Game Name: | GoDaddy Bowl |
Subheader: | 17th GoDaddy Bowl |
Date Game Played: | December 23 |
Year Game Played: | 2015 |
Football Season: | 2015 |
Stadium: | Ladd–Peebles Stadium |
City: | Mobile, Alabama |
Visitor School: | Georgia Southern University |
Visitor Name Short: | Georgia Southern |
Visitor Nickname: | Eagles |
Visitor Record: | 8–4 |
Visitor Conference: | Sun Belt |
Visitor Coach: | Dell McGee |
Visitor 1Q: | 9 |
Visitor 2Q: | 14 |
Visitor 3Q: | 21 |
Visitor 4Q: | 14 |
Home School: | Bowling Green State University |
Home Name Short: | Bowling Green |
Home Nickname: | Falcons |
Home Record: | 10–3 |
Home Conference: | MAC |
Home Coach: | Brian Ward[1] |
Home 1Q: | 13 |
Home 2Q: | 14 |
Home 3Q: | 0 |
Home 4Q: | 0 |
Odds: | Bowling Green by 7½[2] [3] |
Mvp: | Georgia Southern QB Favian Upshaw[4] |
Referee: | Scott Campbell (Mtn. West) |
Attendance: | 28,656 |
Payout: | TBD |
Us Network: | ESPN/Nevada Sports Network |
Different Previous: | Jan 2015 |
Different Next: | 2016 |
The 2015 GoDaddy Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 23, 2015, at Ladd–Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama. The 17th edition of the GoDaddy Bowl featured the Bowling Green Falcons of the Mid-American Conference against the Georgia Southern Eagles of the Sun Belt Conference. Kickoff was at 7:00 p.m. CST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2015–16 bowl games that concludes the 2015 FBS football season. The game was sponsored by Internet domain registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy.[5]
The game's match up consisted of Bowling Green Falcons against the Georgia Southern Eagles. This was the first head-to-head matchup between the two schools.[6]
See also: 2015 Georgia Southern Eagles football team. This was the first bowl game in school history for Georgia Southern, in their second season as a member of the Football Bowl Subdivision and the Sun Belt Conference and their first season of bowl eligibility.[7]
See also: 2015 Bowling Green Falcons football team. This was the third appearance in the GoDaddy bowl for the Falcons, with the other two appearances coming in 2004 and 2008.[8]