2015 Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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Date | December 29, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
Season | 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stadium | Amon G. Carter Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | Fort Worth, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||
MVP |
Jared Goff (Cal-QB) Karson Roberts (AF-QB) |
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Favorite | California by 7½ | ||||||||||||||||||
Referee | Matt Loeffler (SEC) | ||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 38,915 | ||||||||||||||||||
Payout | US$TBD | ||||||||||||||||||
United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
Network | ESPN/RedVoice LLC | ||||||||||||||||||
Announcers |
Dave Flemming, Mike Bellotti, & Allison Williams (ESPN) Brian Estridge, John Denton, Rob Best, & Landry Burdine (RedVoice) |
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The 2015 Armed Forces Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 29, 2015 at Amon G. Carter Stadium on the campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. The 13th edition of the Armed Forces Bowl featured the California Golden Bears of the Pac-12 Conference against the Air Force Falcons of the Mountain West Conference. It began at 2:03 p.m. CST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2015–16 bowl games that concluded the 2015 FBS football season. Sponsored by aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin, it was officially known as the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl.
The game featured the California Golden Bears against the Air Force Falcons. It was a rematch of the 2007 Armed Forces Bowl (the first for both teams), which saw California defeat Air Force by a score of 42–36.
After finishing their regular season 7–5, the Golden Bears accepted their invitation to play in the game.