FBA 2018 Media Guide FLIP (2)

Dollar General Bowl
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Battleship USS Alabama Team Luncheon Battleship Memorial Park 11:00 am
Friday, December 21, 2018
Official Press Conference Mobile Convention Center 10:15 am
Dollar General Bowl Mayor’s Lunch Mobile Convention Center 12pm
Greer’s/This is Alabama Mardi Gras Parade Downtown Mobile 6:30 pm
This is Alabama Pep Rally/ Street Party Downtown Mobile 7:30 pm
Saturday, December 22, 2018
Dollar General Bowl Ladd-Peebles Stadium 6 p.m. (CST)
Spectronics Fireworks Show Post Game TBD
Designated team hotels:
MAC – Mobile Marriott Sun Belt – Renaissance Riverview Plaza
3101 Airport Boulevard 64 S. Water Street
Mobile, AL 36606 Mobile, AL 36602
Contact: Shaun Wallace
Contact: Cadi Mills
251-476-6400 251-438-4000
Shaun.wallace@marriot.com
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Cadi.mills@
renaissancemobile.com
Designated media hotel:
Renaissance Riverview Plaza 251-438-4000
64 S. Water Street Contact: Cadi Mills
Mobile, AL 36602
cadi.mills@renaissancemobile.com
Local airport: Mobile Regional Airport (iflymo.com); Delta, United, U.S. Airways,
American
Also available: Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport, Pensacola International Airport
Local tourism bureau: Mobile Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau, 1 South Water
Street, 4th Floor, Mobile, AL 36602, David Randel, president, 251-208-2000, www.
mobile.org
Prominent area tourist attractions:
Bellingrath Gardens & Home, USS Alabama Battleship, Mobile Museum of Art,
Exploreum Gulf Coast Museum, Fort Conde
DIRECTIONS
>From main arrival airport to stadium:
Exit out of airport and turn left onto Airport Blvd., travel approximately 9.6 miles and
make a slight right onto Old Government, turn right onto Houston Street, turn left
onto Virginia Street and Ladd-Peebles Stadium will be on the right.
>From main arrival airport to media hotel:
Exit out of airport and turn left onto Airport Blvd., travel approximately 6.8 miles and
merge onto I-65 South, go three miles and merge onto I-10 East toward Florida, to
approximately 6.4 miles and take Exit 26A to Water Street, take a left on Government
St., take a right on Royal St. and the Renaissance Riverview Plaza Hotel will be on the
right.
>From media hotel to stadium:
Proceed west on Government Street and go 1.8 miles, turn left (south) on Michigan
Ave. and go 0.6 miles, turn right on Virginia Street and go 0.5 miles. Ladd-Peebles
Stadium will be on the right.
Other Trivia:
- For six straight years, a head coach was hired away from a school playing in the
Dollar General Bowl following the regular season and before the bowl game. Brady
Hoke left Ball State for San Diego State in 2009, Butch Jones left Central Michigan
for Cincinnati in 2010, Mike Haywood left Miami (Ohio) for Pittsburgh in 2011, and
Hugh Freeze left Arkansas State for Mississippi in 2012. Darrell Hazell accepted the
head job at Purdue but remained at Kent State until after the 2013 game, and two
years ago Bryan Harsin left Arkansas State for Boise State prior to the bowl game.
-TCU’s LaDainian Tomlinson played in the first two bowl games (then known as the
Mobile Alabama Bowl). In those games, the former San Diego Chargers star had 64
carries for 242 yards and four touchdowns, including leading TCU to a 28-14 win
over East Carolina in the bowl’s inaugural game in 1999.
-Tulsa’s 63-7 win over Bowling Green in 2008 is the largest margin of victory in
Division I bowl history, topping the 55-point margin of Alabama over Syracuse in the
1953 Orange Bowl. During that game, Tulsa became the first team in NCAA history
with a 5,000-yard passer, a 1,000-yard rusher and three 1,000-yard receivers with QB
Paul Smith and WR Charles Clay reaching those marks during the game.
Major Media in the area:
Mobile Press-Register
WEAR-TV 3 (ABC)
www.al.com
WKRG-TV 5 (CBS)
WNSP 105.5 Sports Radio
WALA-TV 10 (Fox)
FM Talk 106.5 Radio
WPMI-TV 15 (NBC)