2015 Armed Forces Bowl (January)
The 2015 Armed Forces Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was played on January 2, 2015, at Amon G. Carter Stadium on the campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. The twelfth annual Armed Forces Bowl, it matched the Houston Cougars of the American Athletic Conference against the Pittsburgh Panthers of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The game began at 11:00 a.m. CST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2014–15 bowl games that concluded the 2014 FBS football season.
| 2015 Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 12th Armed Forces Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | January 2, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Amon G. Carter Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Fort Worth, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Houston RB Kenneth Farrow | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Pittsburgh by 5.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Brad Rogers (C-USA) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 37,888 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$675,000 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN/RedVoice LLC | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Tom Hart, Matt Stinchcomb, & Heather Mitts (ESPN) Brian Estridge, John Denton, Rob Best, & Landy Burdine (RedVoice LLC) | ||||||||||||||||||
The bowl was the first to be sponsored by aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin (which has two of its divisions headquartered in the DFW area); as such, for sponsorship purposes the game was officially known as the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl.
With less than 11 minutes left on the game clock, Houston trailed Pittsburgh by 25 points, but the Cougars came back to win 35–34. It was the biggest fourth quarter comeback in bowl history.