Game Name: | Foster Farms Bowl |
Subheader: | 15th Foster Farms Bowl |
Date Game Played: | December 28 |
Year Game Played: | 2016 |
Football Season: | 2016 |
City: | Santa Clara, California |
Home School: | University of Utah |
Home Name Short: | Utah |
Home Nickname: | Utes |
Home Record: | 8–4 |
Home Conference: | Pac-12 |
Home Rank Ap: | NR |
Home Rank Coaches: | 23 |
Home Rank Cfp: | 19 |
Home Coach: | Kyle Whittingham |
Home 1Q: | 10 |
Home 2Q: | 7 |
Home 3Q: | 6 |
Home 4Q: | 3 |
Visitor School: | Indiana University |
Visitor Name Short: | Indiana |
Visitor Nickname: | Hoosiers |
Visitor Record: | 6–6 |
Visitor Conference: | Big Ten |
Visitor Coach: | Tom Allen |
Visitor 1Q: | 7 |
Visitor 2Q: | 10 |
Visitor 3Q: | 0 |
Visitor 4Q: | 7 |
Odds: | Utah by 8[1] |
Mvp: | Offensive: Utah RB Joe Williams Defensive: Indiana LB Tegray Scales |
Anthem: | Felisha Dias[2] |
Referee: | David Smith (SEC) |
Attendance: | 27,608 |
Payout: | 2,584,286[3] |
Us Network: | Fox |
Us Announcers: | Gus Johnson (Play-by-Play) Joel Klatt (Color Analyst) Shannon Spake (Sideline Reporter) |
The 2016 Foster Farms Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on December 28, 2016, at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. It was one of the 2016–17 bowl games concluding the 2016 FBS football season. The 15th edition of the Foster Farms Bowl, the game featured the Utah Utes from the Pac-12 Conference against the Indiana Hoosiers from the Big Ten Conference.
The 2016 edition was the first under its new management, as it is now run by the San Francisco 49ers NFL team.[4]
The game featured conference tie-ins with teams from the Pac-12 Conference and the Big Ten Conference.
See also: 2016 Utah Utes football team and 2016 Pac-12 Conference football season. The Utes finished their regular season 8-4 and accepted an invitation to play in the Foster Farms Bowl.[5] This was Utah's second trip to the Foster Farms Bowl, with the previous appearance being during the 2005–06 bowl season when they won against Georgia Tech by a score of 38–10 in the 2005 Emerald Bowl.[6]
See also: 2016 Indiana Hoosiers football team and 2016 Big Ten Conference football season. After finishing their season 6–6, the Hoosiers received an invitation to play in the Foster Farms Bowl, which they accepted.[7] This bowl marked the Hoosiers' eleventh bowl game (they were 3–7 in bowl games previously) and they were seeking their first bowl victory since the 1991 Copper Bowl, when they shut out Baylor 24–0.
Statistics | IND | Utah |
---|---|---|
First downs | 22 | 21 |
Plays–yards | 77–341 | 76–470 |
Rushes–yards | 37–117 | 52–256 |
Passing yards | 224 | 214 |
Passing: Comp–Att–Int | 15-40-1 | 12-24-1 |
Time of possession | 24:37 | 35:23 |
Team | Category | Player | Statistics |
---|---|---|---|
IND | Passing | Richard Lagow | 14/39, 188 yds, 1 TD, 1 INT |
Rushing | 17 car, 72 yds, 1 TD | ||
Receiving | 5 rec, 80 yds, 1 TD | ||
Utah | Passing | 11/23, 178 yds, 1 INT | |
Rushing | 26 car, 222 yds, 1 TD | ||
Receiving | Demari Simpkins | 4 rec, 58 yds |
The 2016 Foster Farms Bowl was the first broadcast under a new deal with Fox News.
Levi's Stadium was equipped for Intel freeD instant replay technology (previously used by CBS during Super Bowl 50 at the stadium earlier in the year) in order to facilitate testing for Be the Player – a new instant replay feature Fox planned to use during Super Bowl LI to present first-person perspectives of plays.[8] [9]