2015 Miami Beach Bowl


The 2015 Miami Beach Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 21, 2015 at Marlins Park in Miami, Florida. The second edition of the Miami Beach Bowl featured the champions from Conference USA, the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers against the South Florida Bulls of the American Athletic Conference. It began at 2:30 p.m. EST and air on ESPN. It was one of the 2015–16 bowl games that concluded the 2015 FBS football season.

Teams

The game featured the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers against the South Florida Bulls. It was the seventh overall meeting between these two teams, with South Florida leading the series 4–2 before this game. The last meeting between these two teams was in 2010, when the Bulls beat the Hilltoppers 24–12 in Tampa.

South Florida Bulls

Sources told ESPN reporter Brett McMurphy that the Bulls had officially been invited to the game and accepted.
This was the Bulls' seventh bowl game and their first since winning the 2010 Meineke Car Care Bowl over Clemson by a score of 31–26. It was also the Bulls' first bowl game in Florida since winning the 2008 St. Petersburg Bowl over Memphis by a score of 41–14.

Western Kentucky Hilltoppers

Game summary

Scoring Summary

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Statistics

StatisticsWKUUSF
First downs2728
Plays–yards79–61279–597
Rushes–yards33–15145–290
Passing yards461307
Passing: Comp–Att–Int32–46–215–34–0
Time of possession31:2828:32