| 2025 ReliaQuest Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 40th ReliaQuest Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 31, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Raymond James Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Tampa, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Nate Black (ACC) | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Roy Philpott (play-by-play), Sam Acho (analyst), and Taylor Davis (sideline) (ESPN) Sean Kelley (play-by-play), Rene Ingoglia (analyst), and Mike Peasley (sideline) (ESPN Radio) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2025 ReliaQuest Bowl is a college football bowl game that is scheduled to be played on December 31, 2025, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. The 40th annual ReliaQuest Bowl (though only the fourth under said name after being played as the Outback Bowl from 1996 to 2022), game will feature the Iowa Hawkeyes of the Big Ten Conference and the Vanderbilt Commodores of the Southeastern Conference. The game is scheduled to begin at 12:00 p.m. EST and will air on ESPN. [1] [2] It will be one of the 2025–26 bowl games concluding the 2025 FBS football season. The game's title sponsor is the ReliaQuest cybersecurity company.
Based on conference tie-ins, the game will feature Iowa (8–4, 6–3 Big Ten) of the Big Ten Conference and Vanderbilt (10–2, 6–2 SEC) of the Southeastern Conference. These two programs have never played each other. Iowa will make its seventh appearance in the ReliaQuest Bowl (previously played as the Outback Bowl and Hall of Fame Bowl), while Vanderbilt will be playing in this bowl game for the first time.
| Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| No. 23 Iowa | - | - | - | - | 0 |
| No. 14 Vanderbilt | - | - | - | - | 0 |
| Statistics | IOWA | VAN |
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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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| Iowa | Passing | ||
| Rushing | |||
| Receiving | |||
| Vanderbilt | Passing | ||
| Rushing | |||
| Receiving |