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The 2011 AutoZone Liberty Bowl, the 53rd edition of the game, was a post-season American college football bowl game, held on December 31, 2011 at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee as part of the 2011–12 NCAA Bowl season. The game, which was telecast at 2:30 p.m. CT on ABC, featured the Cincinnati Bearcats, Big East co-champions, versus the Vanderbilt Commodores of the SEC.〔 It was the first edition of the game to be aired by ABC since 1980. The Cincinnati Bearcats won the game, by a final score of 31-24, in front of a crowd of 57,103.〔 ==Teams== After finishing the 2011 season with six wins and six losses, the Vanderbilt Commodores ended in fourth place in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) East Division. They were chosen as the SEC representative to the Liberty Bowl. The Commodores' roster included junior-year quarterback Jordan Rodgers, the younger brother of Green Bay Packers' Super Bowl-winning quarterback Aaron Rodgers. The Cincinnati Bearcats ended the regular season with nine wins and three losses and were co-champions of the Big East Conference. Cincinnati was chosen as part of the alternate Big East tie-in with the Liberty Bowl in place of the Conference USA champions. The Bearcats' squad included Ralph Abernathy IV, grandson of civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy. In the 2011 season, both teams had beaten Connecticut. Vanderbilt won 24-21 at home in the second game of their season. Cincinnati won 35-27 at home in their final regular-season game. Both teams also lost to Tennessee. Vanderbilt dropped their second-to-last game on the road to the Volunteers by a score of 21-27. Cincinnati's loss was also in Knoxville by a score of 23-45 in the second game of their season.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2011 Liberty Bowl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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