2024 Liberty Bowl
| 2024 AutoZone Liberty Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 66th Liberty Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 27, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Memphis, Tennessee | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Taylen Green (QB, Arkansas)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Texas Tech by 3.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Chris Coyte (Big Ten)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 37,764 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Anish Shroff (play-by-play), Andre Ware (analyst), and Paul Carcaterra (sideline) (ESPN) Noah Reed (play-by-play) and Charles Arbuckle (analyst) (ESPN Radio) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2024 Liberty Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 27, 2024, at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium located in Memphis, Tennessee. The 66th annual Liberty Bowl game featured Texas Tech and Arkansas. The game began at approximately 6:05 p.m. CST and aired on ESPN.[3][4] The Liberty Bowl was one of the 2024–25 bowl games concluding the 2024 FBS football season. The game was sponsored by automotive retailer AutoZone and was officially known as the AutoZone Liberty Bowl.
Teams
[edit]Consistent with conference tie-ins, the game featured the Texas Tech Red Raiders from the Big 12 Conference and the Arkansas Razorbacks from the Southeastern Conference (SEC). This was the 38th meeting between the Red Raiders and Razorbacks; Arkansas led the series with a 29–8 record in their prior meetings.[5] It was the teams' first meeting since 2015.[5] The teams were once conference mates in the Southwest Conference (SWC), which Arkansas left after the 1991 season, then dissolved after the 1995 season.
Texas Tech Red Raiders
[edit]Texas Tech made their second appearance in the Liberty Bowl, having won their only previous appearance in the 2021 edition. The Red Raiders, led by third-year head coach Joey McGuire, finished the regular season with an overall record of 8–4 with a Big 12 record of 6–3. On December 14, Texas Tech announced that starting quarterback Behren Morton would miss the game due to shoulder surgery.[6] True freshman Will Hammond was named the Red Raiders' starter for the bowl game.[7]
Arkansas Razorbacks
[edit]Arkansas made their seventh appearance in the Liberty Bowl, the most by any team to this point in time, having compiled a 3–3 record in prior appearances. The Razorbacks, led by fifth-year head coach Sam Pittman, finished the regular season with an overall record of 6–6 with a SEC record of 3–5.
Game summary
[edit]| Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| Texas Tech | 3 | 16 | 0 | 7 | 26 |
| Arkansas | 21 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 39 |
at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium • Memphis, Tennessee
- Date: Friday, December 27, 2024
- Game time: 6:05 p.m. CST
- Game weather: Clear • Temperature: 57 °F (14 °C) • Wind: 6 mph (9.7 km/h) south
- Game attendance: 37,764
- Referee: Chris Coyte
- TV announcers (ESPN): Anish Shroff (play-by-play), Andre Ware (analyst), and Paul Carcaterra (sideline)
- Box score
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Statistics
[edit]| Statistics | TTU | ARK |
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| First downs | 23 | 20 |
| Plays–yards | 57–497 | 56–559 |
| Rushes–yards | 37–217 | 45–218 |
| Passing yards | 280 | 341 |
| Passing: comp–att–int | 20–34–2 | 11–21–0 |
| Time of possession | 30:22 | 29:38 |
| Team | Category | Player | Statistics |
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| Texas Tech | Passing | Will Hammond | 20/34, 280 yards, TD, 2 INT |
| Rushing | J'Koby Williams | 15 carries, 123 yards, TD | |
| Receiving | Caleb Douglas | 5 receptions, 115 yards | |
| Arkansas | Passing | Taylen Green | 11/21, 341 yards, 2 TD |
| Rushing | Taylen Green | 15 carries, 81 yards, TD | |
| Receiving | Dazmin James | 3 receptions, 137 yards, TD |
References
[edit]- ^ @RazorbackComms (December 27, 2024). "Your 2024 @AZOLibertyBowl MVP: Arkansas QB Taylen Green" (Tweet). Retrieved December 27, 2024 – via Twitter.
- ^ Austro, Ben (December 9, 2024). "2024-25 bowl officiating assignments". footballzebras.com. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
- ^ Cobb, David. "2024-25 college football bowl schedule, games, dates, locations, kickoff times, TV channels". CBS Sports. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
- ^ Kelley, Kevin. "College football bowl schedule for 2024-25 season released". FBSchedules.com. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
- ^ a b "Texas Tech Red Raiders vs. Arkansas Razorbacks football series history". winsipedia.com. Retrieved December 26, 2024.
- ^ Apodaca, Justin (December 14, 2024). "Texas Tech QB Behren Morton set to miss Liberty Bowl after undergoing shoulder surgery". Dallas Morning News. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
- ^ Williams, Don (December 14, 2024). "Texas Tech football's Behren Morton has surgery, to miss Liberty Bowl". Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
External links
[edit]- Game statistics at statbroadcast.com