2015 Cotton Bowl Classic (December)
| 2015 Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| CFP Semifinal at the Cotton Bowl Classic 80th Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic |
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| Date | December 31, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | AT&T Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Arlington, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | QB Jake Coker (Alabama) CB Cyrus Jones (Alabama) |
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| Referee | Mike DeFee (Big XII) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 82,812 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers |
Chris Fowler (Play-by-Play) Kirk Herbstreit (Analyst) Heather Cox (Sideline) Tom Rinaldi (Sideline) ESPN Radio Brad Sham (Play-by-Play) Danny Kanell (Analyst) Ian Fitzsimmons (Sideline) |
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| Nielsen ratings | (18.5 Million viewers) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2015 Cotton Bowl Classic was a college football bowl game played on December 31, 2015 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The 80th Cotton Bowl Classic was a College Football Playoff semifinal between Alabama and Michigan State with the winner to compete in the 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship. It was one of the 2015–16 bowl games that concluded the 2015 FBS football season.
The game was broadcast on ESPN, ESPN Deportes, ESPN Radio and XM Satellite Radio. It was sponsored by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and was officially known as the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic.
Alabama defeated Michigan State 38–0 and would go on to win the National Championship by defeating Clemson in the National Championship game.
The Cotton Bowl acted as one of the two College Football Playoff semifinal games. The two teams selected for the game were No. 2 Alabama and No. 3 Michigan State. Michigan State returned to the Cotton Bowl after defeating Baylor in a non-playoff version of the bowl game on January 1, 2015. Michigan State became just the third school in history to play in the same bowl twice in a calendar year, joining Auburn, which played in the Gator Bowl on January 1 and December 31, 1954, and Oklahoma, which played in the Sugar Bowl on January 1 and December 31, 1972.
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