History
For its first four years, the Humanitarian Bowl offered an automatic bid to the Big West Conference champion, after that conference lost its contract with the Las Vegas Bowl. From 1997 to 1999, the opponent was a team from Conference USA, while in 2000 an at-large was chosen. Following the 2000 Humanitarian Bowl, the Big West Conference discontinued football and the automatic bid went to the WAC, where it remains to this day. Conference-USA's automatic bid went to the ACC from 2001 through 2008. After the bowl's contract with the ACC ended in 2008, the automatic bid went to the Mountain West Conference in 2009, although they did not fill the slot. The MAC replaces the Mountain West Conference after the folding of the Toronto-based International Bowl. With Boise State moving to the Mountain West Conference in 2011, the bowl tie-ins may eventually change yet again.
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