Year Game Played: | 2007 |
Game Name: | Insight Bowl |
Football Season: | 2007 |
Visitor Name Short: | Indiana |
Visitor Nickname: | Hoosiers |
Visitor School: | University of Indiana |
Home Name Short: | Oklahoma State |
Home Nickname: | Cowboys |
Home School: | Oklahoma State University |
Visitor Record: | 7–5 |
Visitor Conference: | Big Ten |
Home Record: | 6–6 |
Home Conference: | Big 12 |
Visitor Coach: | Bill Lynch |
Home Coach: | Mike Gundy |
Visitor 1Q: | 3 |
Visitor 2Q: | 7 |
Visitor 3Q: | 7 |
Visitor 4Q: | 16 |
Home 1Q: | 21 |
Home 2Q: | 14 |
Home 3Q: | 7 |
Home 4Q: | 7 |
Date Game Played: | December 31 |
Stadium: | Sun Devil Stadium |
City: | Tempe, Arizona |
Mvp: | Offensive: OSU QB Zac Robinson Defensive: OSU S Donovan Woods |
Odds: | Oklahoma State by 4[1] |
Referee: | Jack Folliard (Pac-10) |
Payout: | 1.2 million per team[2] |
Us Network: | NFL Network |
Us Announcers Link: | List of announcers of major college bowl games |
Us Announcers: | Bob Papa, Sterling Sharpe and Mike Mayock |
The 2007 Insight Bowl, part of the 2007-08 NCAA football bowl games season, was played on December 31, 2007, at Sun Devil Stadium on the Arizona State University campus in Tempe, Arizona.
The opponents were the Indiana Hoosiers of the Big Ten Conference and the Oklahoma State Cowboys of the Big 12 Conference. This was the third straight year of the Big 10 and Big 12 tie-ins for this bowl game.
Both teams had tumultuous seasons. The Hoosiers' previous head coach, Terry Hoeppner, died in June 2007 and Bill Lynch took over the program. The season-long mantra was "Play 13," as in playing a 13th game, a bowl, after the 12-game regular season. (This is IU's first bowl since 1993.) Meanwhile, Cowboys head coach Mike Gundy became famous throughout North America for a tirade against a sportswriter for The Daily Oklahoman. The outburst was repeated many times on TV sportscasts and online. The Cowboys were 6–6 on the season and unranked nationally. Generally accepted as a disappointing year for the highly touted pre-season offense led by Zac Robinson who replaced Bobby Reid at the starting quarterback position early in the year.