Little Caesars Pizza Bowl (known as the Motor City Bowl until 2009) is a post-season college football bowl game certified by the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) that has been played annually since 1997. The first five games (1997–2001) were played at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan. Starting in 2002, the game was moved to 65,000-seat Ford Field in downtown Detroit, Michigan. Ford Field is home to the NFLs Detroit Lions, and played host to Super Bowl XL.

The Little Caesars Pizza Bowl features a bowl-eligible team from the Mid-American Conference (usually the winner of the MAC Championship Game, although that team is not required to accept the bid; prior to the formation of the bowl the MAC champion earned an automatic bid to the Las Vegas Bowl (Maaco Bowl Las Vegas)) playing a bowl-eligible team from the Big Ten Conference. If the Big Ten does not have an eligible team, the game will feature a team from the Big East (Big East Conference) that meets the NCAA requirement of at least six wins. In the event that the Big East does not have an available team, an at-large team can be chosen.

The game was jointly sponsored by the "Big Three" automakers in Detroit from 1998 to 2007 (Ford (Ford Motor Company), General Motors (General Motors Corporation) and Chrysler). Starting with the 2008 game, Chrysler was replaced by the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters and Millwrights as a presenting sponsor. In 2009, Little Caesars became the title sponsor of the game after General Motors and Chrysler reorganized under bankruptcy protection. Ford remained as a sponsor.

The then-named-Motor City Bowl marked the first bowl game held in the Detroit area since the Cherry Bowl in 1984–85. It is the only Division I college bowl game played in the Midwest United States.

The 2009 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl, played December 26, 2009, matched the Ohio Bobcats (2009 Ohio Bobcats football team) of the Mid-American Conference against the Marshall Thundering Herd (2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team) of Conference USA.

A bowl record crowd of 60,624 fans witnessed the 2007 bowl game (2007 Motor City Bowl) between the Purdue Boilermakers (2007 Purdue Boilermakers football team) and the Central Michigan Chippewas (Central_Michigan_Chippewas_football).

On April 12, 2010, it was announced that the Big Ten Conference has extended its affiliation with the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl (Big Ten No.8) through the 2013 season. Also the Sun Belt Conference and the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl have agreed to a secondary tie-in that will allow a Sun Belt Conference team to play in the Detroit based game should the Big Ten Conference not have an available bowl-eligible team to play.

The 2010 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl will be held at Ford Field in downtown Detroit on Sunday, December 26th 2010 8:30PM ESPN