2014 Boca Raton Bowl
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| Date | December 23, 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | FAU Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Boca Raton, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Marshall QB Rakeem Cato | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Marshall by 8½ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Rick Loumiet (Mtn. West) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 29,419 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$400,000 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN/ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers |
Dave Lamont, Desmond Howard, & Quint Kessenich (ESPN) Marc Kestecher, John Congemi, & Ian Fitzsimmons (ESPN Radio) |
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The 2014 Boca Raton Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game that was played on December 23, 2014 at FAU Stadium on the campus of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. The first edition of the Boca Raton Bowl, it featured the Conference USA champion Marshall Thundering Herd against the Mid-American Conference champion Northern Illinois Huskies. The game began at 6:00 p.m. EST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2014–15 bowl games that concluded the 2014 FBS football season. Marshall beat Northern Illinois by a score of 52–23.
The game featured the Conference USA champion Marshall Thundering Herd against the Mid-American Conference champion Northern Illinois Huskies.
This was the eighth overall meeting between these two teams, with Northern Illinois previously leading the series 4–3. The previous time these two teams met was in 2001.
After finishing the regular season with a 12–1 record and winning their first Conference USA championship over the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs by a score of 26–23, the Thundering Herd accepted their bid to the Boca Raton Bowl.
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