2015 Independence Bowl

August 2023 March 2026 Independence Bowl 40th Independence Bowl Camping World December 26 2015 2015 Independence Stadium Shreveport, Louisiana University of Tulsa Tulsa Golden Hurricane 6–6 The American Philip Montgomery 21 10 6 15 Virginia Tech Virginia Tech Hokies 6–6 ACC Frank Beamer 24 21 7 3 Va. Tech by 13½Odds, Los Angeles Times, December 10, 2015 Cooper Castleberry (Big XII) 31,289 TBD ESPN/Sports USA Dave LaMont, Ray Bentley, & Jane Slater (ESPN) Eli Gold, Phil Savage, & Darrell Rebouche (Sports USA) The 2015 Independence Bowl was a college football bowl game that was played on Saturday, December 26, 2015 at Independence Stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana in the United States. The 40th annual Independence Bowl featured the Virginia Tech Hokies of the Atlantic Coast Conference against the Tulsa Golden Hurricane of the American Athletic Conference. Sponsored by Camping World, the game was officially known as the Camping World Independence Bowl."Independence Bowl Confirms Camping World Is New Title Sponsor", KSLA News, July 16, 2015. Retrieved July 26, 2015. The first half of the game, in which 76 points were scored, was the highest scoring half in college football bowl history until the second half of the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl the next year., Saturday Down South, December 27, 2015. Retrieved July 8, 2016.Idaho outscores Colorado State in Potato Bowl https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2016/12/22/idaho-outscores-colorado-state-61-50-in-potato-bowl/95782106/ USA TODAY April 18, 2021 Montgomery would later become the offensive coordinator and interim head coach for the Hokies in 2025. Team selection The game was to feature a team from the Atlantic Coast Conference against a team from the Southeastern Conference. However, college football analyst Phil Steele projected prior to the game that neither an ACC nor an SEC team would be selected for the game, projecting that the Minnesota Golden Gophers of the Big Ten Conference and the San Jose State Spartans of the Mountain West Conference would be selected for the game instead.http://www.philsteele.com/bowls/15-16/bowlprojections.html 2015–2016 Bowl Projections Steele Phil Phil Steele PhilSteele.com 2014-11-15 Virginia Tech was chosen from the ACC, and Tulsa was chosen after the SEC did not have enough eligible teams. Virginia Tech Hokies 2015 Virginia Tech Hokies football team With the announcement that he would retire after the season, Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer took the field one last time to coach the Hokies in the Independence Bowl. Beamer has led the Hokies to 23 straight bowl appearances in 25 seasons as an FBS team (Beamer has coached at VT for a total of 29 seasons). He held a 10–12 career bowl record going into this game. The Hokies won their final game of the season over rival Virginia on a last-second INT, gaining bowl eligibility and extending Beamer's career one more game. Tulsa Golden Hurricane 2015 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team This was Tulsa's first bowl appearance since a 31–17 win over Iowa State in the 2012 Liberty Bowl. It was also the first career bowl appearance for first-year head coach Philip Montgomery. The Golden Hurricane program was 9–10 all-time in bowl games but was 5–3 since 2003. Montgomery would later become the offensive coordinator and interim head coach for the Hokies in 2025. Game summary Scoring summary TLS VT 1 14:14 TLS 4 75 0:46 RushTD D'Angelo Brewer 48 good Redford Jones 7 0 1 12:53 VT 3 63 1:21 RushTD Travon McMillian 51 good Joey Slye 7 7 1 11:54 TLS 5 75 0:59 RushTD Zack Langer 2 good Redford Jones 14 7 1 11:42 VT 1 75 0:12 RecTD Isaiah Ford Michael Brewer 75 good Joey Slye 14 14 1 9:53 VT 4 4 0:56 FG Joey Slye 27 14 17 1 5:28 VT 8 76 2:48 RushTD Sam Rogers 14 good Joey Slye 14 24 1 2:19 TLS 9 75 3:09 RecTD Bishop Louie Dane Evans 9 good Redford Jones 21 24 2 13:09 VT 10 75 4:10 RushTD Bucky Hodges 16 good Joey Slye 21 31 2 9:09 VT 7 80 3:05 RushTD Travon McMillian 1 good Joey Slye 21 38 2 7:11 VT Other Greg Stroman 67 yard punt return for a touchdown, Joey Slye kick good 21 45 2 2:26 TLS 12 65 4:45 FG Redford Jones 29 24 45 2 0:20 TLS 6 64 0:45 RushTD D'Angelo Brewer 10 good Redford Jones 31 45 3 7:38 VT 15 81 7:22 RushTD Trey Edmunds 1 good Joey Slye 31 52 3 4:11 TLS 1 9 0:04 RushTD Dane Evans 9 failed Redford Jones 37 52 4 11:09 VT 6 38 2:32 FG Joey Slye 41 37 55 4 7:35 TLS 9 75 3:34 RecTD Josh Atkinson Dane Evans 21 pass from Dane Evans to Keyarris Garrett good 45 55 4 3:47 TLS 7 76 2:08 RecTD Keyarris Garrett Dane Evans 36 good Redford Jones 52 55 52 55 http://stats.statbroadcast.com/statmonitr/?id=113163&a=1 2015 Independence Bowl: Tulsa vs. Virginia Tech Stat Broadcast 2015-12-26 Statistics Statistics TLS VT First downs 27 30 Total offense, plays - yards 83–563 81–598Rushes-yards (net) 39–189 43–254 Passing yards (net) 374 344Passes, Comp-Att-Int 27–44–0 23–38–1 Time of Possession 26:20 33:40 References Independence Bowl Category:Independence Bowl Category:Tulsa Golden Hurricane football bowl games Category:Virginia Tech Hokies football bowl games Independence Bowl Category:December 2015 sports events in the United States