2025 Birmingham Bowl
| 2025 JLab Birmingham Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 19th Birmingham Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 29, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Protective Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Birmingham, Alabama | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | OJ Arnold (RB, Georgia Southern) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Georgia Southern by 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Rory Bernard (CUSA) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 12,092 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Taylor Zarzour (play-by-play), Matt Stinchcomb (analyst), and Alyssa Lang (sideline) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2025 Birmingham Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 29, 2025, at Protective Stadium in Birmingham, Alabama. The nineteenth annual Birmingham Bowl game, began at approximately 1:00 p.m. CST and aired on ESPN. The Birmingham Bowl was one of the 2025–26 bowl games concluding the 2025 FBS football season. The game was sponsored by consumer audio company JLab Audio and officially known as the JLab Birmingham Bowl.
The Georgia Southern Eagles defeated the Appalachian State Mountaineers, 29–10.
Because none of the conferences the bowls had ties with had enough eligible teams to qualify, the bids to the bowl were offered as at-large selections; in addition to this, due to the bowl games not having enough teams with the necessary 6 wins to qualify for a bid, a team with a losing record was selected. The Sun Belt Conference received one of the bids for Georgia Southern, and once Appalachian State accepted the other, this left the Birmingham Bowl with a matchup of teams from the same conference.