| Game Name: | Military Bowl |
| Title Sponsor Suffix: | presented by Northrop Grumman |
| Subheader: | 7th Military Bowl |
| Date Game Played: | December 27 |
| Year Game Played: | 2014 |
| Football Season: | 2014 |
| Stadium: | Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium |
| City: | Annapolis, Maryland |
| Visitor School: | University of Cincinnati |
| Visitor Name Short: | Cincinnati |
| Visitor Nickname: | Bearcats |
| Visitor Record: | 9–3 |
| Visitor Conference: | The American |
| Visitor Coach: | Tommy Tuberville |
| Visitor 1Q: | 7 |
| Visitor 2Q: | 3 |
| Visitor 3Q: | 0 |
| Visitor 4Q: | 7 |
| Home School: | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Home Name Short: | Virginia Tech |
| Home Nickname: | Hokies |
| Home Record: | 6–6 |
| Home Conference: | ACC |
| Home Coach: | Frank Beamer |
| Home 1Q: | 7 |
| Home 2Q: | 6 |
| Home 3Q: | 14 |
| Home 4Q: | 6 |
| Odds: | Cincinnati by 2[1] |
| Mvp: | Virginia Tech RB J. C. Coleman[2] |
| Referee: | Kevin Stine (Sun Belt) |
| Attendance: | 34,277 |
| Payout: | 1,000,000 |
| Us Network: | ESPN/ESPN Radio |
| Us Announcers: | Beth Mowins, Joey Galloway, & Paul Carcaterra (ESPN) Eamon McAnaney & Jay Walker (ESPN Radio) |
| Different Previous: | 2013 |
The 2014 Military Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 27, 2014 at Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on the campus of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland in the United States. The seventh annual Military Bowl, it pitted the American Athletic Conference co-champion Cincinnati Bearcats against the Virginia Tech Hokies of the Atlantic Coast Conference.[3] It was one of the 2014–15 bowl games will conclude the 2014 FBS football season. The game started at 1:00 p.m. EST and aired on ESPN. It was sponsored by aerospace and defense technology company Northrop Grumman and is officially known as the Military Bowl Presented by Northrop Grumman.
The game featured the Virginia Tech Hokies of the Atlantic Coast Conference against the American Athletic Conference co-champion Cincinnati Bearcats. Whit Babcock, the Hokies' director of athletics, previously held the same position at Cincinnati and hired Bearcats' coach Tommy Tuberville.[4]
This was 11th overall meeting between these two teams, with series tied 5–5 before the game. The previous time these two teams met was in 2012. This was also the third bowl game between these two teams, the others being the 1947 Sun Bowl and the 2009 Orange Bowl.
See also: 2014 Cincinnati Bearcats football team. After finishing their regular season with a 9–3 record and winning the American Athletic Conference co-championship, the Bearcats accepted their invitation to play in the game.[5]
See also: 2014 Virginia Tech Hokies football team. After finishing their regular season with a 6–6 record, the Hokies accepted their invitation to play in the game.[6]
Source: [7]
| Statistics | CIN | VT |
|---|---|---|
| First downs | 19 | 18 |
| Plays–yards | 70–489 | 69–334 |
| Rushes–yards | 33–144 | 44–210 |
| Passing yards | 345 | 124 |
| Passing: Comp–Att–Int | 18–37–2 | 15–25–1 |
| Time of possession | 29:04 | 30:56 |