| 2014 Zaxby's Heart of Dallas Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 5th Heart of Dallas Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 26, 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Cotton Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Fair Park Dallas, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Houston Bates (LB, Louisiana Tech)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Louisiana Tech by 7[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Land Clark[3] (Pac-12) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 31,297[3] | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN & RedVoice LLC | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Mike Corey, Charles Arbuckle, & Kayce Smith (ESPN) Brian Estridge, John Denton, Rob Best, and Landry Burdine (RedVoice LLC) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2014 Heart of Dallas Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on December 26, 2014 at the Cotton Bowl at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas. The fifth edition of the Heart of Dallas Bowl featured the Illinois Fighting Illini against the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs.[4] The game was played at 1:00 p.m. CST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2014–15 bowl games that concluded the 2014 FBS football season. The game is sponsored by the Zaxby's chicken restaurant franchise and is officially known as the Zaxby's Heart of Dallas Bowl.
Louisiana Tech beat Illinois by a score of 35–18.[5]
This was the second overall meeting between these two teams, with the Bulldogs winning the first matchup in 2012.
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