2015 Hawaii Bowl

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2015 Hawaii Bowl
San Diego State Aztecs Cincinnati Bearcats
(10–3) (7–5)
Mountain West The American
42 7
Head coach: 
Rocky Long		 Head coach: 
Tommy Tuberville
1 2 3 4 Total
San Diego State 14 7 7 14 42
Cincinnati 0 0 0 7 7
Date December 24, 2015
Season 2015
Stadium Aloha Stadium
Location Honolulu, Hawaii
MVP San Diego State FB Dakota Gordon[1]
Favorite Cincinnati by 2½[2]
Referee Rodney Burnette (C-USA)[3]
Attendance 22,793[3]
Payout US$TBD
United States TV coverage
Network ESPN/ESPN Radio
Announcers Adam Amin, Greg McElroy, & Holly Rowe (ESPN)
Kevin Winter, Mike Golic, & Mike Golic, Jr. (ESPN Radio)
Hawaii Bowl
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The 2015 Hawaii Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 24, 2015 at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The fourteenth edition of the Hawaii Bowl featured the Cincinnati Bearcats of the American Athletic Conference against the San Diego State Aztecs from the Mountain West Conference. It began at 3:15 p.m. HAST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2015–16 bowl games that will conclude the 2015 FBS football season.[4]

Teams

The game featured the Cincinnati Bearcats with a record of 7–5 against San Diego State which had a 9-game winning streak going into the game. The Aztecs defeated the Bearcats by a score of 42-7.

Cincinnati Bearcats

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See also: 2015 Cincinnati Bearcats football team

This was the Bearcats' 17th bowl game (they were 8–8 all-time in bowl games), their fifth consecutive bowl appearance, and their first bowl game in Hawaii.

San Diego State Aztecs

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See also: 2015 San Diego State Aztecs football team

San Diego State, playing its sixth straight bowl game, had won all of its eight regular conference games this year. They then defeated Air Force, 27-24 in the title game for the school's 20th football conference championship. Head coach Rocky Long is among 13 active coaches to have guided his current team to a bowl game during his first five seasons as the head man. This was also the Aztecs' first bowl game in Hawaii since 1952.

Game summary

Scoring Summary

Scoring summary
Quarter Time Drive Team Scoring information Score
Plays Yards TOP SDSU CIN
1 14:45 – – – SDSU Rashaad Penny 100-yard kick return, Donny Hageman kick good 7 0
1 9:08 9 85 4:32 SDSU Mikah Holder 14-yard touchdown reception from Christian Chapman, Donny Hageman kick good 14 0
2 2:02 4 56 1:49 SDSU Dakota Gordon 16-yard touchdown reception from Donnel Pumphrey, Donny Hageman kick good 21 0
3 5:14 8 67 3:30 SDSU Dakota Gordon 1-yard touchdown run, Donny Hageman kick good 28 0
4 11:29 11 85 6:54 SDSU Donnel Pumphrey 2-yard touchdown run, Donny Hageman kick good 35 0
4 9:04 – – – SDSU Interception returned 43 yards for touchdown by Alex Barrett, Donny Hageman kick good 42 0
4 3:21 12 73 5:35 CIN Mike Boone 1-yard touchdown run, Andrew Gantz kick good 42 7
"TOP" = time of possession. For other American football terms, see Glossary of American football. 42 7

Source: [3]

Statistics

Statistics[3] SDSU CIN
First downs 22 15
Plays–yards 64–336 63–279
Rushes–yards 52–207 32–77
Passing yards 129 202
Passing: Comp–Att–Int 9–12–0 19–31–3
Time of possession 35:34 24:26

References

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