2011 Insight Bowl Preview

Date: December 30, 2011 10:00 PM ET

Stadium: Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe, Arizona

Payout: $3,350,000

Played: 1989-present

Former Names: Copper Bowl (1989-1996), Insight.com Bowl (1997-2001)

Broadcasters: Sean McDonough, Matt Millen

Sideline Reporter: Heather Cox

All Time Series: 1-0 Oklahoma

Line: Oklahoma by 13.5

	Iowa			Oklahoma
Overall Record	7-5		Overall Record	9-3
Conference Record	4-4		Conference Record	6-3
Bowl Record	14-10-1		Bowl Record	26-17-1
Last Bowl Win	2010 Insight		Last Bowl Win	2011 Fiesta

2010 Insight Bowl Preview

December 28, 2010 10:00 PM ET

Stadium: Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe, Arizona

Payout: $3,325,000

Played: 1989-present

Once known as: Copper Bowl (1989-1996), Insight.com Bowl (1997-2001)

Broadcasters: Sean McDonough, Matt Millen

Sideline Reporter: Heather Cox

Storyline: This will be the first meeting between Missouri and Iowa in a century. Missouri started the season outside the top 25, but finished #14 with a stellar 10-2 record, which included an upset of Oklahoma. Missouri dropped the Texas Bowl to Navy last year and is looking for postseason redemption. Missouri will have the third 11-win season in school history if it can win the Insight Bowl. In contrast, Iowa won the 2010 Orange Bowl and entered the season ranked #9 but finished outside the top 25. Iowa lost three of its last four games, including being shocked by both Northwestern and Minnesota. To make matters worse, Iowa receiver, Derrell Johnson-Koulianos, was found to be running a drug house after the end of the regular season and will not play. Iowa ruin the bowl. In addition, running back Adam Robinson broke team rules and will also not be making the trip. Iowa has itself handcuffed on offense and will lose the fourth of its last five games if it cannot adapt. The Hawkeyes need to win this bowl to save face. The Insight Bowl will be interesting in that teams heading in opposite directions will square off.

All-time Series: 7-5 Missouri
Line: Missouri by 2.5

	Missouri			Iowa
Overall Record	10-2		Overall Record	7-5
Conference Record	6-2		Conference Record	4-4
Bowl Record	12-15		Bowl Record	13-10-1
Last Bowl Win	2008 Alamo		Last Bowl Win	2010 Orange

Big Ten Home Attendance Figures

	Illinois			Indiana
Memorial Stadium			Memorial Stadium
S11 Southern Illinois	52,217		S2 Towson	35,242
S18 Northern Illinois	50,569		S25 Akron	42,258
O2 Ohio State	62,870		O2 Michigan	52,929
O23 Indiana	53,550		O16 Arkansas State	40,480
O30 Purdue	50,371		O30 Northwestern	37,818
N13 Minnesota	55,549		N6 Iowa	42,991
AVERAGE	54,188		AVERAGE	41,953
	Iowa			Michigan
Kinnick Stadium			Michigan Stadium
S4 Eastern Illinois	70,585		S4 Connecticut	113,090
S11 Iowa State	70,585		S18 Massachusetts	110,187
S25 Ball State	70,585		S25 Bowling Green	109,933
O2 Penn State	70,585		O9 Michigan State	113,065
O23 Wisconsin	70,585		O16 Iowa	112,784
O30 Michigan State	70,585		N6 Illinois	111,441
N20 Ohio State	70,585		N20 Wisconsin	112,276
AVERAGE	70,585		AVERAGE	111,825
	Michigan State			Minnesota
Spartan Stadium			TCF Bank Stadium
S4 Western Michigan	75,769		S11 South Dakota	49,554
S18 Notre Dame	78,411		S18 USC	50,442
S25 Northern Colorado	70,926		S25 Northern Illinois	49,368
O2 Wisconsin	73,108		O2 Northwestern	49,228
O16 Illinois	74,441		O23 Penn State	48,479
N6 Minnesota	71,128		O30 Ohio State	48,717
N20 Purdue	71,111		N27 Iowa	50,805
AVERAGE	73,556		AVERAGE	49,513
	Northwestern			Ohio State
Ross Field, Wrigley Field*			Ohio Stadium
S11 Illinois State	25,471		S2 Marshall	105,040
S25 Central Michigan	30,075		S11 Miami	105,454
O9 Purdue	33,847		S18 Ohio	105,075
O23 Michigan State	41,115		S25 Eastern Michigan	105,017
N13 Iowa	47,130		O9 Indiana	105,291
N20 Illinois*	41,058		O23 Purdue	105,387
			N13 Penn State	105,466
			N27 Michigan	105,491
AVERAGE	36,449		AVERAGE	105,278
	Penn State			Purdue
Beaver Stadium			Ross-Ade Stadium
S4 Youngstown State	101,213		S11 Western Illinois	47,301
S18 Kent State	100,610		S18 Ball State	54,124
S25 Temple	104,840		S25 Toledo	42,068
O9 Illinois	107,638		O16 Minnesota	47,319
O30 Michigan	108,539		N6 Wisconsin	45,227
N6 Northwestern	104,147		N13 Michigan	50,268
N27 Michigan State	102,649		N27 Indiana	50,136
AVERAGE	104,234		AVERAGE	48,063
	Wisconsin
Camp Randall Stadium
S11 San Jose State	78,469
S18 Arizona State	81,332
S25 Austin Peay	77,224
O9 Minnesota	80,328
O16 Ohio State	81,194
N13 Indiana	80,477
N27 Northwestern	80,011
AVERAGE	79,862

AVERAGE ATTENDANCE BY SCHOOL

Michigan	111,825
Ohio State	105,278
Penn State	104,234
Wisconsin	79,862
Michigan State	73,556
Iowa	70,585
Illinois	54,188
Minnesota	49,513
Purdue	48,063
Indiana	41,953
Northwestern	36,449

Home Game Attendance

Over the next two weeks I will be releasing teams' home attendance figures for 2010 by conference.

Here is the schedule for these postings:
12/18 Atlantic Coast
12/19 Big 12
12/20 Big East
12/21 Big Ten
12/22 Pacific 10
12/23 Southeastern
12/24 Independents
12/25 Conference USA
12/26 Mid-America
12/27 Mountain West
12/28 Sun Belt
12/29 Western Athletic

Official NCAA attendance figures will not be made available until late February, so enjoy perusing these numbers early. Links to these postings will be put up on the page in the sidebar entitled 2010 Home Attendance.

A few sidenotes to keep in mind when perusing these numbers in the coming days:

1. Each FBS team must play five home games. One of those five home games is allowed to be played at site that is not the school's home stadium.
2. Arkansas played a home game November 27th at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, Arkansas.
3. Northwestern played a home game November 20th at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois.
4. Rice played a home game September 4th at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas.
5. Florida Atlantic played a home game September 11th at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan.
6. Louisiana-Monroe played a home game September 11th at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, Arkansas.
7. Virginia Tech, Iowa, Alabama, Auburn, and Georgia apparently don't use turnstile counts, but rather the stadiums capacity for sellouts. The same figure gets recycled over and over.
8. Clemson and North Carolina round their attendence figures to the nearest 500.
9. The Conference USA plays its championship game at the home stadium of the division winner with the better regular season record. In the case of 2010, Central Florida was the host of the championship game, and therefore tallied another home game.
10. By chance, three teams will be playing bowl games in their home stadium. Since these are postseason games, organized by an outside committee and not by the university that happens to be playing in its home stadium, they do not count as home games.