List of Marshall Thundering Herd bowl games

The Marshall Thundering Herd college football team competes as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), representing the Marshall University in the Eastern Division of Conference USA (C-USA). Since the establishment of the team in 1895, Marshall has appeared in 13 bowl games.^[1] The latest bowl occurred on December 26, 2015, when Marshall defeated Connecticut 16–10 in the 2015 St. Petersburg Bowl. The victory in that game brought the Herd's overall bowl record to ten wins and three losses (10–3).^[2]

Key

General Bowl game record attendance Former bowl game record attendance

Results W Win L Loss

Bowl games

List of bowl games showing bowl played in, score, date, season, opponent, stadium, location, attendance, head coach and MVP^{[A 1]}

#	Bowl	Score[A 2]	Date	Season[A 3]	Opponent[A 4]	Stadium	Location	Attendance[3]	Head coach	MVP
1	Tangerine Bowl*	L 0–7	January 1, 1948	1947	Catawba Indians	Tangerine Bowl	Orlando	9,000	Henderson, CamCam Henderson	Don Gibson (End)
2	Motor City Bowl	L 31–34	December 26, 1997	1997	Ole Miss Rebels	Silverdome	Pontiac	43,340	Pruett, BobBob Pruett	–
3	Motor City Bowl	W 48–29	December 23, 1998	1998	Louisville Cardinals	Silverdome	Pontiac	38,016	Pruett, BobBob Pruett	Pennington, ChadChad Pennington (QB)
4	Motor City Bowl	W 21–3	December 27, 1999	1999	BYU Cougars	Silverdome	Pontiac	52,449	Pruett, BobBob Pruett	Chapman, DougDoug Chapman (RB)
5	Motor City Bowl	W 25–14	December 27, 2000	2000	Cincinnati Bearcats	Silverdome	Pontiac	52,911	Pruett, BobBob Pruett	Leftwich, ByronByron Leftwich (QB)
6	GMAC Bowl	W 64–61	December 19, 2001	2001	East Carolina Pirates	Ladd Peebles Stadium	Mobile	40,139	Pruett, BobBob Pruett	Leftwich, ByronByron Leftwich (QB)
7	GMAC Bowl	W 38–15	December 18, 2002	2002	Louisville Cardinals	Ladd Peebles Stadium	Mobile	40,646	Pruett, BobBob Pruett	Leftwich, ByronByron Leftwich (QB)
8	Fort Worth Bowl	L 14–32	December 23, 2004	2004	Cincinnati Bearcats	Amon G. Carter Stadium	Fort Worth	27,902	Pruett, BobBob Pruett	–
9	Little Caesars Pizza Bowl	W 21–17	December 26, 2009	2009	Ohio Bobcats	Ford Field	Detroit	30,331	Minter, RickRick Minter	Ward, MartinMartin Ward (RB)
10	Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl	W 20–10	December 20, 2011	2011	FIU Panthers	Tropicana Field	St. Petersburg	20,072	Holliday, DocDoc Holliday	Dobson, AaronAaron Dobson (WR)
11	Military Bowl	W 31–20	December 27, 2013	2013	Maryland Terrapins	Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium	Annapolis	30,163	Holliday, DocDoc Holliday	Cato, RakeemRakeem Cato (QB)
12	Boca Raton Bowl	W 52–23	December 23, 2014	2014	Northern Illinois Huskies	FAU Stadium	Boca Raton	29,419	Holliday, DocDoc Holliday	Cato, RakeemRakeem Cato (QB)
13	St. Petersburg Bowl	W 16–10	December 26, 2015	2015	Connecticut Huskies	Tropicana Field	St. Petersburg	14,652	Holliday, DocDoc Holliday	Deandre Reaves (WR)

• The Tangerine Bowl was not sanctioned by the NCAA until 1968.

Notes

1. Statistics correct as of 2015–16 NCAA football bowl games.
2. Results are sortable first by whether the result was a Marshall win, loss or tie and then second by the margin of victory.
3. Links to the season article for the Marshall team that competed in the bowl for that year.
4. Links to the season article for the opponent that Marshall competed against in the bowl for that year when available or to their general page when unavailable.

References

1. Bowl/All-Star Game Records, p. 20–21
2. College Football Data Warehouse. "Marshall Bowl History". Retrieved May 18, 2012.
3. Bowl/All-Star Game Records, pp. 32–38