Who was the interim coach of the team that won the 17th iteration of the Alamo Bowl?
Ruffin McNeill
2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team
The 2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
 The team was coached by Mike Leach during the regular season, and was coached by interim head coach Ruffin McNeill during the 2010 Valero Alamo Bowl.
 The Red Raiders played their home games at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas.
 The football team competed in the Division I NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision.
 The Red Raiders finished the season 9–4, 5–3 in Big 12 play and won the Valero Alamo Bowl 41–31 against Michigan State.
2010 Alamo Bowl (January)
The 2010 Alamo Bowl (known via corporate sponsorship as the Valero Alamo Bowl) was a college football bowl game played at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas on Saturday, January 2, 2010.
 It was the 17th edition of the Alamo Bowl.
 The game featured the Michigan State Spartans against the Texas Tech Red Raiders.
Larry Davis (basketball)
Larry Davis (June 3, 1956) is an assistant coach men's basketball coach at the University of Cincinnati.
 Davis temporarily served as interim coach for the final 25 games of the 2014-15 team while head coach Mick Cronin was sidelined with a health issue.
 The Bearcats went 16-9 during the regular season with a 23-11 mark at season’s end, finishing tied for third place in the American Athletic Conference and the school’s fifth consecutive appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
 Davis was the first interim coach at the NCAA tournament since Missouri’s Rich Daly and Michigan’s Steve Fisher in 1989.
 He also became the first non-head coach to lead a team through multiple games of a regular season and into the NCAA tournament since 1961 (Jake McCandless at Princeton). 2005 Alamo Bowl
The 2005 Alamo Bowl was a college football bowl game held on December 28, 2005 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
 It was the 13th Alamo Bowl.
 The Nebraska Cornhuskers, second-place finishers in the Big 12 Conference's North Division, defeated the Michigan Wolverines, third-placed finishers in the Big Ten Conference.
 This matchup was notable in that it featured the two schools that shared the 1997 national championship.
 At the time, Michigan and Nebraska were two of only five schools in NCAA Division I history with 800 or more victories. 2003 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
The 2003 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the 2003 NCAA Division I-A football season.
 The team was coached by Frank Solich and played their home games in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.
 After the Colorado game, Solich was fired as head coach.
 Defensive coordinator Bo Pelini served as interim head coach for the Alamo Bowl. 2007 UCLA Bruins football team
The 2007 UCLA Bruins football team represented the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
 They played their home games at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California and were coached by Karl Dorrell for the regular season.
 It was Dorrell's fifth, and final season as the UCLA head coach.
 UCLA's season was marked by numerous injures, particularly at quarterback.
 Original starting quarterback Ben Olson injured his knee early in the season and missed over four games.
 Backup quarterback Patrick Cowan also suffered a knee injury but returned for two more games before suffering a collapsed lung against Arizona.
 Coach Karl Dorrell was fired following the loss in the 77th UCLA-USC rivalry football game, the final regular season game for the Bruins.
 Defensive coordinator DeWayne Walker became the interim coach for the 2007 Las Vegas Bowl, in which the Bruins lost to BYU, 17–16.
 The Bruins finished 6–7 overall, 5–4 in the Pacific-10 Conference, where they were tied for fourth place. 2010 Alamo Bowl (December)
The 2010 Valero Alamo Bowl game was the 18th edition of the annual college football bowl game known previously as the Alamo Bowl.
 It was played on December 29, 2010 (9:15 p.m. ET) between the Arizona Wildcats and the Oklahoma State Cowboys.
 ESPN television broadcast the game. 2008 Alamo Bowl
The 2008 Valero Alamo Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 29, 2008 in the 65,000-seat Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, and televised nationally by ESPN.
 The game was one of the 2008–09 NCAA football bowl games that concluded the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
 The 2008 Alamo Bowl was the 16th annual edition of the contest and the second to be sponsored by Valero Energy Corporation.
 The game pit the Missouri Tigers (9–4) against the Northwestern Wildcats (9–3).
 The 2008 game was dubbed the Journalism Bowl by some in the media, owing to the nationally recognized journalism programs at each school: the Missouri School of Journalism and the Medill School of Journalism. 2007 Alamo Bowl
The 2007 Valero Alamo Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 29, 2007 in the 65,000-seat Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, and nationally televised by ESPN.
 The game was one of the 2007–08 NCAA football bowl games that concluded the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
 It was the 15th Alamo Bowl and the first Alamo Bowl sponsored by the Valero Energy Corporation. 2016 Alamo Bowl (December)
The 2016 Alamo Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game, played on December 29, 2016 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
 The game featured the Oklahoma State Cowboys, of the Big 12 Conference, and the Colorado Buffaloes, of the Pac-12 Conference.
 It was the two teams' first meeting since 2009 and the first since Colorado's departure from the Big 12 Conference in 2011.
 The game was the 24th edition of the Alamo Bowl and was sponsored by the San Antonio-based company, Valero Energy.