The Miami Beach Bowl is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sanctioned Division I college football bowl game played on December 22, 2014 in Miami, Florida at Marlins Park. The Brigham Young Cougars played in the inaugural Miami Beach Bowl against the American Athletic Conference co-champion Memphis Tigers. The Miami Beach Bowl marked the Cougars first appearance in a Florida bowl in nearly 30 years, since the 1985 Citrus Bowl in Orlando, while the Tigers returned to Florida for its first bowl game since the 2008 St. Petersburg Bowl.