# 2015 Miami Beach Bowl

The 2015 Miami Beach Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 21, 2015 at Marlins Park in Miami, Florida. The second edition of the Miami Beach Bowl featured the champions from Conference USA, the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers against the South Florida Bulls of the American Athletic Conference. It began at 2:30 p.m. EST and air on ESPN. It was one of the 2015–16 bowl games that concluded the 2015 FBS football season.

## Teams

The game featured the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers against the South Florida Bulls. It was the seventh overall meeting between these two teams, with South Florida leading the series 4–2 before this game. The last meeting between these two teams was in 2010, when the Bulls beat the Hilltoppers 24–12 in Tampa.

### South Florida Bulls

Sources told ESPN reporter Brett McMurphy that the Bulls had officially been invited to the game and accepted.
This was the Bulls' seventh bowl game (they were previously 4–2 all-time in bowl games) and their first since winning the 2010 Meineke Car Care Bowl over Clemson by a score of 31–26. It was also the Bulls' first bowl game in Florida since winning the 2008 St. Petersburg Bowl (said game's inaugural edition) over Memphis by a score of 41–14.

### Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
## Game summary
### Scoring Summary

Scoring summary :
| Quarter | Time | Drive | Drive | Drive | Team | Scoring information | Score | Score |
| Quarter | Time | Plays | Yards | TOP | Team | Scoring information | WKU | USF |
| 1 | 5:21 | 5 | 62 | 1:54 | USF | Quinton Flowers 12-yard touchdown run, Emilio Nadelman kick good | 0 | 7 |
| 2 | 12:18 | 5 | 47 | 2:03 | USF | Rodney Adams 34-yard touchdown run, Emilio Nadelman kick good | 0 | 14 |
| 2 | 6:17 | 2 | 66 | 0:38 | WKU | Anthony Wales 13-yard touchdown run, Garrett Schwettman kick good | 7 | 14 |
| 2 | 0:00 | 7 | 34 | 1:06 | WKU | 39-yard field goal by Garrett Schwettman | 10 | 14 |
| 3 | 9:43 | 3 | 75 | 0:40 | WKU | Nicholas Norris 69-yard touchdown reception from Brandon Doughty, Garrett Schwettman kick good | 17 | 14 |
| 3 | 7:46 | 3 | 67 | 1:01 | WKU | Nicholas Norris 55-yard touchdown reception from Brandon Doughty, Garrett Schwettman kick good | 24 | 14 |
| 3 | 4:55 | 8 | 92 | 2:51 | USF | Tyre McCants 34-yard touchdown reception from D'Ernest Johnson, Emilio Nadelman kick good | 24 | 21 |
| 3 | 1:56 | 7 | 69 | 2:59 | WKU | Nacarius Fant 9-yard touchdown run, Garrett Schwettman kick good | 31 | 21 |
| 3 | 0:05 | 1 | 26 | 0:06 | WKU | Jared Dangerfield 26-yard touchdown reception from Brandon Doughty, Garrett Schwettman kick good | 38 | 21 |
| 4 | 14:53 | 2 | 82 | 0:12 | USF | Rodney Adams 53-yard touchdown reception from Quinton Flowers, Emilio Nadelman kick good | 38 | 28 |
| 4 | 11:00 | 6 | 75 | 2:09 | USF | Quinton Flowers 8-yard touchdown run, Emilio Nadelman kick good | 38 | 35 |
| 4 | 5:09 | 2 | 64 | 0:49 | WKU | Anthony Wales 42-yard touchdown run, Garrett Schwettman kick good | 45 | 35 |
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### Statistics

| Statistics | WKU | USF |
| First downs | 27 | 28 |
| Plays–yards | 79–612 | 79–597 |
| Rushes–yards | 33–151 | 45–290 |
| Passing yards | 461 | 307 |
| Passing: Comp–Att–Int | 32–46–2 | 15–34–0 |
| Time of possession | 31:28 | 28:32 |
| Team | Category | Player | Statistics |
| WKU | Passing | Brandon Doughty | 32/44, 461 yds, 3 TD, 2 INT |
| WKU | Rushing | Anthony Wales | 14 car, 105 yds, 2 TD |
| WKU | Receiving | Nicholas Norris | 5 rec, 120 yds, 2 TD |
| USF | Passing | Quinton Flowers | 14/32, 273 yds, 1 TD |
| USF | Rushing | Quinton Flowers | 16 car, 108 yds, 2 TD |
| USF | Receiving | Rodney Adams | 6 rec, 130 yds, 1 TD |