The 2000 Jeep

Oahu Bowl The Oahu Bowl was a National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Bowl Subdivision (then known as Division I-A) bowl game played in Honolulu, Hawaii at Aloha Stadium. Played on Christmas Day or Christmas Eve, the Oahu Bowl was sponsored by the ...

was a college football

bowl game In North America, a bowl game is one of a number of post-season college football games that are primarily played by teams belonging to the NCAA's Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). For most of its history, the Division I Bowl Subdivi ...

, played as part of the 2000–01 bowl game schedule of the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the 3rd and final game named

, and became the

Seattle Bowl The Seattle Bowl was a college football bowl game played in 2001 and 2002 between teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Pacific-10 Conference in Seattle. This bowl game was a continuation of the Oahu Bowl which had moved to Seattle ...

for the 2001 contest. (It was later shut down after 2 years as the Seattle Bowl.) The game was played on December 24, 2000, at Aloha Stadium in

Honolulu Honolulu (; ) is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean. It is an unincorporated county seat of the consolidated City and County of Honolulu, situated along the southeast coast of the island ...

Hawaii Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state ...

. The game matched the Georgia Bulldogs against the Virginia Cavaliers, and was televised on

ESPN ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). Th ...

. The 24th ranked Georgia Bulldogs won the game, 37–14. The game marked the final game as head coach for

Jim Donnan James Mason Donnan III (born January 29, 1945) is a former American football player and coach and now a television analyst for college football and a Motivational speaking, motivational speaker. He served as the head football coach at Marshall ...

of Georgia and George Welsh of Virginia, both of whom retired from head coaching after the season.

References

External links

Box score and scoring summary of game via CNNSI.comRecap of game via CNNSI.com

Oahu Bowl Georgia Bulldogs football bowl games Virginia Cavaliers football bowl games

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