2015 TaxSlayer Bowl

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2015 TaxSlayer Bowl
70th Gator Bowl
1234Total
Iowa0702128
Tennessee21147345
DateJanuary 2, 2015
Season 2014
Stadium EverBank Field
Location Jacksonville, Florida
MVP Joshua Dobbs (QB, Tennessee) [1] & Josey Jewell (LB, Iowa) [2]
Favorite Tennessee by 3.5 [3]
Referee Mike Mothershed (Pac-12) [4]
Halftime show Pride of The Southland Marching Band
Attendance56,310 [4]
United States TV coverage
Network ESPN/ESPN Radio
Announcers Mark Jones, Rod Gilmore, and Jessica Mendoza (ESPN)
Adam Amin, John Congemi, & Dawn Davenport (ESPN Radio)
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The 2015 TaxSlayer Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on January 2, 2015, at EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Florida. The 70th edition of the Gator Bowl featured the Iowa Hawkeyes from the Big Ten Conference and the Tennessee Volunteers of the Southeastern Conference. The game was one of the 2014–15 NCAA football bowl games that concluded the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The game began at 3:20 p.m. EST and was nationally televised by ESPN. It was sponsored by tax preparation software company TaxSlayer.com, [5] and for sponsorship reasons was officially known as the TaxSlayer Bowl.

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Teams

This was the third overall meeting between these two teams, with the series tied 1–1. The previous time these two teams met was in 1987. The only other bowl game these two played against each other was the 1982 Peach Bowl, which Iowa won 28–22.

The Volunteers took the momentum early, scoring on their first four possessions and leading 28–0 before Iowa managed to reach 70 yards. Sophomore quarterback and game MVP Joshua Dobbs ran for two touchdowns and threw for another as the Vols posted their first winning season since going 7–6 in 2009, and earned its first postseason victory since the Phillip Fulmer era, the last being the 2008 Outback Bowl over the Wisconsin Badgers. [6]

Game summary

Scoring summary

Scoring summary
QuarterTime Drive TeamScoring informationScore
Plays Yards TOP IOWATENN
19:279803:28TENN Jalen Hurd 3-yard touchdown run, Aaron Medley kick good07
12:545671:41TENNJalen Hurd 29-yard touchdown run, Aaron Medley kick good014
11:311490:13TENNVic Wharton 49-yard touchdown reception from Marlin Lane, Aaron Medley kick good021
212:028623:23TENN Joshua Dobbs 8-yard touchdown run, Aaron Medley kick good028
23:439714:30IOWAMark Weisman 3-yard touchdown run, Marshall Koehn kick good728
20:219753:22TENNVon Pearson 19-yard touchdown reception from Joshua Dobbs, Aaron Medley kick good735
37:469753:13TENNJoshua Dobbs 11-yard touchdown run, Aaron Medley kick good742
414:294461:24IOWAMark Weisman 1-yard touchdown run, Marshall Koehn kick good1442
48:3111345:58TENN28-yard field goal by Aaron Medley1445
43:306802:13IOWA Ray Hamilton 31-yard touchdown reception from C. J. Beathard, Marshall Koehn kick good2145
40:204751:02IOWAMatt VandeBerg 18-yard touchdown reception from C. J. Beathard, Marshall Koehn kick good2845
"TOP" = time of possession. For other American football terms, see Glossary of American football.2845

Source: [4]

Statistics

Statistics [4] IowaTENN
First downs2327
Plays–yards66–42173–461
Rushes–yards35–24451–283
Passing yards177178
Passing: Comp–Att–Int15–31–117–22–1
Time of possession27:5232:08

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