2014 AutoZone Liberty Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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Date | December 29, 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
Season | 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stadium | Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | Memphis, Tennessee | ||||||||||||||||||
MVP | Texas A&M QB Kyle Allen | ||||||||||||||||||
Favorite | West Virginia by 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
Referee | Walter Davenport (ACC) | ||||||||||||||||||
Halftime show | Big & Rich | ||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 51,282 | ||||||||||||||||||
United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
Network | ESPN/ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||||
Announcers |
Clay Matvick, Anthony Becht, & Dawn Davenport (ESPN) Mark Neely, Ray Bentley, & Niki Noto (ESPN Radio) |
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The 2014 Liberty Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on December 29, 2014 at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee. The 56th edition of the Liberty Bowl, it featured the Texas A&M Aggies of the Southeastern Conference and the West Virginia Mountaineers of the Big 12 Conference. It began at 1:00 p.m. CST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2014–15 bowl games that concludes the 2014 FBS football season. Sponsored by automobile parts and accessories store AutoZone, it is officially known as the AutoZone Liberty Bowl.
This was the first meeting between these two teams. This was the 2nd Liberty Bowl appearance for both schools, Texas A&M's first was in 1975 and West Virginia's was in 1964. This was the first for Texas A&M as a member of the SEC and the first for West Virginia as a member of the Big 12.
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