2025 ReliaQuest Bowl
| 2025 ReliaQuest Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 40th ReliaQuest Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 31, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Raymond James Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Tampa, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Mark Gronowski (QB, Iowa) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Vanderbilt by 5.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Nate Black (ACC) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 35,382 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Roy Philpott (play-by-play), Sam Acho (analyst), and Taylor Davis (sideline) (ESPN) Sean Kelley (play-by-play), Rene Ingoglia (analyst), and Mike Peasley (sideline) (ESPN Radio) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2025 ReliaQuest Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 31, 2025, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. The 40th annual ReliaQuest Bowl (though only the fourth under that name) began at approximately 12:00 p.m. EST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2025–26 bowl games concluding the 2025 FBS football season. The game's title sponsor was the ReliaQuest cybersecurity company.
The Iowa Hawkeyes from the Big Ten Conference defeated the Vanderbilt Commodores from the Southeastern Conference (SEC), 34–27.