2024 Music City Bowl


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. 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.

Teams

Consistent with conference tie-ins, the game featured teams from the Big Ten Conference and the Southeastern Conference.
This was the 14th meeting in the series between Iowa and Missouriwith 12 of the prior meetings held before 1911, and 5 before 1900and 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.

Iowa Hawkeyes

The Hawkeyes entered the game with an 8–4 record, 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.

Missouri Tigers

The Tigers entered the game with a 9–3 record, tied for fourth place in the conference standings, and landed at No. 19 in the final College Football Playoff ranking.
This was Missouri's first Music City Bowl.

Game summary

Statistics

StatisticsIOWAMIZZ
First downs1723
Total yards297376
Rushing yards16689
Passing yards131287
Passing: Comp–Att–Int14-18-118-33-0
Time of possession28:3031:30