1999 Oahu Bowl
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| 1999 Jeep Oahu Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 25, 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Aloha Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Honolulu, Hawaii | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Oregon State by 9 points[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | R.G. Detillier (C-USA) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 40,974 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$750,000 per team[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Steve Levy, Todd Christensen, and Larry Biel | ||||||||||||||||||
The 1999 Jeep Oahu Bowl was a college football bowl game, played as part of the bowl game schedule of the 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season. The second edition of the Oahu Bowl, it was the latter part of a Christmas Day doubleheader at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, preceded by the Aloha Bowl. Televised by ESPN, the game on December 25 matched the Hawaiʻi Warriors, co-champions of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), and the favored Oregon State Beavers of the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10), who were making their first bowl game appearance in 35 years.[3]
Tied at ten at halftime, Hawaiʻi scored thirteen straight points to win 23–17 and finished the season at 9–4; the Beavers fell to 7–5.[4][5][6] The victory capped one of the most memorable seasons in school history as Hawaiʻi had seen an improvement of nine wins over the previous winless season in 1998.[7]
