Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The 2010 Alamo Bowl (known via corporate sponsorship as the Valero Alamo Bowl) was the seventeenth edition of the college football bowl game, and was played at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas on Saturday, January 2, 2010. The game featured the Michigan State Spartans against the Texas Tech Red Raiders.The 2010 game was the last one to feature a team from the Big Ten. In the fall of 2009, it was announced that the Pac-10 second-place team will take part in the Alamo Bowl instead of the Holiday Bowl which they currently participate in unless they qualify for the BCS. The Alamo Bowl will offer 2011 teams $3 million payouts, thus taking away a team from the Pac-10 and attracting higher-ranking teams from the Big 12. According to Bruce Binkowski, the Holiday's executive director, average ticket prices for the Holiday Bowl would have had to have been increased from $60 to $100 to match the Alamo Bowl's offer.This was the third Alamo Bowl appearance and first Alamo Bowl win for the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Their most recent previously appearance was a 19–16 loss to Iowa in the 2001 game. Michigan State played in one previous Alamo Bowl, losing the 2003 edition to Nebraska 17–3. The game also marked the first-ever meeting between the two schools.With approximately 5,553,630 households watching it, the game was the most viewed Alamo Bowl in history. It also drew the highest rating of any bowl ever shown by ESPN. Behind the BCS bowl games and the Capital One Bowl, it was the most viewed bowl shown up to that point in the 2009/10 bowl season.. }
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- 2010_Alamo_Bowl_(January) abstract "The 2010 Alamo Bowl (known via corporate sponsorship as the Valero Alamo Bowl) was the seventeenth edition of the college football bowl game, and was played at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas on Saturday, January 2, 2010. The game featured the Michigan State Spartans against the Texas Tech Red Raiders.The 2010 game was the last one to feature a team from the Big Ten. In the fall of 2009, it was announced that the Pac-10 second-place team will take part in the Alamo Bowl instead of the Holiday Bowl which they currently participate in unless they qualify for the BCS. The Alamo Bowl will offer 2011 teams $3 million payouts, thus taking away a team from the Pac-10 and attracting higher-ranking teams from the Big 12. According to Bruce Binkowski, the Holiday's executive director, average ticket prices for the Holiday Bowl would have had to have been increased from $60 to $100 to match the Alamo Bowl's offer.This was the third Alamo Bowl appearance and first Alamo Bowl win for the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Their most recent previously appearance was a 19–16 loss to Iowa in the 2001 game. Michigan State played in one previous Alamo Bowl, losing the 2003 edition to Nebraska 17–3. The game also marked the first-ever meeting between the two schools.With approximately 5,553,630 households watching it, the game was the most viewed Alamo Bowl in history. It also drew the highest rating of any bowl ever shown by ESPN. Behind the BCS bowl games and the Capital One Bowl, it was the most viewed bowl shown up to that point in the 2009/10 bowl season.".