2014 Music City Bowl

The 2014 Music City Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on December 30, 2014 at LP Field in Nashville, Tennessee. The 17th edition of the Music City Bowl began at approximately 2:00 p.m. CST and was broadcast nationally by ESPN. It featured the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and the LSU Tigers from the SEC.^[4] It was one of the final 2014-15 bowl games of the 2014 FBS football season. The game was sponsored by the Franklin American Mortgage Company and is officially known as the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl. Notre Dame defeated Louisiana State by a final score of 31–28.

2014 Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl
17th Music City Bowl
LP Field in Nashville, Tennessee, hosted the Music City Bowl.
Notre Dame Fighting Irish LSU Tigers (7–5) (8–4) Independent SEC 31 28 Head coach:  Brian Kelly Head coach:  Les Miles AP Coaches CFP 22 23 23
1 2 3 4 Total Notre Dame 7 14 7 3 31 LSU 7 7 14 0 28
Date	December 30, 2014
Season	2014
Stadium	LP Field
Location	Nashville, Tennessee
MVP	QB Malik Zaire, Notre Dame[1]
Favorite	LSU by 8.5
National anthem	Jonathan Jackson[2]
Referee	Michael Batlan[3] (Pac-12)
Attendance	60,419[3]
United States TV coverage
Network	ESPN ESPN Radio
Announcers	Mark Jones, Rod Gilmore, Jessica Mendoza (ESPN) Mark Neely, David Diaz-Infante, Dawn Davenport (ESPN Radio)
Music City Bowl  ← 2013  2015 →

Teams

The game was the eleventh overall meeting between these two teams, with the series previously tied 5–5. The last time these two teams met was in 2006.^[5] It represented the third bowl game between these two teams; the previous bowls were the 1997 Independence Bowl and the 2007 Sugar Bowl.

LSU Tigers

Main article: 2014 LSU Tigers football team

Notre Dame

Main article: 2014 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team

Game summary

Scoring summary

Scoring summary

Quarter Time Drive Team Scoring information Score Plays Yards TOP ND LSU 1 7:04 15 66 7:56 ND Will Fuller 12-yard touchdown reception from Malik Zaire, Kyle Brindza kick good 7 0 1 0:05 8 76 2:36 LSU Leonard Fournette 8-yard touchdown run, Trent Domingue kick good 7 7 2 11:04 11 75 4:01 ND Malik Zaire 7-yard touchdown run, Kyle Brindza kick good 14 7 2 10:52 – – – LSU Kickoff returned 100 yards for touchdown by Leonard Fournette, Trent Domingue kick good 14 14 2 6:12 10 59 4:40 ND Tarean Folston 6-yard touchdown run, Kyle Brindza kick good 21 14 3 14:46 1 75 0:14 LSU John Diarse 75-yard touchdown reception from Anthony Jennings, Trent Domingue kick good 21 21 3 6:14 1 89 0:12 LSU Leonard Fournette 89-yard touchdown run, Trent Domingue kick good 21 28 3 4:15 4 67 1:59 ND C. J. Prosise 50-yard touchdown run, Kyle Brindza kick good 28 28 4 0:00 14 71 5:41 ND 32-yard field goal by Kyle Brindza 31 28 "TOP" = time of possession. For other American football terms, see Glossary of American football. 31 28

Source:^[6]

Statistics

Statistics[3]	ND	LSU
First downs	23	17
Plays–yards	69–448	52–436
Rushes–yards	51–263	38–285
Passing yards	185	151
Passing: Comp–Att–Int	18–26–0	7–14–0
Time of possession	37:00	23:00