2015 New Mexico Bowl
| 2015 Gildan New Mexico Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 19, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | University Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Albuquerque, New Mexico | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Offense: Arizona QB Anu Solomon Defense:Arizona LB Scooby Wright III |
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| Favorite | Arizona by 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Larry Smith (MAC) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 30,289 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$456,250 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN/ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers |
Eamon McAnaney, Rocky Boiman, & Laura Rutledge (ESPN) Drew Goodman Tom Ramsey, & Marty Cesario (ESPN Radio) |
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The 2015 New Mexico Bowl was a college football bowl game that was played on December 19, 2015 at University Stadium in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The tenth annual New Mexico Bowl, it pitted the University of New Mexico Lobos of the Mountain West Conference against the University of Arizona Wildcats of the Pac-12 Conference. It was one of the 2015–16 bowl games that concluded the 2015 FBS football season. The game started at 12:20 p.m. MST and aired on ESPN. Sponsored by clothing company Gildan Activewear, the game was officially known as the Gildan New Mexico Bowl.
The game featured the New Mexico Lobos against the Arizona Wildcats. It was the 67th overall meeting between these teams, with Arizona leading the series 43–20–3 before this game (both had previously been in-conference rivals in the Border Conference and the Western Athletic Conference before Arizona joined the Pacific-10 Conference (now the Pac-12 Conference) and New Mexico joined the Mountain West. The last meeting between these two teams was in 2008, when the Lobos beat the Wildcats 36–28 in Albuquerque.
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