| 2025 Xbox Bowl | |||||||||
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| 1st Xbox Bowl | |||||||||
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| Date | December 18, 2025 | ||||||||
| Season | 2025 | ||||||||
| Stadium | Ford Center at The Star | ||||||||
| Location | Frisco, Texas | ||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||
| Network | ESPN2 | ||||||||
The 2025 Xbox Bowl is a college football bowl game that is scheduled to be played on December 18, 2025, at Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas. The first edition of the Xbox Bowl game will feature the Missouri State Bears from Conference USA against the Arkansas State Red Wolves from the Sun Belt Conference. The game is scheduled to begin at 8:00 p.m. CST and will air on ESPN2. [1] [2] The Xbox Bowl will be one of the 2025–26 bowl games concluding the 2025 FBS football season. The game's title sponsor is Microsoft Gaming via its Xbox brand.
In 2025 the Xbox Bowl was created as a new bowl game. It replaced the Bahamas Bowl. [3]
This matchup between Arkansas State and Missouri State will be the fifth all time meeting between the two programs. The Red Wolves lead the series 3–1. The last meeting between the two programs was back in 2015, with a Red Wolves victory, 70–7. [4]
Missouri State compiled a 7–5 record (5–3 in conference). Because this was the final year of a two-year transition from the Football Championship Subdivision, Missouri State was not originally bowl eligible. However, because of an insufficient number of bowl-eligible teams available to fill all bowl games, the Bears were ultimately granted a bowl game berth. This will be the first bowl game in Missouri State school history.
Arkansas State posted a 6–6 record (5–3) in conference, winning five of their final seven games after starting the season with a 1–4 record. This will be Arkansas State's third consecutive season with a bowl game appearance and their 13th overall bowl game.
| Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| Missouri State | - | - | - | - | 0 |
| Arkansas State | - | - | - | - | 0 |
| Statistics | MSU | ASU |
|---|---|---|
| First downs | ||
| Plays–yards | – | – |
| Rushes–yards | – | – |
| Passing yards | ||
| Passing: comp–att–int | –– | –– |
| Time of possession |
| Team | Category | Player | Statistics |
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| Missouri State | Passing | ||
| Rushing | |||
| Receiving | |||
| Arkansas State | Passing | ||
| Rushing | |||
| Receiving |