The 2018 First Responder Bowl was a
college football
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Unlike most ...
bowl game
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scheduled for December 26, 2018, at the
Cotton Bowl Stadium
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The Cotton Bowl was the longtime home of the annual college football p ...
in
Dallas
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. It was one of the
2018–19 bowl games concluding the
2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by
Servpro
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, a franchisor of fire and water cleanup and restoration, the game was officially known as the Servpro First Responder Bowl. The ninth overall staging of the bowl, this was the first edition since being rebranded; its prior six editions were the Heart of Dallas Bowl, preceded by the TicketCity Bowl in its first two stagings.
The game was delayed in the first quarter, after Boston College took a 7–0 lead, and went into a weather delay due to lightning. Repeated lightning strikes near the stadium forced further delays; under NCAA rules, any lightning within of a stadium triggers a mandatory 30-minute delay, and the delay is extended with additional strikes. The game was canceled about two hours later amid forecasts that the severe weather would continue throughout the day and night. The game is considered a no-contest for the teams involved.
This is believed to be the first postseason game at the FBS-level (or its predecessors) that was canceled due to weather. NCAA records reflect only two prior postseason cancellations—a 1941 charity game between
San Jose State
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and
Hawaii
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that was canceled following the
attack on Pearl Harbor
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; and a 2013
Division II game, the
C.H.A.M.P.S. Heart of Texas Bowl
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The first and older of the two HOT Bowls, which has been played since 2001, features two comm ...
, between
Ouachita Baptist and
Tarleton State that was canceled due to severe winter weather.
Teams
Bowl organizers had intended to invite teams from the
Big Ten Conference
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and
Conference USA
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, based on conference tie-ins. However,
Boise State from the
Mountain West Conference
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and
Boston College
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from the
Atlantic Coast Conference
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(ACC) were selected,
based on the
bowl eligibility
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...
of teams and other bowl assignments.
This would have been the second all-time meeting between the two schools, with the previous meeting also coming in a bowl game. Boston College defeated Boise State in the
2005 MPC Computers Bowl, 27–21, on Boise State's home field of
Bronco Stadium
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(now known as
Albertsons Stadium
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).
Boston College Eagles
Boston College received and accepted a bid to the First Responder Bowl on December 2.
[ The Eagles entered the bowl with a 7–5 record (4–4 in conference).
]
Boise State Broncos
Boise State was defeated in the 2018 Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game
The 2018 Mountain West Conference Championship Game was played on Saturday, December 1, 2018, at Albertsons Stadium in Boise, Idaho, to determine the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, 2018 college football, football champion of the Mountai ...
on December 1, then received and accepted a bid to the First Responder Bowl on December 2.[ The Broncos entered the bowl with a 10–3 record (7–1 in conference).
]
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