2015 Birmingham Bowl (January)

2015 Birmingham Bowl
East Carolina Pirates Florida Gators (8–5) (7–5) 20 28 Head coach:  Ruffin McNeill Head coach:  D. J. Durkin (interim)
1 2 3 4 Total East Carolina 7 0 10 3 20 Florida 7 14 7 0 28
Date	January 3, 2015
Season	2014
Stadium	Legion Field
Location	Birmingham, Alabama
MVP	Florida RB Adam Lane
Favorite	Florida by 7
Referee	Dan Romeo (Mtn. West)
Attendance	30,083
Payout	US$1,100,000 (Florida) 900,000 (East Carolina)
United States TV coverage
Network	ESPN/ESPN Radio
Announcers	Dave Neal, Andre Ware, & Laura Rutledge (ESPN) Clay Matvick, Greg McElroy, & Cara Capuano (ESPN Radio)
Birmingham Bowl  < 2014 2015 (Dec) >

The 2015 Birmingham Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 3, 2015 at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama in the United States. The ninth annual Birmingham Bowl saw the Florida Gators of the Southeastern Conference defeat the East Carolina Pirates of the American Athletic Conference by a score of 28–20. The game started at 11:00 a.m. CST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2014–15 bowl games that concluded the 2014 FBS football season.

This was the second overall meeting between these two teams. The last time these two teams met was in 1983, a game Florida won by a score of 24–17. The teams would meet again on September 12, 2015 at Florida's Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, a game Florida won 31-24.

After finishing their regular season with an 8–4 record, the Pirates accepted their invitation to play in the game.

This was East Carolina's second Birmingham Bowl. They previously played in the 2006 PapaJohns.com Bowl (the inaugural version of that game), losing to the South Florida Bulls by a score of 24–7.

After finishing their regular season with a 6–5 record, the Gators accepted their invitation to play in the game.

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