2021 Music City Bowl
The 2021 Music City Bowl is a college football bowl game that will be played on December 30, 2021, with kickoff scheduled for 3:00 p.m. EST (2:00 p.m. local CST) on ESPN.[3] It will be the 23rd edition of the Music City Bowl (after the 2020 edition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic), and will be one of the 2021–22 bowl games concluding the 2021 FBS football season. Sponsored by translation and language services company TransPerfect, the game will be officially known as the TransPerfect Music City Bowl.
| 2021 TransPerfect Music City Bowl | |||||||||
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| 23rd Music City Bowl | |||||||||
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| Date | December 30, 2021 | ||||||||
| Season | 2021 | ||||||||
| Stadium | Nissan Stadium | ||||||||
| Location | Nashville, Tennessee | ||||||||
| Favorite | Tennessee by 3[1] | ||||||||
| Referee | Jerry Magallanes (ACC)[2] | ||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||
| Network | ESPN ESPN Radio | ||||||||
| Announcers | ESPN: Tom Hart (play-by-play), Jordan Rodgers (color), and Cole Cubelic (sidelines) ESPN Radio: Dave Neal (play-by-play), Deuce McAllister (analyst), and Andraya Carter (sideline) | ||||||||
Teams
The game will be played between Tennessee from the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and Purdue from the Big Ten Conference.[4][5] The game will be the second meeting between the schools; the first was the 1979 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, which Purdue won by a score of 27–22.[6]
Purdue Boilermakers
The Boilermakers enter the bowl with a 8–4 record (6–3 in conference), including an away upset win against No. 2 Iowa by seventeen points on October 16. The Boilermakers finished in a three-way tie for second place of the Big Ten's West Division. This is Purdue's second Music City Bowl; their 2018 team lost that season's Music City Bowl to Auburn, 63–14. The Boilermakers haven't made a bowl appearance since, but this was Purdue’s 20th overall bowl game in program history.
Tennessee Volunteers
Tennessee enters the bowl with a 7–5 record (4–4 in conference), including an away upset win against No. 18 Kentucky by three points on November 6. The Volunteers finished in third place in the SEC's East Division. This is Tennesse's third Music City Bowl; they lost in 2010 to North Carolina, 27–30, but won in 2016 over Nebraska, 38–24. This is the 54th overall bowl game for the Volunteers program.
Game summary
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
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| Purdue | - | - | - | - | 0 |
| Tennessee | - | - | - | - | 0 |
at Nissan Stadium • Nashville, Tennessee
- Date: Thursday, December 30, 2021
- Game time: 3:00 p.m. EST (2:00 p.m. local CST)
- TV announcers (ESPN): Tom Hart (play-by-play), Jordan Rodgers (color), and Cole Cubelic (sidelines)
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Statistics
| Statistics | PUR | TENN |
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| First downs | ||
| Plays–yards | – | – |
| Rushes–yards | – | – |
| Passing yards | ||
| Passing: Comp–Att–Int | –– | –– |
| Time of possession |
| Team | Category | Player | Statistics |
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| Purdue | Passing | ||
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| Tennessee | Passing | ||
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References
- Fawkes, Ben. "Odds for College Football Playoff, every bowl game". vsin.com. Retrieved December 8, 2021.
- "2021-22 bowl officiating assignments". footballzebras.com. December 6, 2021. Retrieved December 8, 2021.
- "2021 College Football Bowl Schedule". FBSchedules.com. Retrieved June 17, 2021.
- @MusicCityBowl (December 5, 2021). "@BoilerFootball will play @Vol_Football on Dec. 30 at @NissanStadium!" (Tweet). Retrieved December 5, 2021 – via Twitter.
- Organ, Mike (December 5, 2021). "Tennessee and Purdue to play in the Music City Bowl". The Tennessean. Nashville. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
- "Purdue to Pay Tennessee in the 2021 TransPerfect Music City Bowl". MusicCityBowl.com. Retrieved December 5, 2021.