Editing Alamodome (section)

====Alamo Bowl====
The Alamodome is the site of the annual [[Alamo Bowl]], which matches the second-choice teams from the [[Pac-12 Conference]] and the [[Big 12 Conference]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.valeroalamobowl.com/main/about_bowl_history.php |title=Valero Alamo Bowl - Bowl History |access-date=2012-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121128175908/http://www.valeroalamobowl.com/main/about_bowl_history.php |archive-date=2012-11-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[2006 Alamo Bowl]] between the [[2006 Texas Longhorns football team|Texas Longhorns]] and the [[2006 Iowa Hawkeyes football team|Iowa Hawkeyes]] was attended by 65,875, which set a facility-record crowd for a sporting event,<ref name=2006_alamobowl>[http://www.alamobowl.com/media/pressrelease.php?uid=144 2006 Alamo Bowl attendance ranks as the #1 all-time sports attendance in Alamodome history] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928161316/http://www.alamobowl.com/media/pressrelease.php?uid=144 |date=2007-09-28 }}, The San Antonio Bowl Association, December 30, 2006.</ref><ref name="Texas survives">{{cite news |title=Texas Survives the Alamo|url=http://www.statesman.com/sports/content/sports/stories/longhorns/12/31/31texfoot.html|newspaper=[[Austin American-Statesman]]|date=December 30, 2006|access-date=December 30, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070121211249/http://www.statesman.com/sports/content/sports/stories/longhorns/12/31/31texfoot.html|archive-date=January 21, 2007}}</ref><ref name="Alamo Crowd record">{{cite news|title=Alamo Bowl Crowd Sets Alamodome Record |url=http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/longhorns/entries/2006/12/30/alamo_bowl_crowd_sets_alamodome_record.html |newspaper=[[Austin American-Statesman]] |date=December 30, 2006 |access-date=December 30, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929121309/http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/longhorns/entries/2006/12/30/alamo_bowl_crowd_sets_alamodome_record.html |archive-date=September 29, 2007 }}</ref> only to have that record broken by an Alamo Bowl event the next year between [[Texas A&M University|Texas A&M]] and [[Penn State]], which drew 66,166 attendees.<ref name=AB2007>http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/big12/stories/MYSA123007.01C.AlamoBowlLead.en.2ff528d.html {{dead link|date=November 2021}}</ref>