2024 Music City Bowl
Postseason college football bowl game
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The 2024 Music City Bowl, officially known as the 2024 TransPerfect Music City Bowl, was a college football bowl game played on December 30, 2024, at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee. The 26th annual Music City Bowl game featured the 9–3 Missouri Tigers going up against the 8–4 Iowa Hawkeyes. The game began at approximately 1:30 p.m. CST and aired on ESPN.[2][3] The Music City Bowl was one of the 2024–25 bowl games that concluded the 2024 FBS football season. The title sponsor of the game was the TransPerfect translation and language services company.
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| 26th Music City Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee, hosted the Music City Bowl. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 30, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Nissan Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Nashville, Tennessee | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Brady Cook (QB, Missouri) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Missouri by 1.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Michael Roche (ACC)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 43,375 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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) | ||||||||||||||||||
Teams
Consistent with conference tie-ins, the game featured teams from the Big Ten Conference and the Southeastern Conference (SEC).
This was 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 faced 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
The Hawkeyes entered the game with an 8–4 record (6–3 in the B1G), having finished tied for fifth place in the conference standings.
This was Iowa's second Music City Bowl. The Hawkeyes previously won the 2022 edition (21–0 vs. Kentucky).
Missouri Tigers
The Tigers entered the game with a 9–3 record (5–3 in the SEC), tied for fourth place in the conference standings, and landed at No. 19 in the final College Football Playoff (CFP) ranking.
This was Missouri's first Music City Bowl.
Game summary
| Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| Iowa | 14 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 24 |
| No. 19 Missouri | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 27 |
at Nissan Stadium • Nashville, Tennessee
- Date: Monday, December 30, 2024
- Game time: 2:34 p.m. EST
- Game weather: Sunny • Temperature: 61 °F (16 °C) • Wind: 6 mph (9.7 km/h) southeast
- Game attendance: 43,375
- Referee: Mike Roche
- TV announcers (ESPN): Taylor Zarzour (play-by-play), Matt Stinchcomb (analyst), and Alyssa Lang (sideline)
- Box score
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Statistics
| Statistics | IOWA | MIZZ |
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| First downs | 17 | 23 |
| Total yards | 297 | 376 |
| Rushing yards | 166 | 89 |
| Passing yards | 131 | 287 |
| Passing: Comp–Att–Int | 14-18-1 | 18-33-0 |
| Time of possession | 28:30 | 31:30 |
| Team | Category | Player | Statistics |
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| Iowa | Passing | Brendan Sullivan | 14/18, 131 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT |
| Rushing | Kamari Moulton | 14 carries, 96 yards, 1 TD | |
| Receiving | Jarriett Buie | 3 receptions, 30 yards | |
| Missouri | Passing | Brady Cook | 18/32, 287 yards, 2 TD |
| Rushing | Brady Cook | 14 carries, 54 yards | |
| Receiving | Marquis Johnson | 7 receptions, 122 yards, 1 TD |