Jun 6, 2017Famous Idaho Potato Bowl to kickoff Dec. 22
The Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) has announced that the 21st Annual Famous Idaho Potato Bowl will kickoff on Friday, Dec. 22, at 2 p.m. MST/4 p.m. EST at Boise State University’s Albertsons Stadium and will be aired live on ESPN.
In its seventh year as the naming sponsor of its cold-weather college football bowl game, IPC is looking forward to another matchup between the Mountain West and Mid-American Conferences. Last year, in the highest scoring bowl game of the season and the third highest scoring game in bowl history, the University of Idaho Vandals defeated the Colorado State Rams (61-50). Close to 25,000 fans cheered on the teams, while 1.1 million viewers (an increase of 6 percent over 2015) watched the game indoors on ESPN.
“The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl has proven to be an extremely effective sponsorship allowing the entire Idaho potato industry to get involved and support Idaho’s most important agricultural crop, which generates more than $4.5 billion in annual revenue and employs more than 30,000 people,” said Frank Muir, president and CEO, IPC. “With the excellent time-slot and the myriad of family activities scheduled to take place, including Simplot’s French Fry Feed, we’re confident attendance and viewership of the game will be higher than ever.”
This game on Friday, Dec. 22, will be one of two matchups that afternoon with the Bahamas Bowl kicking off earlier in the day at 12:30 p.m. MST/2:30 p.m. EST.
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl tickets will go on sale to the general public in September through Boisestatetickets.com and Albertsons Stadium ticket office. For premium ticket packages and sponsorship information contact the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl office at (208) 424-1011.
The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl is one of 13 owned and operated bowl games by ESPN Events, a division of ESPN.
