2025 Gasparilla Bowl
| 2025 Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 17th Gasparilla Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
Postgame award ceremony | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 19, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Raymond James Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Tampa, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Caden Fordham, LB, NC State | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | NC State by 3.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Nolan Dumas (Mountain West) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 13,336 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Anish Shroff (play-by-play), Andre Ware (analyst), and Paul Carcaterra (sideline) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2025 Gasparilla Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 19, 2025, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. The 17th annual Gasparilla Bowl game began at 2:32 p.m. EST and aired on ESPN. The Gasparilla Bowl was one of the 2025–26 bowl games concluding the 2025 FBS football season. The game was sponsored by mortgage loan company Union Home Mortgage, and was officially known as the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl.
The 2025 Gasparilla Bowl featured the Memphis Tigers (8–4) from the American Conference and the NC State Wolfpack (7–5) from the Atlantic Coast Conference. NC State beat Memphis by a score of 31–7.