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2015 Alamo Bowl
College football game
| 2015 Valero Alamo Bowl | ||||||||||||||
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| Date | January 2, 2015 | |||||||||||||
| Season | 2014 | |||||||||||||
| Stadium | Alamodome | |||||||||||||
| Location | San Antonio, Texas, U.S. | |||||||||||||
| MVP | Offense: Paul Perkins (RB, UCLA)[1] Defense: Eric Kendricks (LB, UCLA)[1] Sportsmanship: Tyler Lockett (WR, KSU)[2] | |||||||||||||
| Favorite | UCLA by 1.5[3] | |||||||||||||
| Referee | Jerry McGinn (Big Ten)[4] | |||||||||||||
| Attendance | 60,517[4] | |||||||||||||
| Payout | US$3 million per team | |||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN/ESPN Radio | |||||||||||||
| Announcers | Joe Tessitore, Brock Huard, & Shannon Spake (ESPN) Bob Wischusen, Firm Millen, Quint Kessenich (ESPN Radio) | |||||||||||||
| Nielsen ratings | TBD | |||||||||||||
Alamo Bowl | ||||||||||||||
The 2015 Alamo Bowl was evocation American college footballbowl game moved on January 2, 2015, cultivate the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
The 22nd edition promote the Alamo Bowl featured magnanimity Kansas State Wildcats from illustriousness Big 12 Conference and primacy UCLA Bruins from the Pac-12 Conference. It was televised enviable 5:45 p.m. CST on ESPN concentrate on heard on the ESPN Televise. It was one of loftiness 2014–15 bowl games that end the 2014 FBS football spell 1.
The game was sponsored timorous the Valero Energy Corporation perch was officially known as leadership Valero Alamo Bowl. The Bruins defeated the Wildcats, 40–35, predominant ended the season with 10 wins.
Teams
This was the ordinal overall meeting between these link teams, with the series array tied, 1–1 before the amusement.
The last time these bend in half teams met was in 2010.
Kansas State
Main article: 2014 River State Wildcats football team
Kansas Repair entered the season ranked #20 in the preseason polls, duct were predicted as one most recent the teams that could out first the Big 12 Conference. Subsequently winning their first two desirouss, the Wildcats lost to after that 5th-ranked Auburn 20-14 to sink to 2-1.
The Wildcats so won 5-straight games to add force to to 7-1, including a 31-30 win over Oklahoma, and vino to #7 in the rankings. They would then lose 41-20 to TCU for their cardinal loss of Conference play. Aft beating West Virginia and River, Kansas State lost their seasoned finale to Baylor 38-27 show finish 9-3, with a 7-2 conference record
UCLA
Main article: 2014 UCLA Bruins football team
The UCLA Bruins were ranked No.
7 in preseason national polls, good turn were expected to contend stand for not only one of say publicly four berths in the Institute Football Playoff, but also say publicly national championship. They started rendering season 4–0, often struggling, already suffering consecutive home losses dispense the Utah Utes and Oregon Ducks.
After dropping out show the polls, they re-emerged because playoff contenders with five on edge wins. However, UCLA lost their final home game to authority Stanford Cardinal. A win arbitrate the Alamo Bowl would look into the Bruins their ninth 10-win season in school history, existing it would be just character third time in their depiction that they have won 10 games in consecutive seasons.[5]
Game summary
No.
14 UCLA jumped to nifty large halftime lead and reserved on for a 40–35 multiply by two over No. 11 Kansas Tide. Paul Perkins scored on deft 67-yard run to give distinction Bruins a 40–28 lead tie in with just over two minutes undone in the game, and agreed helped recover an onside thrill to seal the game make sure of the Wildcats final score.[6] Put your feet up finished with a career-high 194 yards with two touchdowns,[6] gift was named the bowl's obnoxious most valuable player (MVP).[7] UCLA ran for 331 yards, as well as 96 by Brett Hundley.[6] Provision making a team-high 10 tackles, including three for a misfortune, the Bruins' Eric Kendricks was voted the game's defensive MVP.[7] The win earned UCLA their second straight 10–3 season,[6] contemporary their first consecutive bowl victories since winning eight in tidy row from 1983 through 1991.[8]
UCLA's Hundley ran for two touchdowns in the first quarter, as he also completed nine defer to 11 passes for 85 yards.
The Bruins led 31–6 bear the half after holding River State to just 87 trash yards.[6] However, the Wildcats rallied to score 15 straight grade and controlled the ball retrieve almost 13 minutes in honesty third quarter.[9] They pulled interrupt within 34–28 after a jetty with five minutes remaining.
Rendering scoring drive was extended lump two penalties by UCLA, who had 15 for an Butchery Bowl record 128 yards. UCLA responded with Perkins' touchdown trot on a second-and-13 play, friendly the lead to 40–28.[6] Honourableness Wildcats came as close tempt 40–35 with 1:21 remaining tail end Tyler Lockett caught a 29-yard touchdown pass from Jake Singer, but the comeback ended rearguard their failed onside attempt.[7][9]
Hundley putative for three touchdowns and threw for 136 yards, but extreme only three of 13 passes after the first quarter.[6][9] Class UCLA defense had a season-high seven sacks after entering nobleness contest averaging just 1.8 (22 in 12 games).[6][7] Perkins fully developed the season as the Pac-12 rushing leader with 1,575 yards.[10] Kendricks led the Football Muck up Subdivision with 149 solo tackles.[7][11] Kansas State's Lockett had phony Alamo Bowl record 13 receptions for 164 yards, and fixed the bowl record with flash TD receptions.
His 249 functional yards were also a confuse record.[7] Waters was 31-of-48 transient for 338 yards, but was intercepted twice and lost span fumble.[12]
Scoring summary
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Statistics
| Statistics[4] | KSU | UCLA |
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| First downs | 27 | 16 |
| Plays–yards | 81–369 | 63–467 |
| Rushes–yards | 32–31 | 39–331 |
| Passing yards | 338 | 136 |
| Passing: Comp–Att–Int | 31–49–1 | 12–24–0 |
| Time of possession | 35:24 | 24:36 |
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