2025 New Orleans Bowl
| 2025 New Orleans Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 25th New Orleans Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 23, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Caesars Superdome | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | New Orleans, Louisiana | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Maverick McIvor (QB, Western Kentucky) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Western Kentucky by 2.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Christian Watson (Mountain West) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 16,693 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Courtney Lyle (play-by-play), Rene Ingoglia (analyst), and Ian Fitzsimmons (sideline) (ESPN) Matt Jones (play-by-play) and Myron Medcalf (analyst) (ESPN Radio) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2025 New Orleans Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 23, 2025, at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The 25th annual New Orleans Bowl game, it began at approximately 4:30 p.m. CST and aired on ESPN. The New Orleans Bowl was one of the 2025–26 bowl games concluding the 2025 FBS football season.
The 2025 New Orleans Bowl featured the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers from Conference USA and the Southern Miss Golden Eagles from the Sun Belt Conference. Western Kentucky beat Southern Miss, 27–16.