Game Name: | Birmingham Bowl |
Date Game Played: | December 30 |
Year Game Played: | 2015 |
Football Season: | 2015 |
Stadium: | Legion Field |
City: | Birmingham, Alabama |
Visitor School: | Auburn University |
Visitor Name Short: | Auburn |
Visitor Nickname: | Tigers |
Visitor Record: | 6−6 |
Visitor Conference: | SEC |
Visitor Coach: | Gus Malzahn |
Visitor 1Q: | 10 |
Visitor 2Q: | 0 |
Visitor 3Q: | 7 |
Visitor 4Q: | 14 |
Home School: | Memphis University |
Home Name Short: | Memphis |
Home Nickname: | Tigers |
Home Record: | 9−3 |
Home Conference: | The American |
Home Coach: | Darrell Dickey (interim) |
Home 1Q: | 0 |
Home 2Q: | 10 |
Home 3Q: | 0 |
Home 4Q: | 0 |
Odds: | Auburn by 2[1] |
Mvp: | Auburn RB Jovon Robinson |
Referee: | Jeff Heaser (ACC) |
Attendance: | 59,430 |
Payout: | 1,100,000 (Auburn) $900,000 (Memphis) |
Us Network: | ESPN/ESPN Radio |
Us Announcers: | Beth Mowins (play-by-play), Anthony Becht (analyst), Paul Carcaterra (sideline reporter) (ESPN) Allen Bestwick, Dan Hawkins, & Tiffany Greene (ESPN Radio) |
Different Previous: | 2015 (Jan) |
Different Next: | 2016 |
The 2015 Birmingham Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 30, 2015 at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama in the United States. The tenth annual Birmingham Bowl featured a team from the Southeastern Conference against a team from the American Athletic Conference. The game was played at 11:00 a.m. CST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2015–16 bowl games that concluded the 2015 FBS football season.
The two Tigers teams were selected from the American Athletic Conference and the SEC conference.
See also: 2015 Auburn Tigers football team.
See also: 2015 Memphis Tigers football team.
Source:[2]
Statistics | AUB | MEM |
---|---|---|
First Downs | 23 | 13 |
Total offense, plays – yards | 73–405 | 68–206 |
Rushes-yards (net) | 56–254 | 30–102 |
Passing yards (net) | 151 | 104 |
Passes, Comp-Att-Int | 10–17–3 | 17–38–1 |
Time of Possession | 34:17 | 25:43 |