2014 New Mexico Bowl

American college football game August 2023 December 2025 New Mexico Bowl 9th New Mexico Bowl Gildan December 20 2014 2014 University Stadium Albuquerque, New Mexico Utah State University Utah State Aggies 9–4 Mountain West Matt Wells 7 0 7 7 University of Texas at El Paso UTEP Miners 7–5 C-USA Sean Kugler 3 0 0 3 Utah State by 10Odds Offense: Utah State QB Kent MyersDefense: Utah State LB Zach Vigil Charles Lewis (Sun Belt) 28,725 456,250 ESPN/ESPN Radio Mark Neely, David Diaz-Infante, & Kayce Smith (ESPN)Drew Goodman, Tom Ramsey, & Dave Shore (ESPN Radio) The 2014 New Mexico Bowl was a college football bowl game that was played on December 20, 2014, at University Stadium in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The ninth annual New Mexico Bowl, it pitted the Utah State Aggies of the Mountain West Conference against the UTEP Miners of Conference USA.UTEP, Utah State to Play in the 2014 Gildan New Mexico Bowl It was one of the 2014–15 bowl games that concluded the 2014 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. Utah State beat UTEP by a score of 21–6. Team selection The game featured the Utah State Aggies of the Mountain West Conference against the UTEP Miners of Conference USA. This was the third meeting between these two teams, with Utah State previously leading the series 2–0. The last time these two teams had met was in 1961. Utah State Aggies 2014 Utah State Aggies football team This was Utah State's first New Mexico Bowl. UTEP Miners 2014 UTEP Miners football team This was UTEP's second New Mexico Bowl; the Miners had previously played in the 2010 game, where they lost to the BYU Cougars by a score of 52–24. It was also the Miners' first bowl appearance since that game, where they once again attempted to get their first bowl victory since the 1967 Sun Bowl. Game summary Scoring summary USU UTEP 1 3:10 UTEP 7 60 3:50 FG 32 Jay Mattox 0 3 1 1:52 USU 3 75 1:18 RushTD Kent Myers 48 good Nick Diaz 7 3 3 12:12 USU 7 75 2:28 RushTD Nick Vigil 3 good Nick Diaz 14 3 4 3:02 UTEP 16 54 6:56 FG 34 Jay Mattox 14 6 4 1:33 USU 4 65 1:29 RushTD Joe Hill 11 good Nick Diaz 21 6 21 6 Source: http://www.gildannewmexicobowl.com/uploads/PDFs/2014WEEKLYreleases/2014GildanNMbowlFINALbook.pdf Stats 2014-12-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20141227175630/http://www.gildannewmexicobowl.com/uploads/PDFs/2014WEEKLYreleases/2014GildanNMbowlFINALbook.pdf 2014-12-27 dead Statistics Statistics USU UTEP First downs 16 12 Plays–yards 52–347 70–275Rushes–yards 40–279 46–149 Passing yards 68 126Passing: Comp–Att–Int 5–12–1 13–24–1 Time of possession 23:26 36:34 References 2 New Mexico Bowl Category:New Mexico Bowl Category:Utah State Aggies football bowl games Category:UTEP Miners football bowl games Category:December 2014 sports events in the United States Category:2014 in sports in New Mexico Category:2010s in Albuquerque, New Mexico