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Gasparilla Bowl

Gasparilla Bowl

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  • Premiered: 
    December 20, 2008
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  • Network: ESPN2
  • Category: Series
  • Genre: Sports
  • Type: Live Action
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  • Tags: football (college)

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Plot Synopsis

Each year since 2008, St. Petersburg has hosted an annual college bowl game. When the game was approved, it became the third collegiate bowl game in the Tampa Bay area, following the Outback Bowl and the defunct Cigar Bowl. Originally proposed as a game involving teams from the Big East (#6 seed) and Conference USA (#7 seed) on Sunday, December 21, 2008, the game was soon rescheduled after the National Football League scheduled a Sunday night game between the San Diego Chargers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the same night. Kicking off on Saturday, December 20, 2008 indoors at Tropicana Field, the inaugural game featured South Florida (Big East) taking on Memphis (C-USA). BitPay became the title sponsor for the 2014 event, and the game was re-branded as the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl, where fans could purchase all game-related items using bitcoin -- the first for a college football game. Originally intended to be a three-year relationship, BitPay and ESPN mutually agreed to part ways after a single game, with the event reverting back to the St. Petersburg Bowl. In 2017, the game moved from Tropicana Field (St. Petersburg) to Raymond James Stadium (Tampa) and was renamed as the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl, later becoming the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl in 2021.

Other Titles

  • In 2008, known as: magicJack St. Petersburg Bowl
  • In 2009, 2015 & 2016, known as: St. Petersburg Bowl
  • From 2010-2013, known as: Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl
  • In 2014, known as: Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl
  • From 2017-2019, known as: Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl
  • Since 2021, known as: Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl

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  • Tropicana Field (2008-2017) - Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida USA - Map It!
  • Raymond James Stadium (2018-Present) - Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida USA