2007 Music City Bowl
2007 Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl presented by Bridgestone | |||||||||||||||||||
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10th Music City Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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Date | December 31, 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||
Season | Announcers Ron Franklin (Play by Play) | Ed Cunningham (Analyst) Jack Arute (Sideline) | |||||||||||||||||
The 2007 Music City Bowl was the 10th edition of the
The Seminoles came into the game without 34 players due to various injuries, violations of team rules, and a large
In the first quarter, Kentucky scored first on a 14-yard
Kentucky struck first in the third quarter when Woodson threw a 2-yard touchdown pass to Rafael Little. A 4-yard touchdown run by Tony Dixon boosted Kentucky's third quarter lead to 28–14. Florida State scored first in the fourth quarter with a 1-yard Weatherford touchdown run to make it 28–21. Woodson's 38-yard touchdown pass to Steve Johnson extended the Kentucky lead to 35–21. The game's final score was a 7-yard touchdown pass from Weatherford to Greg Carr to bring about the final tally: Kentucky 35, Florida State 28. The game appeared iced when Kentucky linebacker Micah Johnson intercepted a Weatherford pass with less than one minute remaining, but in attempting to return the interception Johnson fumbled the ball away and Florida State recovered. Florida State threw a pass into the end zone at the end of regulation but Kentucky defenders batted it down to seal the win.
The attendance of 68,661 set a new record for the Music City Bowl.
In Kentucky's 35–28 victory, 2006 game MVP André Woodson repeated as the 2007 MVP after throwing four touchdown passes. Florida State's Antone Smith gained a career-high 156 rushing yards; Kentucky's Rafael Little rushed for 152 yards and caught one touchdown pass, but he also fumbled twice. The win gave the Wildcats back-to-back bowl wins for the first time since 1952. It was also the first loss ever for the elder Bowden in a December bowl game.[7]
References
- ^ Phil Steele's 2009 College Football Preview, p.43
- ^ a b Scoring Summary (PDF). Music City Bowl. 31 December 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 February 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
- ^ "2007-08 Bowl Schedule". NCAAFootball.com. Archived from the original on May 13, 2007. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
- ^ AP Poll Archive
- ^ AP Poll Archive
- ^ Scandal, rule violations, injuries deplete Florida State bowl roster, Associated Press, December 22, 2007.
- ^ "Wildcats hand Bowden first December bowl loss". ESPN.com. Associated Press. December 31, 2007. Retrieved December 31, 2007.