The 2007 Outback Bowl Game was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 2007, at Raymond James StadiuminTampa, Florida. It was part of the 2006–2007 bowl game season that concluded the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season. This was the 21st edition of the bowl game originally known as the Hall of Fame Bowl, later rebranded as the Outback Bowl through sponsorship from Outback Steakhouse. The game pitted the 18th-ranked Tennessee Volunteers against the unranked Penn State Nittany Lions[3] and was televised on ESPN.
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| 21st Outback Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
2007 Outback Bowl logo
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| Date | January 1, 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Raymond James Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Tampa, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Tony Hunt (Penn State RB) | ||||||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Charlie Daniels[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Jerry McGinn (Big East) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halftime show | University of Tennessee and Penn State University bands, 2007 National Outback Bowl Mass Band Show | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 65,601[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Mike Patrick, Todd Blackledge and Holly Rowe[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
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