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The 2014 Sugar Bowl was a college football bowl game played on Thursday, January 2, 2014, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The 80th annual Sugar Bowl , it featured the #10 (AP ranked), #11 (BCS ranked) Oklahoma Sooners of the Big 12 Conference and the #3-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide of the Southeastern Conference .
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 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]
Ten years ago, Oklahoma defeated Alabama in a magical Sugar Bowl performance. The Sooners will look for the same on Saturday: Oklahoma-Alabama 2014 Sugar Bowl, revisited: Stats, highlights from ...
Starting with the 2014–15 postseason, six College Football Playoff (CFP) bowl games host two semifinal playoff games on a rotating basis. For the 2014-15 season, the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl hosted the semifinal games, with the winners advancing to the 2015 College Football Playoff National Championship at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas ...
Former OU defensive back Aaron Colvin claimed the Sooners consumed alcohol before their 2014 Sugar Bowl win over Alabama.
Three of the bowls had traditional tie-ins with the specified conference champions in the years they were not hosting playoff games (2014–2023): Rose Bowl: Big Ten vs. Pac-12 [5] Sugar Bowl: SEC vs. Big 12 [3] Orange Bowl: ACC vs. Big Ten, SEC, or Notre Dame [6]
Sugar Bowl officials from the Big 12. Referee David Alvarez — Ralph D. Russo (@ralphDrussoAP) January 2, 2021