The 2015 LSU Tigers football team finished the regular season with an 8-3 record and was set to take on the Texas Tech Red Raiders in the Texas Bowl.
Texas Tech entered the bowl match-up with a record of 7-5. LSU would go on to finish the season ranked No. 16 in the AP Poll and No. 17 in the Coaches Poll.
LSU quickly jumped out to a 14-6 lead after the first quarter.
With 11:47 to go in the first, Tigers running back Leonard Fournette ran into the end zone for a two-yard score to put the Tigers up 7-0.
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The Red Raiders scored with 53 seconds remaining in the quarter as wide receiver Jakeem Grant caught a 46-yard touchdown pass from Patrick Mahomes to trim the LSU lead to 7-6.
With 29 seconds left in the quarter, LSU receiver D.J. Chark took a wide receiver sweep 79 yards to put the Tigers up 14-6.
In the second quarter, Fournette hauled in a pass from quarterback Brandon Harris and went 44 yards to extend LSU’s lead to 21-6.
Then, Grant caught a three-yard pass from Mahomes with 3:38 left before halftime to put Texas Tech down 21-13. Texas Tech scored the first touchdown of the second half as Reginald Davis III caught a 31-yard touchdown pass from Mahomes to make it a 21-20 game.
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Then, with 8:17 left in the third, Fournette ran 43 yards for a Tigers touchdown and extended the lead to 28-20.
Just over four minutes later in the game, Fournette ran it in from four yards out to give the Tigers a 35-20 lead with 4:07 left in the third quarter.
Harris then took it himself for a 26-yard touchdown run to put the Tigers up 42-20 with nine seconds left in the third.
Nearly three minutes into the fourth, Grant caught a four-yard pass from Mahomes to make it a score of 42-27.
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LSU went 65 yards and capped off another scoring drive as Fournette took it in from two yards out to extend the lead to 49-27 for the Tigers.
The final score of the game came with 4:24 left as Darrel Williams had his own touchdown run of two yards to make it a 56-27 game.
The Tigers defeated the Red Raiders 56-27 and finished the 2015 season with a 9-3 record. Fournette was named MVP of the 2015 Texas Bowl after he rushed for 212 yards and scored five total touchdowns.
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