| 2025 TaxSlayer Gator Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 81st Gator Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 27, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | EverBank Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Jacksonville, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ABC | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Bob Wischusen (play-by-play), Louis Riddick (analyst), and Kris Budden (sideline) JP Shadrick (play-by-play), Gino Torretta (analyst) and KC Jones (sideline) (Touchdown Radio) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2025 Gator Bowl is a college football bowl game that is scheduled to be played on December 27, 2025, at EverBank Stadium located in Jacksonville, Florida. The 81st annual Gator Bowl game will feature the Virginia Cavaliers from the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Missouri Tigers from the Southeastern Conference. The game is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. EST and will air on ABC. [1] [2] The Gator Bowl will be one of the 2025–26 bowl games concluding the 2025 FBS football season. The game is sponsored by financial technology company TaxSlayer and is 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. Consistent with conference tie-ins, the game will feature Virginia from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and Missouri from the Southeastern Conference (SEC). This wil be the second meeting between the programs. [3]
The Cavaliers are in the midst of their most successful season to date under Elliot, having reached 10 wins in a season for only the second time in program history after 1989. Included in their 8–1 start to the season (their best since 1990) was a seven-game winning streak, their longest since 2007.
Virginia has their first appearances in an AP, Coaches, or College Football Playoff Top 25 poll since 2019, with their initial No. 14 ranking being their highest since the inception of the CFP in 2014.
Missouri finished the regular season at 8–4. After opening the season with a non-conference slate, including a game against Kansas, Missouri built momentum early. The season opener was part of a six-game home stretch to start 2025, the longest home stand in program history. 
Despite high hopes — buoyed by back-to-back 10+ win seasons prior — the Tigers hit turbulence in SEC play, finishing 4–4 in conference. On offense, Missouri averaged 32.2 points per game, while defensively they allowed just 19.4 points per game.
| Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| No. 19 Virginia | - | - | - | - | 0 |
| Missouri | - | - | - | - | 0 |
at TIAA Bank Field • Jacksonville, Florida
| Statistics | UVA | MIZ |
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| First downs | ||
| Plays–yards | – | – |
| Rushes–yards | – | – |
| Passing yards | ||
| Passing: comp–att–int | –– | –– |
| Time of possession |
| Team | Category | Player | Statistics |
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| Virginia | Passing | ||
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| Missouri | Passing | ||
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