2025 TaxSlayer Gator Bowl | |||||||||||||||||
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80th Gator Bowl | |||||||||||||||||
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Date | January 2, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||
Season | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||
Stadium | EverBank Stadium | ||||||||||||||||
Location | Jacksonville, Florida | ||||||||||||||||
Referee | Jeffrey Servinski (Big Ten) [1] | ||||||||||||||||
United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||
Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||
Announcers | Dave Pasch (play-by-play), Dusty Dvoracek (analyst), and Taylor McGregor (sideline) | ||||||||||||||||
The 2025 Gator Bowl is a college football bowl game that is scheduled to be played on January 2, 2025, at EverBank Stadium located in Jacksonville, Florida. The 80th annual Gator Bowl game will feature teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Southeastern Conference. The game is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. EST and will air on ESPN. [2] [3] The Gator Bowl will be one of the 2024–25 bowl games concluding the 2024 FBS football season. The bowl game will be sponsored by financial technology company TaxSlayer, and the game will be officially known as the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl.
Based on conference tie-ins, the game will feature teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Southeastern Conference.
Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Duke | - | - | - | - | 0 |
Ole Miss | - | - | - | - | 0 |
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