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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 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. [16] [17]
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 last time Texas made the Sugar Bowl, the Longhorns earned an upset win that they hoped would put them back on the map as one of college football's blue bloods.. Exactly five years ago, then-No ...
That victory set up Alabama’s first game against Ohio State since the 2015 Sugar Bowl and this time, Alabama was by far the superior team. The Crimson Tide scored 28 points in the second quarter ...
Stationed at the Washington 13-yard line in the waning seconds of Monday night's Sugar Bowl, No. 3 Texas threw three straight incomplete passes, including two into the end zone, a sequence that ...
The 2015–16 postseason was the second to feature a College Football Playoff (CFP) to determine a national champion of Division I FBS college football. Four teams were selected by a 12-member committee to participate in a single-elimination tournament, whose semifinals were held at the Orange Bowl and the Cotton Bowl as part of a yearly rotation of six bowls.
For a second time, Texas had jumped the gun. And this time it was so much worse. Texas went 8-5 in 2019 and 7-3 in a shortened 2020, winning two Alamo Bowls in the process.