2014 BBVA Compass Bowl
The 2014 BBVA Compass Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was played on January 4, 2014 at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. The eighth edition of the BBVA Compass Bowl (which was originally called the Birmingham Bowl), it featured the Vanderbilt Commodores of the Southeastern Conference and the Houston Cougars of the American Athletic Conference. It was one of the 2013–14 bowl games that concluded the 2013 FBS football season. The game began at 12:00 p.m. CST and was telecast on ESPN. It was sponsored by the BBVA Compass banking company. Vanderbilt defeated Houston by a score of 41–24.
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| Date | January 4, 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Legion Field | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Birmingham, Alabama | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Vanderbilt by 2½ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Steve LaMantia (C-USA) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 42,717 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$900,000 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Dave Neal (play-by-play), Andre Ware (analyst), Dawn Davenport (sideline) | ||||||||||||||||||
Both the Commodores and the Cougars accepted their invitations after earning 8–4 records in their respective season schedules. This was the first BBVA Compass Bowl for both Vanderbilt and Houston, as well as the first time the schools had played each other in football.