Football to Return to America’s Crossroads Bowl

Truman football will face Tiffin University in the fifth America’s Crossroads Bowl at 1 p.m. Dec. 7 in Hobart, Indiana.

The Bulldogs enter the bowl game with a 7-4 record and finished in second place in the Great Lakes Valley Conference with a 6-2 mark. They won the tie-breaker against Upper Iowa by virtue of their 26-23 win, Oct. 5. Tiffin finished the regular season 8-3 and was 7-2 in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference.

This game will be a rematch of the 2022 bowl game in which Truman denied a two-point conversion with 46 seconds left to preserve a 28-27 win against the Dragons. The two schools played at each other’s campus in 2021 and 2022 with both of those games coming down to the wire.

In 2021, the Bulldogs scored twice in the final 3:29 to win 38-35 over the then No. 12-ranked Dragons.

In September 2022, Tiffin led 10-0, and later 10-7 with 2:27 left to play. The Bulldogs made a 39-yard field goal to tie the game, sending it to overtime, which led the Bulldogs to an 18-17 victory. Truman finished the regular season 8-2 while the Dragons were 6-4.

The bowl game is a partnership between the Great Lakes Valley Conference, Great Midwest Athletics Conference and the South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority. The first game took place in 2019 with Truman defeating Ohio Dominican. The Bulldogs were champions of the first three America’s Crossroads Bowl games. Last season, Ashland, Ohio, defeated McKendree for the GMAC’s first win in the game.

Fans will have the opportunity to attend a pre-game party at the Hobart Art Theater from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Tickets and other game information are available soon through the America’s Crossroads Bowl website.