2006 Holiday Bowl

2006 Pacific Life Holiday Bowl

Holiday Bowl logo

(9–3)

Head coach:
Dennis Franchione

Head coach:
Jeff Tedford

AP	Coaches	BCS
21	21	21

AP	Coaches	BCS
20	19	18

	1	2	3	4	Total
Texas A&M	7	3	0	0	10
California	7	7	14	17	45

Date

December 28, 2006

Season

Stadium

Location

MVP

Co-Offensive: Marshawn Lynch (Cal)
Co-Offensive: Nate Longshore (Cal)
Defensive: Desmond Bishop (Cal)

Attendance

62,395^[1]

Payout

US$2,334,186 per team^[1]

The 2006 Pacific Life Holiday Bowl was a college football bowl game played December 28, 2006 in San Diego, California. It was part of the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season and one of 32 games in the 2006-2007 bowl season. It featured the Texas A&M Aggies representing the Big 12 against the California Golden Bears from the Pac-10. In the Golden Bears' second trip to the Holiday Bowl in three years, they routed the Aggies, 45-10. Each conference received $2.2 million for the teams playing.

References

2006–07 NCAA football bowl game season

Poinsettia (Dec. 19) Las Vegas (Dec. 21) New Orleans (Dec. 22) PapaJohns.com (Dec. 23) New Mexico (Dec. 23) Armed Forces (Dec. 23) Hawai'i (Dec. 24) Motor City (Dec. 26) Emerald (Dec. 27) Holiday (Dec. 28) Independence (Dec. 28) Texas (Dec. 28) Music City (Dec. 29) Sun (Dec. 29) Liberty (Dec. 29) Insight (Dec. 29) Champs Sports (Dec. 29) Meineke Car Care (Dec. 30) Alamo (Dec. 30) Chick-fil-A (Dec. 30) MPC Computers (Dec. 31) Outback (Jan. 1) Cotton (Jan. 1) Gator (Jan. 1) Capital One (Jan. 1) International (Jan. 6) GMAC (Jan. 7)

Bowl Championship Series games: Rose (Jan. 1) Fiesta (Jan. 1) Orange (Jan. 2) Sugar (Jan. 3) BCS National Championship (Jan. 8)

All-Star Games: North-South All-Star Classic (Jan. 13) Hula Bowl (Jan. 14) East–West Shrine Game (Jan. 20) Senior Bowl (Jan. 27) Texas vs. The Nation Game (Feb. 2)

Holiday Bowl

History & conference tie-ins	History Qualcomm Stadium Broadcasters Big Ten Conference Pac-12 Conference

Games	1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Notes	The 1984 game is the only time that the eventual national champion played its bowl game in December.

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