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2012 BBVA Compass Bowl

Field	Value
game_name	BBVA Compass Bowl
date_game_played	January 7
year_game_played	2012
football_season	2011
stadium	Legion Field
city	Birmingham, Alabama
visitor_school	[2011 SMU Mustangs football team](2011-smu-mustangs-football-team)
visitor_name_short	SMU
visitor_nickname	Mustangs
visitor_record	7–5
visitor_coach	June Jones
visitor_conference	C-USA
visitor_1q	21
visitor_2q	0
visitor_3q	7
visitor_4q	0
home_school	[2011 Pittsburgh Panthers football team](2011-pittsburgh-panthers-football-team)
home_name_short	Pittsburgh
home_nickname	Panthers
home_record	6–6
home_coach	Keith Patterson
(interim)
home_conference	Big East
home_1q	0
home_2q	3
home_3q	3
home_4q	0
odds	Pittsburgh by 5
MVP	Darius Johnson (SMU)
referee	Dan Romeo (Big 12)
attendance	29,726
payout	1 million (SEC); $900,000 (Big East)
us_network	ESPN
us_announcers	Mike Gleason (Play-by-Play)
John Congemi (Analyst)
Eamon McAnaney (Sidelines)
ratings	1.49

(interim) John Congemi (Analyst) Eamon McAnaney (Sidelines)

The 2012 BBVA Compass Bowl, the sixth edition of the game, was a post-season American college football bowl game, held on January 7, 2012, at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama, as part of the 2011–12 NCAA Bowl season. The game, which was telecast at 12:00 p.m. CT on ESPN, featured the SMU Mustangs of Conference USA versus the Pittsburgh Panthers of the Big East Conference. This was Pittsburgh's second consecutive appearance in the game, and just as in the previous contest the Panthers were led by an interim head coach, Keith Patterson, after Todd Graham resigned on December 13, 2011.

Teams

Pittsburgh and SMU met for the first time in 29 years in this BBVA Compass Bowl, which normally pairs a Big East conference team against a team from the Southeastern Conference. The SEC conference did not have enough bowl-eligible teams this season and the SMU football team was selected by the organizers to play in the bowl. Pittsburgh and SMU had met five times previously, the last time at the 1983 Cotton Bowl on New Year's Day, when the Mustangs won 7–3.

Pittsburgh

SMU

References

Bowl Schedule, ''Los Angeles Times'', December 7, 2011
Final Game Book, BBVA Compass Bowl, January 7, 2012
Solomon, Jon. (November 5, 2010). "ESPN develops new financial model for BBVA Compass Bowl". The Birmingham News.
Zeise, Paul. (December 15, 2011). "Graham leaves Pitt for Arizona State". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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