2015 TaxSlayer Bowl

February 2024 TaxSlayer Bowl 70th Gator Bowl January 2 2015 2014 EverBank Field Jacksonville, Florida University of Iowa Iowa Hawkeyes 7–5 Big Ten Kirk Ferentz 0 7 0 21 University of Tennessee Tennessee Volunteers 6–6 SEC Butch Jones 21 14 7 3 Tennessee by 3.5College Football Lines, NCAA College Football Lines At Bovada Online Sportsbook http://sports.bovada.lv/sports-betting/college-football-lines.jsp usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20141202095115/http://sports.bovada.lv/sports-betting/college-football-lines.jsp December 2, 2014 Bovada Joshua Dobbs (QB, Tennessee)Coble Don January 2, 2015 Tennessee turns TaxSlayer Bowl win over Iowa into a long-needed celebration http://jacksonville.com/sports/2015-01-02/story/tennessee-turns-taxslayer-bowl-win-over-iowa-long-needed-celebration January 2, 2015 jacksonville.com The Florida Times-Union & Josey Jewell (LB, Iowa)2014 https://www.taxslayerbowl.com/2014-2/ dead https://web.archive.org/web/20171231155424/https://www.taxslayerbowl.com/2014-2/ December 31, 2017 December 31, 2017 Mike Mothershed (Pac-12) Pride of The Southland Marching Band 56,310 ESPN/ESPN Radio Mark Jones, Rod Gilmore, and Jessica Mendoza (ESPN)Adam Amin, John Congemi, & Dawn Davenport (ESPN Radio) 2014 2016 (Jan.) The 2015 TaxSlayer Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on January 2, 2015, at EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Florida. The 70th edition of the Gator Bowl featured the Iowa Hawkeyes from the Big Ten Conference and the Tennessee Volunteers of the Southeastern Conference. The game was one of the 2014–15 NCAA football bowl games that concluded the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The game began at 3:20 p.m. EST and was nationally televised by ESPN. It was sponsored by tax preparation software company TaxSlayer.com,TaxSlayer.com Announces New Sponsorship https://www.taxslayer.com/blog/post/TaxSlayer-Announces-New-Sponsorship-TaxSlayer-Bowl dead https://web.archive.org/web/20141207231954/https://www.taxslayer.com/blog/post/TaxSlayer-Announces-New-Sponsorship-TaxSlayer-Bowl December 7, 2014 December 6, 2014 and for sponsorship reasons was officially known as the TaxSlayer Bowl. Teams This was the third overall meeting between these two teams, with the series tied 1–1. The previous time these two teams met was in 1987. The only other bowl game these two played against each other was the 1982 Peach Bowl, which Iowa won 28–22.Peach Bowl https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/bowls/peach-bowl.html 2025-06-16 College Football at Sports-Reference.com en The Volunteers took the momentum early, scoring on their first four possessions and leading 28–0 before Iowa managed to reach 70 yards. Sophomore quarterback and game MVP Joshua Dobbs ran for two touchdowns and threw for another as the Vols posted their first winning season since going 7–6 in 2009, and earned its first postseason victory since the Phillip Fulmer era, the last being the 2008 Outback Bowl over the Wisconsin Badgers.Outback Bowl News http://www.outbackbowl.com/2008-box-score November 14, 2017 www.outbackbowl.com en Game summary Scoring summary IOWA TENN 1 9:27 TENN 9 80 3:28 RushTD Jalen Hurd 3 good Aaron Medley 0 7 1 2:54 TENN 5 67 1:41 RushTD Jalen Hurd 29 good Aaron Medley 0 14 1 1:31 TENN 1 49 0:13 RecTD Vic Wharton Marlin Lane 49 good Aaron Medley 0 21 2 12:02 TENN 8 62 3:23 RushTD Joshua Dobbs 8 good Aaron Medley 0 28 2 3:43 IOWA 9 71 4:30 RushTD Mark Weisman 3 good Marshall Koehn 7 28 2 0:21 TENN 9 75 3:22 RecTD Von Pearson Joshua Dobbs 19 good Aaron Medley 7 35 3 7:46 TENN 9 75 3:13 RushTD Joshua Dobbs 11 good Aaron Medley 7 42 4 14:29 IOWA 4 46 1:24 RushTD Mark Weisman 1 good Marshall Koehn 14 42 4 8:31 TENN 11 34 5:58 FG 28 Aaron Medley 14 45 4 3:30 IOWA 6 80 2:13 RecTD Ray Hamilton C. J. Beathard 31 good Marshall Koehn 21 45 4 0:20 IOWA 4 75 1:02 RecTD Matt VandeBerg C. J. Beathard 18 good Marshall Koehn 28 45 28 45 Source: 2015 TaxSlayer Bowl Official Game Stats http://archive.statbroadcast.com/68908.pdf Stat Broadcast Statistics Statistics Iowa TENN First downs 23 27 Plays–yards 66–421 73–461 Rushes–yards 35–244 51–283 Passing yards 177 178 Passing: Comp–Att–Int 15–31–1 17–22–1 Time of possession 27:52 32:08 References TaxSlayer Bowl Category:Gator Bowl Category:Iowa Hawkeyes football bowl games Category:Tennessee Volunteers football bowl games Category:January 2015 sports events in the United States TaxSlayer Bowl Category:21st century in Jacksonville, Florida