the last time notre dame won a music city bowl game was december 30, 2014.
the last time notre dame won a music city bowl game was december 30, 2014.
when was the last time notre dame won a music city bowl game?
december 30, 2014
the 2014 music city bowl was an american college football bowl game played on december 30, 2014 at lp field in nashville, tennessee. the 17th edition of the music city bowl began at approximately 2:00 p.m. cst and was broadcast nationally by espn. it featured the notre dame fighting irish, and the lsu tigers from the sec. it was one of the final 2014-15 bowl games of the 2014 fbs football season. the game was sponsored by the franklin american mortgage company and is officially known as the franklin american mortgage music city bowl. notre dame defeated louisiana state by a final score of 31–28.
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the music city bowl has a history of upsets. the biggest underdog win was when kentucky (+10) defeated clemson 28–20 in 2006. other big upsets include minnesota (+7) defeating arkansas 29–14 in 2002 and virginia (+6) defeating minnesota 34–31 in 2005. boston college was a 4-point underdog when they defeated georgia 20–16 in 2001, west virginia was a 3-point underdog when they beat mississippi in 2000, syracuse was a 3-point underdog when they defeated kentucky in 1999 and minnesota was a 1-point underdog when they beat alabama in 2004. boston college also fell victim to an upset in the music city bowl in 2008, when the vanderbilt commodores (+4), making their first bowl appearance since 1982, defeated the 24th-ranked eagles 16–14. the only favored teams to have won the music city bowl are virginia tech (−5) over alabama in the first music city bowl in 1998, auburn (−3) over wisconsin in 2003, kentucky (−7) over florida state in 2007, mississippi state (-6.5) over wake forest in 2011, vanderbilt (-7.5) over nc state in the 2012 music city bowl, and tennessee (-3) over nebraska in the 2016 music city bowl.
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