The 2014 Bahamas Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game that was played December 24, 2014 at Thomas Robinson Stadium in Nassau in the Bahamas. The first edition of the Bahamas Bowl featured the Central Michigan Chippewas of the Mid-American Conference against the WKU Hilltoppers of Conference USA. It began at 12:00 p.m. EST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2014–15 bowl games that concluded the 2014 FBS football season. Sponsored by the Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen fried chicken restaurant chain, the game was officially known as the Popeyes Bahamas Bowl.

Western Kentucky beat Central Michigan, 49–48.

By the middle of the third quarter, the Chippewas had fallen behind the Hilltoppers by a score of 49–14, but they scored four unanswered touchdowns and so near the end of the fourth quarter were down by only seven points. With one second remaining on the clock, they had the ball on their own 25 yard line. They then scored a touchdown on a play that started with a Hail Mary pass and also included three lateral passes. By kicking the extra point they could have tied the game and gone into overtime, but instead they attempted a two-point conversion for the win; however, the pass was blocked. Had the try succeeded, it would have marked the largest comeback in bowl history and tied the largest comeback in any FBS game.

Chippewas quarterback Cooper Rush threw seven touchdown passes, setting a new NCAA bowl game record.

This was the first postseason bowl game to be played outside the United States since the 2010 International Bowl at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Canada.

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