2025 First Responder Bowl (December)
| 2025 Servpro First Responder Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 16th First Responder Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 26, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Gerald J. Ford Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Dallas, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Owen McCown (QB, UTSA) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | UTSA by 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Steven Robinson (Sun Belt) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 8,671 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Anish Shroff (play-by-play), Andre Ware (analyst), and Paul Carcaterra (sideline) | ||||||||||||||||||
| International TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN Deportes | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2025 First Responder Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 26, 2025, at Gerald J. Ford Stadium in University Park, Texas. The 16th annual First Responder Bowl began at approximately 7:00 p.m. CST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2025–26 bowl games concluding the 2025 FBS football season. Sponsored by cleanup and restoration company Servpro, the game was officially known as the Servpro First Responder Bowl.
In the 2025 First Responder Bowl, the UTSA Roadrunners beat the FIU Panthers by a score of 57–20.