2014 Music City Bowl

2014 Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl
17th Music City Bowl
Notre Dame Fighting Irish LSU Tigers
(7–5) (8–4)
Independent SEC
31 28
Head coach: 
Brian Kelly		 Head coach: 
Les Miles
APCoachesCFP
222323
1234 Total
Notre Dame 71473 31
LSU 77140 28
DateDecember 30, 2014
Season2014
StadiumLP Field
LocationNashville, Tennessee
MVPQB Malik Zaire, Notre Dame[1]
FavoriteLSU by 8.5
National anthemJonathan Jackson[2]
RefereeMichael Batlan[3] (Pac-12)
Attendance60,419[3]
United States TV coverage
NetworkESPN
ESPN Radio
AnnouncersMark Jones, Rod Gilmore, Jessica Mendoza (ESPN)
Mark Neely, David Diaz-Infante, Dawn Davenport (ESPN Radio)
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The 2014 Music City Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on December 30, 2014 at LP Field in Nashville, Tennessee. The 17th edition of the Music City Bowl began at approximately 2:00 p.m. CST and was broadcast nationally by ESPN. It featured the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and the LSU Tigers from the SEC.[4] It was one of the final 2014-15 bowl games of the 2014 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. Notre Dame defeated Louisiana State by a final score of 31–28.

Teams

The game was the eleventh overall meeting between these two teams, with the series previously tied 5–5. The last time these two teams met was in 2006.[5] It represented the third bowl game between these two teams; the previous bowls were the 1997 Independence Bowl and the 2007 Sugar Bowl.

LSU Tigers

Main article: 2014 LSU Tigers football team

Notre Dame

Main article: 2014 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team

Game summary

Scoring summary

Scoring summary
Quarter Time Drive Team Scoring information Score
Plays Yards TOP ND LSU
1 7:04 15 66 7:56 ND Will Fuller 12-yard touchdown reception from Malik Zaire, Kyle Brindza kick good 7 0
1 0:05 8 76 2:36 LSU Leonard Fournette 8-yard touchdown run, Trent Domingue kick good 7 7
2 11:04 11 75 4:01 ND Malik Zaire 7-yard touchdown run, Kyle Brindza kick good 14 7
2 10:52 – – – LSU Kickoff returned 100 yards for touchdown by Leonard Fournette, Trent Domingue kick good 14 14
2 6:12 10 59 4:40 ND Tarean Folston 6-yard touchdown run, Kyle Brindza kick good 21 14
3 14:46 1 75 0:14 LSU John Diarse 75-yard touchdown reception from Anthony Jennings, Trent Domingue kick good 21 21
3 6:14 1 89 0:12 LSU Leonard Fournette 89-yard touchdown run, Trent Domingue kick good 21 28
3 4:15 4 67 1:59 ND C. J. Prosise 50-yard touchdown run, Kyle Brindza kick good 28 28
4 0:00 14 71 5:41 ND 32-yard field goal by Kyle Brindza 31 28
"TOP" = time of possession. For other American football terms, see Glossary of American football. 31 28

Source:[6]

Statistics

Statistics[3] ND LSU
First downs 23 17
Plays–yards 69–448 52–436
Rushes–yards 51–263 38–285
Passing yards 185 151
Passing: Comp–Att–Int 18–26–0 7–14–0
Time of possession 37:00 23:00

References

  1. ^ Stankevitz, JJ (December 30, 2014). "Everett Golson, Malik Zaire team up to push Notre Dame past LSU". irish.nbcsports.com. NBC Sports. Retrieved December 31, 2014.
  2. ^ @JonathanJackson (December 30, 2014). "I'm honored to sing the National..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. ^ a b c Boxscore
  4. ^ Barnett, Zach (December 15, 2014). "Notre Dame Will Play Both QBs vs. LSU in the Music City Bowl", NBC Sports. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
  5. ^ Shepkowski, Nick (June 2, 2023). "College football history: Notre Dame and LSU's all-time meetings". Fighting Irish Wire. USA Today. Retrieved November 18, 2024.
  6. ^ "Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. LSU Tigers - Play By Play". ESPN. Retrieved December 30, 2014.