2013 BBVA Compass Bowl

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{{Infobox NCAA football yearly game

| game_name = BBVA Compass Bowl

| subheader =

| title_sponsor =

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| date_game_played = January 5

| year_game_played = 2013

| football_season = 2012

| stadium = Legion Field

| city = Birmingham, Alabama

| visitor_school = University of Pittsburgh

| visitor_name_short = Pittsburgh

| visitor_nickname = Panthers

| visitor_record = 6–6

| visitor_coach = Paul Chryst

| visitor_conference = Big East

| visitor_1q = 0

| visitor_2q = 10

| visitor_3q = 0

| visitor_4q = 7

| visitor_ot =

| visitor_2ot =

| home_school = University of Mississippi

| home_name_short = Ole Miss

| home_nickname = Rebels

| home_record = 6–6

| home_coach = Hugh Freeze

| home_conference = SEC

| home_1q = 14

| home_2q = 10

| home_3q = 7

| home_4q = 7

| home_ot =

| home_2ot =

| odds = Ole Miss by 3½Bowl Schedule, Los Angeles Times, January 4, 2013

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| referee = Reggie Smith (Big 12)

| halftime =

| attendance = 59,135 (BBVA Compass Bowl Record)

| payout = 1 million (SEC); $900,000 (Big East){{cite news |title=ESPN develops new financial model for BBVA Compass Bowl |first=Jon |last=Solomon |url=http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2010/11/espn_develops_new_financial_mo.html |newspaper=The Birmingham News |date=November 5, 2010 |access-date=December 15, 2011}}

| us_network = ESPN

| us_announcers = Eamon McAnaney (play-by-play), David Diaz-Infante (analyst) and Paul Carcaterra (sideline reporter)

| ratings =

}}

The 2013 BBVA Compass Bowl, the seventh edition of the game, was a post-season American college football bowl game, held on January 5, 2013, at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama as part of the 2012–13 NCAA Bowl season. The game, which was telecasted at 12:00 p.m. CT on ESPN, featured the University of Pittsburgh Panthers of the Big East Conference versus the University of Mississippi Rebels of the Southeastern Conference. This was Pittsburgh's third consecutive appearance in the game, as well as its final game as a member of the Big East before they join the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2013.{{cite news |title=Pitt football heads to Alabama for third BBVA Compass Bowl in a row |first=Sam |last=Werner |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sports/pitt-big-east/pitt-football-heads-to-alabama-for-third-bbva-compass-bowl-in-a-row-664640/ |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=December 3, 2012 |access-date=December 3, 2012}} The announced attendance for the game was a BBVA Compass Bowl record 59,135, eclipsing the previous attendance record of 42,610 in the 2010 edition.{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=330050145|title = Pittsburgh vs. Ole Miss - Game Recap - January 5, 2013 - ESPN}} The University of Mississippi defeated the University of Pittsburgh 38–17.