1997 Insight.com Bowl

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| name =

| subheader = 9th Insight.com Bowl

| year_game_played = 1997

| game_name = Insight.com Bowl

| football_season = 1997

| visitor_name_short = New Mexico

| visitor_nickname = Lobos

| visitor_school = University of New Mexico

| home_name_short = Arizona

| home_nickname = Wildcats

| home_school = University of Arizona

| visitor_record = 9–3

| visitor_conference = WAC

| home_record = 6–5

| home_conference = Pac-10

| visitor_coach = Dennis Franchione

| home_coach = Dick Tomey

| visitor_1q = 0

| visitor_2q = 7

| visitor_3q = 7

| visitor_4q = 0

| home_1q = 7

| home_2q = 6

| home_3q = 7

| home_4q = 0

| date_game_played = December 27

| stadium = Arizona Stadium

| city = Tucson, Arizona

| referee = John Smith (Big East)

| attendance = 49,385

| us_network = ESPN

| us_announcers_link = List of announcers of major college bowl games

| us_announcers = Charley Steiner (play-by-play); Todd Christensen (analysis); Sean Salisbury (sidelines)

| different_previous = 1996

}}

The 1997 Insight.com Bowl was the ninth edition to the Insight.com Bowl, although the first played under that name. It featured the New Mexico Lobos and the Arizona Wildcats. It was a meeting of old Western Athletic Conference and Border Conference rivals.