| Game Name: | Pinstripe Bowl |
| Subheader: | 7th Pinstripe Bowl |
| Title Sponsor: | New Era |
| Date Game Played: | December 28 |
| Year Game Played: | 2016 |
| Football Season: | 2016 |
| Stadium: | Yankee Stadium |
| City: | Bronx, New York |
| Visitor School: | University of Pittsburgh |
| Visitor Name Short: | Pittsburgh |
| Visitor Nickname: | Panthers |
| Visitor Record: | 8–4 |
| Visitor Conference: | ACC |
| Visitor Rank Ap: | 22 |
| Visitor Rank Cfp: | 23 |
| Visitor Coach: | Pat Narduzzi |
| Visitor 1Q: | 3 |
| Visitor 2Q: | 7 |
| Visitor 3Q: | 7 |
| Visitor 4Q: | 7 |
| Home School: | Northwestern University |
| Home Name Short: | Northwestern |
| Home Nickname: | Wildcats |
| Home Record: | 6–6 |
| Home Conference: | Big Ten |
| Home Coach: | Pat Fitzgerald |
| Home 1Q: | 0 |
| Home 2Q: | 14 |
| Home 3Q: | 7 |
| Home 4Q: | 10 |
| Odds: | Pitt by 5[1] |
| Mvp: | Northwestern RB Justin Jackson[2] |
| Referee: | Dan Romeo (Big 12) |
| Attendance: | 37,918 |
| Payout: | 2,000,000 [3] |
| Us Network: | ESPN/ESPN Radio |
| Us Announcers: | TV: Ryan Ruocco, Mike Golic, Mike Golic Jr, Paul Caracaterra, Radio: Kevin Winter, Jack Ford, CJ Papa |
The 2016 Pinstripe Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 28, 2016 at Yankee Stadium in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The seventh edition of the Pinstripe Bowl featured the Pittsburgh Panthers of the Atlantic Coast Conference against the Northwestern Wildcats of the Big Ten Conference. It was one of the 2016–17 bowl games that concluded the 2016 FBS football season. Sponsored by the New Era Cap Company, the game was officially known as the New Era Pinstripe Bowl.
The game featured conference tie-ins from the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Big Ten Conference.
This was the seventh meeting between the schools, with the series previously tied at 3–3. The previous meeting of the two teams was on September 29, 1973, where the Panthers defeated the Wildcats by a score of 21–14.[4]
See also: 2016 Pittsburgh Panthers football team and 2016 Atlantic Coast Conference football season.
See also: 2016 Northwestern Wildcats football team and 2016 Big Ten Conference football season.
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