| Game Name: | Holiday Bowl |
| Subheader: | 37th Holiday Bowl Game |
| Title Sponsor: | National University |
| Date Game Played: | December 27 |
| Year Game Played: | 2014 |
| Football Season: | 2014 |
| Stadium: | Qualcomm Stadium |
| City: | San Diego, California |
| Visitor Name Short: | Nebraska |
| Visitor Nickname: | Cornhuskers |
| Visitor Record: | 9–3 |
| Visitor Conference: | Big Ten |
| Visitor Rank Ap: | 25 |
| Visitor Rank Coaches: | 22 |
| Visitor Coach: | Barney Cotton (interim) |
| Visitor 1Q: | 17 |
| Visitor 2Q: | 0 |
| Visitor 3Q: | 17 |
| Visitor 4Q: | 8 |
| Home Name Short: | USC |
| Home Nickname: | Trojans |
| Home Record: | 8–4 |
| Home Conference: | Pac-12 |
| Home Rank Ap: | 24 |
| Home Rank Cfp: | 24 |
| Home Coach: | Steve Sarkisian |
| Home 1Q: | 10 |
| Home 2Q: | 14 |
| Home 3Q: | 21 |
| Home 4Q: | 0 |
| Odds: | USC by 7[1] |
| Mvp: | Offense: USC QB Cody Kessler[2] Defense: USC DE Leonard Williams |
| Referee: | Randy Christal (Big XII) |
| Attendance: | 55,789 |
| Payout: | 2.075 million per team [3] |
| Us Network: | ESPN/ESPN Radio |
| Us Announcers: | Rece Davis, Jesse Palmer, David Pollack, & Samantha Ponder (ESPN) Bill Rosinski, David Norrie, & Joe Schad (ESPN Radio) |
The 2014 Holiday Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was played on December 27, 2014, at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California. The 37th edition of the Holiday Bowl, it featured Nebraska from the Big Ten Conference and USC from the Pac-12 Conference. It was one of the 2014–15 bowl games that concluded the 2014 FBS football season. The game started at 5:00 p.m. PST and was telecast on ESPN (also on ESPN Radio). Sponsored by National University, it was officially known as the National University Holiday Bowl.
This was the fifth overall meeting between these two teams, with USC leading the series 3–0–1 before this game. The last time these two teams met was in 2007.
See main article: article and 2014 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team.
See main article: article and 2014 USC Trojans football team.
Source: [4]
| Statistics | NEB | USC |
|---|---|---|
| First downs | 28 | 22 |
| Plays–yards | 94–525 | 73–515 |
| Rushes–yards | 43–144 | 34–194 |
| Passing yards | 371 | 321 |
| Passing: Comp–Att–Int | 31–49–1 | 23–39–1 |
| Time of possession | 34:26 | 25:34 |
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