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The 2015 Sugar Bowl was a college football game that was played on January 1, 2015 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was the 81st Sugar Bowl, and a semifinal game in the College Football Playoff. It was one of the 2014–15 bowl games that concluded the 2014 FBS football season.
The Sugar Bowl and Rose Bowl placed second and third all-time, respectively, with 28.27 million and 28.16 million viewers each. The national championship was also the most-streamed ESPN broadcast outside of the FIFA World Cup. [35] The title game earned a Nielsen rating of 18.2, also a cable television record. [36]
The teams playing for the national championship were the winners of semifinal bowl games held on January 1, 2015. The semifinal games were the Rose Bowl in Pasadena and the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. The semifinal participants were chosen and ranked 1–4 by the 13-member playoff selection committee, with 1 playing 4 and 2 playing 3. [14] [15]
14. Pop-Tarts Bowl (Dec. 28, 3:30 p.m., ABC) Miami (Florida) (10-2) vs. Iowa State (10-3) When you narrowly miss out on your conference title the reward is the possibility of eating a giant Pop ...
In July 2013, the Cotton Bowl Classic, the Fiesta Bowl, and the Peach Bowl were selected as the other three rotating semifinal playoff bowls, ahead of the Holiday Bowl. Also, the conference commissioners selected AT&T Stadium as the first host of the College Football Playoff National Championship game, held on January 12, 2015.
2. Alamo Bowl - No. 17 Brigham Young vs. No. 22 Colorado. Date, time, TV: Dec. 28, 7:30 p.m. ET, ABC.Location: San Antonio, Texas. Had a few tiebreakers lined up ...
The 2014–15 postseason was the first to feature a College Football Playoff (CFP) to determine a national champion of Division I FBS college football. Four teams were selected by a 13-member committee to participate in a single-elimination tournament, whose semifinals were held at the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl as part of a yearly rotation of six bowls.
The No. 7 Fighting Irish will play Penn State in the Orange Bowl after beating the No. 2 Bulldogs, 23-10. College Football Playoff: Notre Dame gets marquee Sugar Bowl win over Georgia to advance ...