Game Name: | Music City Bowl |
Subheader: | 18th Music City Bowl |
Title Sponsor: | Franklin American Mortgage |
Date Game Played: | December 30 |
Year Game Played: | 2015 |
Football Season: | 2015 |
Stadium: | Nissan Stadium |
City: | Nashville, Tennessee |
Home School: | University of Louisville |
Home Name Short: | Louisville |
Home Nickname: | Cardinals |
Home Record: | 7–5 |
Home Conference: | ACC |
Home Coach: | Bobby Petrino |
Home 1Q: | 20 |
Home 2Q: | 0 |
Home 3Q: | 7 |
Home 4Q: | 0 |
Visitor School: | Texas A&M University |
Visitor Name Short: | Texas A&M |
Visitor Nickname: | Aggies |
Visitor Record: | 8–4 |
Visitor Conference: | SEC |
Visitor Coach: | Kevin Sumlin |
Visitor 1Q: | 7 |
Visitor 2Q: | 7 |
Visitor 3Q: | 0 |
Visitor 4Q: | 7 |
Odds: | Texas A&M by 2½[1] |
Mvp: | Lamar Jackson |
Anthem: | Corrin Campbell and Danny Gokey |
Referee: | Alan Eck (Big XII) |
Attendance: | 50,478 |
Us Network: | ESPN ESPN Radio |
Us Announcers: | Tom Hart, Andre Ware, Laura Rutledge (ESPN) Mike Corey, Rene Ingoglia, Ian Fitzsimmons (ESPN Radio) |
The 2015 Music City Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on December 30, 2015, at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee. The 18th edition of the Music City Bowl began at approximately 6:00 p.m. CST and was broadcast nationally by ESPN. It featured the Texas A&M Aggies from the SEC, and the Louisville Cardinals from the ACC. It was one of the final 2015–16 bowl games of the 2015 FBS football season. The game was sponsored by the Franklin American Mortgage Company and is officially known as the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl.
The game is the fourth overall meeting between these two teams, with Texas A&M leading the series 3–0 going into the game. The last time these two teams met was in 1994 with Texas A&M beating Louisville with the score of 26–10. This is the first time the two teams have met as members of the SEC and ACC; their last meeting came when Texas A&M was a member of the Southwest Conference and Louisville was an independent.
See main article: 2015 Louisville Cardinals football team.
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Statistics | TAMU | LOU |
---|---|---|
First downs | 25 | 21 |
Plays–yards | 87–445 | 72–534 |
Rushes–yards | 39–138 | 46–307 |
Passing yards | 307 | 227 |
Passing: Comp–Att–Int | 28–48–1 | 12–26–0 |
Time of possession | 30:53 | 29:07 |