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14th Belk Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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Date | December 30, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
Season | 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stadium | Bank of America Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | Charlotte, North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||
MVP | Dak Prescott (QB, Mississippi State) | ||||||||||||||||||
Favorite | Miss. State by 5 [1] | ||||||||||||||||||
Referee | Michael Batlan (Pac-12) [2] | ||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 46,423 [2] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Network | ESPN/ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||||
Announcers | Clay Matvick, John Congemi, & Dawn Davenport (ESPN) Taylor Zarzour, Charles Arbuckle, & Quint Kessenich (ESPN Radio) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2015 Belk Bowl a college football bowl game that was played on December 30, 2015 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina in the United States. [3] The fourteenth annual Belk Bowl, it matched the NC State Wolfpack and the Mississippi State Bulldogs. The game started at approximately 3:30 p.m. ET and was nationally televised by ESPN. It was one of the 2015–16 bowl games that concluded the 2015 season. It was sponsored by Charlotte-based department store Belk.
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Statistics [2] | NCST | MSU |
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First Downs | 20 | 26 |
Total offense, plays – yards | 79–424 | 77–569 |
Rushes-yards (net) | 51–210 | 35–189 |
Passing yards (net) | 214 | 380 |
Passes, Comp-Att-Int | 12–28–2 | 25–42–1 |
Time of Possession | 32:05 | 27:55 |
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