2016 Pinstripe Bowl
The 2016 Pinstripe Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 28, 2016 at Yankee Stadium in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The seventh edition of the Pinstripe Bowl featured the [2016 Pittsburgh 1973 Pittsburgh Panthers football team|Panthers football team|Pittsburgh Panthers] of the Atlantic Coast Conference against the [2016 Northwestern 1973 Northwestern Wildcats football team|Wildcats football team|Northwestern Wildcats] of the Big Ten Conference. It was one of the 2016–17 bowl games that concluded the 2016 FBS football season. Sponsored by the New Era Cap Company, the game was officially known as the New Era Pinstripe Bowl.
Teams selected
The game featured conference tie-ins from the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Big Ten Conference.This was the seventh meeting between the schools, with the series previously tied at 3–3. The previous meeting of the two teams was on September 29, 1973, where the Panthers defeated the Wildcats by a score of 21–14.
Game summary
Scoring summary
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