| Gasparilla Bowl | |
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| Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl | |
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| Stadium | Raymond James Stadium |
| Location | Tampa, Florida |
| Previous stadiums | Tropicana Field (2008–2017) |
| Previous locations | St. Petersburg, Florida (2008–2017) |
| Operated | 2008–present |
| Conference tie-ins | see tie-ins |
| Previous conference tie-ins | Big East/AAC, C-USA, ACC |
| Payout | US$1.125 million (2019)[1] |
| Sponsors | |
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| Former names | |
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| 2022 matchup | |
| Wake Forest vs. Missouri (Wake Forest 27–17) | |
| 2023 matchup | |
| UCF vs. Georgia Tech (Georgia Tech 30–17) | |
The Gasparilla Bowl is an annual NCAA-sanctioned post-season college football bowl game played in the Tampa Bay area. It was first played in 2008 as the St. Petersburg Bowl at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. The game was renamed the Gasparilla Bowl in 2017 as a nod to the legend of José Gaspar, a mythical pirate who supposedly operated in the Tampa Bay area and who is the inspiration for Tampa's Gasparilla Pirate Festival. In May 2018, the owners announced the bowl would be relocated to Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.[2]
Since 2020, it has been sponsored by Union Home Mortgage and officially known as the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl. From 2010 to 2013 when Beef O'Brady's was the title sponsor, the game was officially known as simply the Beef O'Brady's Bowl.[3] Previous sponsors include magicJack (2008), Beef O'Brady's (2009–2013), BitPay (2014), and Bad Boy Mowers (2017–2019).
- ^ "2019 Bowl Schedule". collegefootballpoll.com. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
- ^ "Gasparilla Bowl leaving St. Petersburg after 10 years". 10NEWS. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
- ^ "'O' No! Beef 'O' Brady's to drop sponsorship of local bowl game". Tampa Bay Business Journal.
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