Northern Illinois - Wolfe 50 yard touchdown run (Nendick kick), 1st 4:46 (3-73, 1:19).Troy - Richardson 23 yard touchdown pass from McDowell (Whibbs kick), 1st 6:05 (8-73, 2:51).Troy - McDowell 1 yard touchdown run (Whibbs kick), 1st 10:41 (9-78, 4:19).

Troy had never played in a bowl game before, having just moved up to Division I in 2001 and joined the Sun Belt in 2004.

Left without a WAC team, organizers turned to the Troy Trojans of the Sun Belt Conference. Although the SVC invited Fresno State back, the Bulldogs opted for the MPC Computers Bowl, where they would face #18-ranked Virginia from the ACC. Since the beginning of the bowl in 2000, the Fresno State Bulldogs represented the WAC. Organizers obtained permission from the Pac-10 to look elsewhere, and on November 16 announced an agreement with the Mid-American Conference, which had five bowl-eligible teams but as yet only two bowls. 6 team, but was displaced by the new Emerald Bowl and had to settle for No. In previous years the SVC had an agreement to take the Pac-10's No. Background įor the 2004 bowl season the Silicon Valley Classic had contractual tie-ins with the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) and the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) neither conference had enough bowl-eligible teams. It was the fifth and final time the Silicon Valley Football Classic was played and the final game of the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season for both teams.

The 2004 Silicon Valley Football Classic was a post-season college football bowl game between the Troy Trojans and the Northern Illinois Huskies on December 30, 2004, at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, California. College football game 2004 Silicon Valley Football Classic

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