2025 Salute to Veterans Bowl
| 2025 IS4S Salute to Veterans Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 12th Salute to Veterans Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 16, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Cramton Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Montgomery, Alabama | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Caden Creel (QB, Jacksonville State) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Troy by 1.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Rich Edwards (MAC) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 15,721 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Matt Barrie (play-by-play), Tom Luginbill (analyst), and Harry Lyles Jr. (sideline) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2025 Salute to Veterans Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 16, 2025, at the Cramton Bowl in Montgomery, Alabama. The 12th Salute to Veterans Bowl, the game was played between Troy and Jacksonville State. The game began at approximately 8:00 p.m. CST and was aired on ESPN. The Salute to Veterans Bowl was one of the 2025–26 bowl games concluding the 2025 FBS football season. Sponsored by information technology company Integrated Solutions for Systems (IS4S), the game was officially known as the IS4S Salute to Veterans Bowl.
The 2025 Salute to Veterans Bowl featured the Jacksonville State Gamecocks (who had a regular season record of 8–5 and finished in a tie for first place in Conference USA) and the Troy Trojans (who also had a record of 8–5 and finished in first place in the Sun Belt Conference West Division). Jacksonville State defeated Troy by a score of 17–13.