2025 Gator Bowl
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Jaxson Dart (QB, Ole Miss) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Ole Miss by 14.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Marvin Zapf | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Jeffrey Servinski (Big Ten) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 31,290 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Dave Pasch (play-by-play), Dusty Dvoracek (analyst), and Taylor McGregor (sideline) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2025 Gator Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 2, 2025, at EverBank Stadium located in Jacksonville, Florida. The 80th annual Gator Bowl featured Duke from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and Ole Miss from the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The game began at approximately 8:00 p.m. EST and aired on ESPN. The Gator Bowl was one of the 2024–25 bowl games concluding the 2024 FBS football season. The game was sponsored by financial technology company TaxSlayer and was officially known as the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl.