2016 Hawaii Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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15th Hawaii Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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Date | December 24, 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
Season | 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stadium | Aloha Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | Honolulu, Hawaii | ||||||||||||||||||
MVP | Dru Brown (QB, Hawaii) & Richie James (WR, Middle Tennessee) | ||||||||||||||||||
Favorite | No Line[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
Referee | Charles Lamertina (AAC) | ||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 20,327 | ||||||||||||||||||
Payout | US$650,000[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
Network | ESPN/ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||||
Announcers | Chris Cotter, Mark May, Maria Taylor (TV) Kevin Winter, Mike Golic Jr (Radio) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2016 Hawaii Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 24, 2016, at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The fifteenth edition of the Hawaii Bowl featured the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors from the Mountain West Conference against the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders from Conference USA. It began at 3:15 p.m. HST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2016–17 bowl games that concluded the 2016 FBS football season.