2012 Music City Bowl
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| 2012 Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 15th Music City Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
 LP Field in Nashville, Tennessee, hosted the Music City Bowl. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 31, 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | LP Field | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Nashville, Tennessee | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Zac Stacy (RB- Vanderbilt) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Vanderbilt by 6[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Ron Snodgrass (MAC) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 55,801 [2] | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Carter Blackburn (Play-by-Play) Rod Gilmore (Analyst) Jemele Hill (Sidelines) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2012 Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game held on December 31, 2012, at LP Field in Nashville, Tennessee. The fifteenth edition of the Music City Bowl began at 11:05 a.m. CST and aired on ESPN. It featured the NC State Wolfpack from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) against the Vanderbilt Commodores from the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and was the final game of the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season for both teams. The Wolfpack accepted their invitation to the game after attaining a 7–5 regular-season record, while the hometown Commodores accepted theirs after attaining an 8–4 record.[3]