2015 New Mexico Bowl

American college football game August 2023 December 2025 New Mexico Bowl Gildan 200px December 19 2015 2015 University Stadium Albuquerque, New Mexico University of Arizona Arizona Wildcats 6–6 Pac-12 Rich Rodriguez 7 21 14 3 University of Nevada Reno New Mexico Lobos 7–5 Mountain West Bob Davie 3 14 14 6 Arizona by 8Odds, Los Angeles Times, December 19, 2015 Offense: Arizona QB Anu SolomonGildanNMbowl GildanNewMexicoBowl 678350179758563329 19 December 2015 2015 Offensive Player of the Game, Anu Solomon.Defense:Arizona LB Scooby Wright IIIGildanNMbowl GildanNewMexicoBowl 678350400282431488 19 December 2015 2015 Defensive Player of the Game, Scooby Wright. Larry Smith (MAC) 30,289 456,250 ESPN/ESPN Radio Eamon McAnaney, Rocky Boiman, & Laura Rutledge (ESPN)Drew Goodman Tom Ramsey, & Marty Cesario (ESPN Radio) 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. Team selection 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.http://www.winsipedia.com/arizona/vs/new-mexico Winsipedia - Arizona Wildcats vs. New Mexico Lobos football series history Arizona Wildcats 2015 Arizona Wildcats football team Arizona head coach Rich Rodriguez had led the Wildcats to bowl appearances in each of his four seasons with the school. Overall, Rodriguez entered with a 4–5 bowl record as the head coach at Arizona (2–1), Michigan (0–1) and West Virginia (2–3). New Mexico Lobos 2015 New Mexico Lobos football team This was the first bowl appearance for the Lobos under fourth-year head coach Bob Davie, who had three previous bowl appearances as the head coach at Notre Dame. UNM entered 3–7–1 all time in bowl games, with their last appearance being a win in the 2007 New Mexico Bowl. The Lobos play their home games at the New Mexico Bowl site – University Stadium – and had a 5–2 record in 2015 at home. Game summary Scoring summary ARIZ UNM 1 9:52 UNM 5 17 2:45 FG 37 Zack Rogers 0 3 1 7:26 ARIZ 2 80 0:31 RecTD Cayleb Jones Anu Solomon 78 good Casey Skowron 7 3 2 14:51 ARIZ 3 77 0:47 RushTD Jared Baker 27 good Casey Skowron 14 3 2 8:50 UNM 6 67 3:04 RushTD Lamar Jordan 31 good Zack Rogers 14 10 2 3:27 ARIZ 4 53 1:18 RushTD Anu Solomon 14 good Casey Skowron 21 10 2 2:19 UNM 3 90 1:08 RecTD Delane Hart-Johnson Lamar Jordan 92 good Zack Rogers 21 17 2 0:30 ARIZ 4 51 1:49 RecTD David Richards Anu Solomon 1 good Casey Skowron 28 17 3 13:56 ARIZ 4 75 1:04 RushTD Jared Baker 32 good Casey Skowron 35 17 3 9:17 UNM 8 72 4:39 RushTD Lamar Jordan 11 good Zack Rogers 35 24 3 7:35 ARIZ 1 4 0:05 RushTD Jared Baker 4 good Casey Skowron 42 24 3 2:02 UNM 10 50 5:33 RushTD Lamar Jordan 3 good Zack Rogers 42 31 4 13:52 UNM 8 40 3:10 RushTD Austin Apodaca 4 run failed 42 37 4 1:32 ARIZ 13 42 5:10 FG 37 Casey Skowron 45 37 45 37 Source: http://stats.statbroadcast.com/statmonitr/?id=112009 2015 New Mexico Bowl: Arizona vs. New Mexico Stats Stat Broadcast 2015-12-19 Statistics Statistics ARIZ UNM First downs 19 25 Plays–yards 56–503 91–522 Rushes–yards 32–174 69–333 Passing yards 329 189 Passing: Comp–Att–Int 13–24–1 10–22–3 Time of possession 19:08 40:52 Team Category Player Statistics ARIZ Passing Anu Solomon 13/24, 329 yds, 2 TD, 1 INT Rushing Jared Baker 12 car, 107 yds, 3 TD Receiving Cayleb Jones 4 rec, 182 yds, 1 TD UNM Passing Lamar Jordan 3/9, 110 yds, 1 TD, 2 INT Rushing Lamar Jordan 21 car, 135 yds, 3 TD Receiving Delane Hart-Johnson 1 rec, 92 yds, 1 TD See also Arizona–New Mexico football rivalry References 2 Category:2015–16 NCAA football bowl games 2015 2015 New Mexico Bowl 2015 New Mexico Bowl Category:December 2015 sports events in the United States Category:2015 in sports in New Mexico Category:2010s in Albuquerque, New Mexico