eight Big 12 games. Iowa State's last bowl appearance was a 27-24 loss to TCU in the 2005 Houston Bowl, now the Texas Bowl.[2]
Given the relative close proximity between them, the two schools have played each other a total of twenty five times. Minnesota has dominated the matchup holding the series lead 22-2-1. However, it should be noted that only one of the games has been played in Iowa and the two teams have only played each other three times since 1924. The last meeting between the opponents was a 53-29 Gophers victory in 1997. This will be the first bowl game played between the two schools.
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