# 2015 Hawaii Bowl

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.

## Teams

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.

### Cincinnati Bearcats

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.

### San Diego State Aztecs

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.

## Game summary
### Scoring Summary

Scoring summary :
| Quarter | Time | Drive | Drive | Drive | Team | Scoring information | Score | Score |
| Quarter | Time | Plays | Yards | TOP | Team | Scoring information | SDSU | CIN |
| 1 | 14:45 | – | – | – | SDSU | Rashaad Penny 100-yard kick return, Donny Hageman kick good | 7 | 0 |
| 1 | 9:08 | 9 | 85 | 4:32 | SDSU | Mikah Holder 14-yard touchdown reception from Christian Chapman, Donny Hageman kick good | 14 | 0 |
| 2 | 2:02 | 4 | 56 | 1:49 | SDSU | Dakota Gordon 16-yard touchdown reception from Donnel Pumphrey, Donny Hageman kick good | 21 | 0 |
| 3 | 5:14 | 8 | 67 | 3:30 | SDSU | Dakota Gordon 1-yard touchdown run, Donny Hageman kick good | 28 | 0 |
| 4 | 11:29 | 11 | 85 | 6:54 | SDSU | Donnel Pumphrey 2-yard touchdown run, Donny Hageman kick good | 35 | 0 |
| 4 | 9:04 | – | – | – | SDSU | Interception returned 43 yards for touchdown by Alex Barrett, Donny Hageman kick good | 42 | 0 |
| 4 | 3:21 | 12 | 73 | 5:35 | CIN | Mike Boone 1-yard touchdown run, Andrew Gantz kick good | 42 | 7 |
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### Statistics

| 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 |