2014 New Orleans Bowl
| 2014 R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 14th New Orleans Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 20, 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Mercedes-Benz Superdome | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | New Orleans, Louisiana | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Louisiana–Lafayette QB Terrance Broadway | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Nevada by 1.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| National anthem | MacKenzie Bourg | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Greg Blum (MAC) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 34,014 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$500,000 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN/ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Bob Wischusen, Mack Brown, & Kaylee Hartung (ESPN) Bill Rosinski, David Norrie, & Joe Schad (ESPN Radio) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2014 New Orleans Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 20, 2014 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The fourteenth annual New Orleans Bowl, it pitted the Nevada Wolf Pack of the Mountain West Conference against the Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns of the Sun Belt Conference. The game began at 10:00 a.m. CST and aired on ESPN. It was the first of the 2014–15 bowl games that concluded the 2014 FBS football season. Sponsored by freight shipping company R+L Carriers, the game was officially known as the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl. Louisiana–Lafayette beat Nevada by a score of 16–3.