Game Name: | New Mexico Bowl |
Subheader: | 9th New Mexico Bowl |
Title Sponsor: | Gildan |
Date Game Played: | December 20 |
Year Game Played: | 2014 |
Football Season: | 2014 |
Stadium: | University Stadium |
City: | Albuquerque, New Mexico |
Visitor School: | Utah State University |
Visitor Name Short: | Utah State |
Visitor Nickname: | Aggies |
Visitor Record: | 9–4 |
Visitor Conference: | Mountain West |
Visitor Coach: | Matt Wells |
Visitor 1Q: | 7 |
Visitor 2Q: | 0 |
Visitor 3Q: | 7 |
Visitor 4Q: | 7 |
Home School: | University of Texas at El Paso |
Home Name Short: | UTEP |
Home Nickname: | Miners |
Home Record: | 7–5 |
Home Conference: | C-USA |
Home Coach: | Sean Kugler |
Home 1Q: | 3 |
Home 2Q: | 0 |
Home 3Q: | 0 |
Home 4Q: | 3 |
Odds: | Utah State by 10[1] |
Mvp: | Offense: Utah State QB Kent Myers Defense: Utah State LB Zach Vigil |
Referee: | Charles Lewis (Sun Belt) |
Attendance: | 28,725 |
Payout: | 456,250 |
Us Network: | ESPN/ESPN Radio |
Us Announcers: | Mark Neely, David Diaz-Infante, & Kayce Smith (ESPN) Drew Goodman, Tom Ramsey, & Dave Shore (ESPN Radio) |
The 2014 New Mexico Bowl was a college football bowl game that was played on December 20, 2014 at University Stadium in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The ninth annual New Mexico Bowl, it pitted the Utah State Aggies of the Mountain West Conference against the UTEP Miners of Conference USA.[2] It was one of the 2014–15 bowl games that concluded the 2014 FBS football season. The game started at 12:20 p.m. MST and aired on ESPN. Sponsored by clothing company Gildan Activewear, the game was officially known as the Gildan New Mexico Bowl. Utah State beat UTEP by a score of 21–6.
The game featured the Utah State Aggies of the Mountain West Conference against the UTEP Miners of Conference USA.
This was the third meeting between these two teams, with Utah State previously leading the series 2–0. The last time these two teams had met was in 1961.
See also: 2014 Utah State Aggies football team.
This was Utah State's first New Mexico Bowl.
See also: 2014 UTEP Miners football team.
This was UTEP's second New Mexico Bowl; the Miners had previously played in the 2010 game, where they lost to the BYU Cougars by a score of 52–24. It was also the Miners' first bowl appearance since that game, where they once again attempted to get their first bowl victory since the 1967 Sun Bowl.
Source: [3]
Statistics | USU | UTEP |
---|---|---|
First downs | 16 | 12 |
Plays–yards | 52–347 | 70–275 |
Rushes–yards | 40–279 | 46–149 |
Passing yards | 68 | 126 |
Passing: Comp–Att–Int | 5–12–1 | 13–24–1 |
Time of possession | 23:26 | 36:34 |