2015 Hawaii Bowl

August 2023 May 2026 Hawaii Bowl 14th Hawaii Bowl December 24 2015 2015 Aloha Stadium Honolulu, Hawaii San Diego State University San Diego State Aztecs 10–3 Mountain West Rocky Long 14 7 7 14 University of Cincinnati Cincinnati Bearcats 7–5 The American Tommy Tuberville 0 0 0 7 Cincinnati by 2½Odds, Los Angeles Times, December 10, 2015 San Diego State FB Dakota Gordonhttps://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2015/12/24/san-diego-state-beats-cincinnati-42-7-in-hawaii-bowl/77901414/ San Diego State clobbers Cincinnati 42-7 in Hawaii Bowl December 25, 2015 usatoday.com Associated Press December 26, 2015 San Diego State fullback Dakota Gordon does a lot more than just block for the Aztecs. He showed it in the Hawaii Bowl and ended up with the most valuable player award. Rodney Burnette (C-USA) 22,793 TBD ESPN/ESPN Radio Adam Amin, Greg McElroy, & Holly Rowe (ESPN)Kevin Winter, Mike Golic, & Mike Golic, Jr. (ESPN Radio) The 2015 Hawaii Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 24, 2015 at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The fourteenth edition of the Hawaii Bowl featured the Cincinnati Bearcats of the American Athletic Conference against the San Diego State Aztecs from the Mountain West Conference. It began at 3:15 p.m. HST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2015–16 bowl games that concluded the 2015 FBS football season.http://www.sheratonhawaiibowl.com/pr/20150521.html SHERATON HAWAII BOWL 23 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20160305020217/http://www.sheratonhawaiibowl.com/pr/20150521.html 5 March 2016 dead dmy-all Teams The game featured the Cincinnati Bearcats, with a record of 7–5, against San Diego State, with a record of 10-3 and on a 9-game winning streak going into the game. The Aztecs defeated the Bearcats by a score of 42-7. Cincinnati Bearcats 2015 Cincinnati Bearcats football team This was the Bearcats' 17th bowl game (they were 8–8 all-time in bowl games), their fifth consecutive bowl appearance, and their first bowl game in Hawaii. San Diego State Aztecs 2015 San Diego State Aztecs football team San Diego State, playing its sixth straight bowl game, had won all of its eight regular conference games this year. They then defeated Air Force, 27-24 in the title game for the school's 20th football conference championship. Head coach Rocky Long is among 13 active coaches to have guided his current team to a bowl game during his first five seasons as the head man. This was also the Aztecs' first bowl game in Hawaii since 1952. Game summary Scoring Summary SDSU CIN 1 14:45 SDSU – – – Other Rashaad Penny 100-yard kick return, Donny Hageman kick good 7 0 1 9:08 SDSU 9 85 4:32 RecTD Mikah Holder Christian Chapman 14 good Donny Hageman 14 0 2 2:02 SDSU 4 56 1:49 RecTD Dakota Gordon Donnel Pumphrey 16 good Donny Hageman 21 0 3 5:14 SDSU 8 67 3:30 RushTD Dakota Gordon 1 good Donny Hageman 28 0 4 11:29 SDSU 11 85 6:54 RushTD Donnel Pumphrey 2 good Donny Hageman 35 0 4 9:04 SDSU – – – IntTD Alex Barrett 43 good Donny Hageman 42 0 4 3:21 CIN 12 73 5:35 RushTD Mike Boone 1 good Andrew Gantz 42 7 42 7 Source: http://stats.statbroadcast.com/statmonitr/?id=112010&a=1 2015 Hawaii Bowl: San Diego State vs. Cincinnati Stats Stat Broadcast 2015-12-24 Statistics Statistics SDSU CIN First downs 22 15 Plays–yards 64–336 63–279 Rushes–yards 52–207 32–77 Passing yards 129 202 Passing: Comp–Att–Int 9–12–0 19–31–3 Time of possession 35:34 24:26 References Hawaii Bowl Category:Hawaii Bowl Category:Cincinnati Bearcats football bowl games Category:San Diego State Aztecs football bowl games Category:December 2015 sports events in the United States Hawaii Bowl Category:2010s in Honolulu