2024 Music City Bowl
| 2024 TransPerfect Music City Bowl | |||||||||||||||||
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| 26th Music City Bowl | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 30, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Nissan Stadium | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | Nashville, Tennessee | ||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Missouri by 1.5 | ||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Michael Roche (ACC)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Taylor Zarzour (play-by-play), Matt Stinchcomb (analyst), and Alyssa Lang (sideline) (ESPN) Kevin Winter (play-by-play) and Orlando Franklin (analyst) (ESPN Radio) | ||||||||||||||||
The 2024 Music City Bowl, also known as the 2024 TransPerfect Music City Bowl for sponsorship reasons, is a college football bowl game that is scheduled to be played on December 30, 2024, at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee. The 26th annual Music City Bowl game will feature the 9–3 Missouri Tigers going up against the 8–4 Iowa Hawkeyes. The game is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. CST and will air on ESPN.[2][3] The Music City Bowl will be one of the 2024–25 bowl games that will conclude the 2024 FBS football season.
Teams
[edit]Consistent with conference tie-ins, the game will feature teams from the Big Ten Conference and the Southeastern Conference.
This will be the 14th meeting in the series between Iowa and Missouri—with 12 of the prior meetings held before 1911, and 5 before 1900[4]—and the second time the teams will face off in a bowl game. The Hawkeyes defeated the Tigers in the 2010 Insight Bowl, 27–24. These two teams were selected to compete in the 2020 Music City Bowl but the game was cancelled due to complications regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.[5]
Iowa Hawkeyes
[edit]The Hawkeyes enter the game with an 8–4 record (6–3 in the B1G), having finished tied for fifth place in the conference standings.
This is Iowa's second Music City Bowl. The Hawkeyes previously won the 2022 edition (21–0 vs. Kentucky).
Missouri Tigers
[edit]The Tigers enter the game with a 9–3 record (6–3 in the SEC), tied for fourth place in the conference standings, and landed at No. 19 in the final CFP ranking.
This will be Missouri's first Music City Bowl.
Game summary
[edit]| Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| Iowa | - | - | - | - | 0 |
| No. 19 Missouri | - | - | - | - | 0 |
at Nissan Stadium • Nashville, Tennessee
- Date: Monday, December 30, 2024
- Game time: 2:30 p.m. EST
- TV announcers (ESPN): Taylor Zarzour (play-by-play), Matt Stinchcomb (analyst), and Alyssa Lang (sideline)
Statistics
[edit]| Statistics | IOWA | MIZ |
|---|---|---|
| First downs | ||
| Plays–yards | – | – |
| Rushes–yards | – | – |
| Passing yards | ||
| Passing: comp–att–int | –– | –– |
| Time of possession |
| Team | Category | Player | Statistics |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | Passing | ||
| Rushing | |||
| Receiving | |||
| Missouri | Passing | ||
| Rushing | |||
| Receiving |
References
[edit]- ^ Austro, Ben (December 9, 2024). "2024-25 bowl officiating assignments". footballzebras.com. Retrieved December 11, 2024.
- ^ Cobb, David (June 6, 2024). "2024-25 college football bowl schedule, games, dates, locations, kickoff times, TV channels". CBS Sports. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ Kelley, Kevin. "College football bowl schedule for 2024-25 season released". FBSchedules.com. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ "Winsipedia - Missouri Tigers vs. Iowa Hawkeyes football series history games list". Winsipedia. Archived from the original on December 3, 2024. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
- ^ Cobb, David (December 27, 2020). "2020 Music City Bowl canceled as COVID-19 outbreak forces Missouri to pull out of game vs. Iowa". CBSSports.com. Archived from the original on December 23, 2024. Retrieved December 23, 2024.