2015 Bahamas Bowl
| 2015 Popeyes Bahamas Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 24, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Thomas Robinson Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Nassau, Bahamas | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Offensive: Western Michigan RB Jamauri Bogan Defensive: Western Michigan LB Grant DePalma |
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| Favorite | Western Michigan by 2½ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Brandon Cruse (Mtn. West) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 13,123 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$TBD | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN/RedVoice, LLC. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers |
Steve Levy, Mack Brown, Mark May, & Kaylee Hartung (ESPN) Brian Hanni & Rob Best (RedVoice) |
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The 2015 Bahamas Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 24, 2015 at Thomas Robinson Stadium in Nassau in the Bahamas. The second edition of the Bahamas Bowl featured the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders of Conference USA against the Western Michigan Broncos of the Mid-American Conference. It began at noon EST and air on ESPN. It was one of the 2015–16 bowl games that concluded the 2015 FBS football season. Sponsored by the Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen restaurant chain, the game is officially known as the Popeyes Bahamas Bowl.
The game is best remembered as the Broncos' first bowl victory in school history.
The game featured the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders against the Western Michigan Broncos.
After finishing their regular season 7–5, bowl director Richard Giannini extended an invitation for the Blue Raiders to play in the game, which they accepted.
This was the Blue Raiders' seventh bowl game (they are now 3–4 all-time in bowl games thus far) and their first since the 2013 Armed Forces Bowl, where they lost to Navy by a score of 24–6. It was also their third bowl game against a MAC opponent; the Blue Raiders likewise lost both previous meetings, losing in the 2006 Motor City Bowl to Central Michigan by a score of 31–14 and in the 2011 GoDaddy.com Bowl to the Miami (Ohio) by a score of 35–21.
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