| Game Name: | Hawaii Bowl |
| Subheader: | 14th Hawaii Bowl |
| Date Game Played: | December 24 |
| Year Game Played: | 2015 |
| Football Season: | 2015 |
| Stadium: | Aloha Stadium |
| City: | Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Visitor School: | San Diego State University |
| Visitor Name Short: | San Diego State |
| Visitor Nickname: | Aztecs |
| Visitor Record: | 10–3 |
| Visitor Conference: | Mountain West |
| Visitor Coach: | Rocky Long |
| Visitor 1Q: | 14 |
| Visitor 2Q: | 7 |
| Visitor 3Q: | 7 |
| Visitor 4Q: | 14 |
| Home School: | University of Cincinnati |
| Home Name Short: | Cincinnati |
| Home Nickname: | Bearcats |
| Home Record: | 7–5 |
| Home Conference: | The American |
| Home Coach: | Tommy Tuberville |
| Home 1Q: | 0 |
| Home 2Q: | 0 |
| Home 3Q: | 0 |
| Home 4Q: | 7 |
| Odds: | Cincinnati by 2½[1] |
| Mvp: | San Diego State FB Dakota Gordon[2] |
| Referee: | Rodney Burnette (C-USA) |
| Attendance: | 22,793 |
| Payout: | TBD |
| Us Network: | ESPN/ESPN Radio |
| Us Announcers: | Adam Amin, Greg McElroy, & Holly Rowe (ESPN) Kevin Winter, Mike Golic, & Mike Golic, Jr. (ESPN Radio) |
The 2015 Hawaii Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 24, 2015 at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The fourteenth edition of the Hawaii Bowl featured the Cincinnati Bearcats of the American Athletic Conference against the San Diego State Aztecs from the Mountain West Conference. It began at 3:15 p.m. HST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2015–16 bowl games that concluded the 2015 FBS football season.[3]
The game featured the Cincinnati Bearcats, with a record of 7–5, against San Diego State, with a record of 10-3 and on a 9-game winning streak going into the game. The Aztecs defeated the Bearcats by a score of 42-7.
See also: 2015 Cincinnati Bearcats football team.
This was the Bearcats' 17th bowl game (they were 8–8 all-time in bowl games), their fifth consecutive bowl appearance, and their first bowl game in Hawaii.
See also: 2015 San Diego State Aztecs football team. San Diego State, playing its sixth straight bowl game, had won all of its eight regular conference games this year. They then defeated Air Force, 27-24 in the title game for the school's 20th football conference championship. Head coach Rocky Long is among 13 active coaches to have guided his current team to a bowl game during his first five seasons as the head man. This was also the Aztecs' first bowl game in Hawaii since 1952.
Source: [4]
| Statistics | SDSU | CIN |
|---|---|---|
| First downs | 22 | 15 |
| Plays–yards | 64–336 | 63–279 |
| Rushes–yards | 52–207 | 32–77 |
| Passing yards | 129 | 202 |
| Passing: Comp–Att–Int | 9–12–0 | 19–31–3 |
| Time of possession | 35:34 | 24:26 |