Gasparilla Bowl
| Gasparilla Bowl | |
|---|---|
| Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl | |
| Stadium | Raymond James Stadium |
| Location | Tampa, Florida |
| Previous stadiums | Tropicana Field (2008–2017) |
| Previous locations | St. Petersburg, Florida (2008–2017) |
| Operated | 2008–present |
| Conference tie-ins | see tie-ins |
| Previous conference tie-ins | Big East/AAC, C-USA, ACC |
| Payout | US$1.125 million (2019) |
| Website | gasparillabowl.com |
| Sponsors | |
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| Former names | |
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| 2023 matchup | |
| Georgia Tech vs. UCF (Georgia Tech 30–17) | |
| 2024 matchup | |
| Tulane vs. Florida (Florida 33–8) | |
The Gasparilla Bowl is an annual NCAA-sanctioned post-season college football bowl game played in the Tampa Bay area. It was first played in 2008 as the St. Petersburg Bowl at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, one of several new bowl games played in Major League Baseball venues. The game was renamed the Gasparilla Bowl in 2017 as a nod to the legend of José Gaspar, a mythical pirate who supposedly operated in the Tampa Bay area and who is the inspiration for Tampa's Gasparilla Pirate Festival. The bowl relocated to Raymond James Stadium in Tampa in 2018.
Since 2020, the game has been sponsored by Union Home Mortgage and has been officially known as the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl. Previous sponsors include magicJack (2008), Beef O'Brady's (2009–2013), BitPay (2014), and Bad Boy Mowers (2017–2019).