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Line 50: }} The '''2005 [[Sheraton Hotels and Resorts\|Sheraton]] Hawaii Bowl''' matched the [[2005 UCF Knights football team\|UCF Knights]] against the [[2005 Nevada Wolf Pack football team\|Nevada Wolf Pack]]. The fourth edition of the Hawaii Bowl was held in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]], and featured the WAC champions versus the Conference USA ~~runner~~runners-~~ups~~up. UCF was one of the nation's best stories of the season. They had gone 0-11 the previous season, and were in the midst of a 17-game losing streak the previous season. The official attendance of 16,134 set a low mark among post-season FBS bowl games that, as of 2013, has not been passed.<ref name="smallest crowd">{{cite news\|last=Solomon\|first=Jon\|title=Military Bowl reports college football's smallest bowl crowd in 7 years\|url=http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/12/military_bowl_reports_college.html\|accessdate=December 28, 2012\|newspaper=AL.com\|date=December 28, 2012}}</ref> They accomplished one of the biggest turnarounds in NCAA history. After starting the season 0-2, they won eight of their next nine games to make it to the Conference USA championship game. At 8-3, and 7-1 in Conference USA, they lost to Tulsa in the championship game to fall to 8-4.

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