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| Date | December 19, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | University Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Albuquerque, New Mexico | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Offense: Arizona
QB
Anu Solomon
[1] Defense:Arizona LB Scooby Wright III [2] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Arizona by 8 [3] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Larry Smith ( MAC) [4] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 30,289 [4] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$456,250 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN/ ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers |
Eamon McAnaney,
Rocky Boiman, &
Laura Rutledge (ESPN) Drew Goodman Tom Ramsey, & Marty Cesario (ESPN Radio) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2015 New Mexico Bowl was a college football bowl game that was played on December 19, 2015 at University Stadium in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The tenth annual New Mexico Bowl, it pitted the University of New Mexico Lobos of the Mountain West Conference against the University of Arizona Wildcats of the Pac-12 Conference. It was one of the 2015–16 bowl games that concluded the 2015 FBS football season. The game started at 12:20 p.m. MST and aired on ESPN. Sponsored by clothing company Gildan Activewear, the game was officially known as the Gildan New Mexico Bowl.
Team selection
The game featured the New Mexico Lobos against the Arizona Wildcats. It was the 67th overall meeting between these teams, with Arizona leading the series 43–20–3 before this game (both had previously been in-conference rivals in the Border Conference and the Western Athletic Conference before Arizona joined the Pacific-10 Conference (now the Pac-12 Conference) and New Mexico joined the Mountain West. The last meeting between these two teams was in 2008, when the Lobos beat the Wildcats 36–28 in Albuquerque. [5]
Arizona Wildcats
Arizona head coach Rich Rodriguez had led the Wildcats to bowl appearances in each of his four seasons with the school. Overall, Rodriguez entered with a 4–5 bowl record as the head coach at Arizona (2–1), Michigan (0–1) and West Virginia (2–3).
New Mexico Lobos
This was the first bowl appearance for the Lobos under fourth-year head coach Bob Davie, who had three previous bowl appearances as the head coach at Notre Dame. UNM entered 3–7–1 all time in bowl games, with their last appearance being a win in the 2007 New Mexico Bowl. The Lobos play their home games at the New Mexico Bowl site – University Stadium – and had a 5–2 record in 2015 at home.
Game summary
Scoring summary
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Source: [4]
Statistics
| Statistics [4] | ARIZ | UNM |
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| First downs | 19 | 25 |
| Plays–yards | 56–503 | 91–522 |
| Rushes–yards | 32–174 | 69–333 |
| Passing yards | 329 | 189 |
| Passing: Comp–Att–Int | 13–24–1 | 10–22–3 |
| Time of possession | 19:08 | 40:52 |
| Team | Category | Player | Statistics |
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| ARIZ | Passing | Anu Solomon | 13/24, 329 yds, 2 TD, 1 INT |
| Rushing | Jared Baker | 12 car, 107 yds, 3 TD | |
| Receiving | Cayleb Jones | 4 rec, 182 yds, 1 TD | |
| UNM | Passing | Lamar Jordan | 3/9, 110 yds, 1 TD, 2 INT |
| Rushing | Lamar Jordan | 21 car, 135 yds, 3 TD | |
| Receiving | Delane Hart-Johnson | 1 rec, 92 yds, 1 TD |
See also
References
- ^ GildanNewMexicoBowl [@GildanNMbowl] (December 19, 2015). "2015 Offensive Player of the Game, Anu Solomon" ( Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ GildanNewMexicoBowl [@GildanNMbowl] (December 19, 2015). "2015 Defensive Player of the Game, Scooby Wright" ( Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Odds, Los Angeles Times, December 19, 2015
- ^ a b c d "2015 New Mexico Bowl: Arizona vs. New Mexico Stats". Stat Broadcast. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
- ^ "Winsipedia - Arizona Wildcats vs. New Mexico Lobos football series history".