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How a New Year’s Eve bowl game became a $1.2B economic engine for Tampa Bay.

Baker Mayfield’s latest scholarship honors a Florida Gator whose grit mirrors his own rise from walk-on to Heisman winner.

The ReliaQuest Bowl Game has been scheduled for New Year’s Eve, at Raymond James Stadium, with a noon kick-off, ESPN and the Tampa Bay Bowl Association announced Thursday. The game will be telecast internationally, on ESPN. It’s the first bowl of the day’s lineup, leading into the quarterfinal round of the College Football Playoff. The

The ReliaQuest Bowl has announced that the University of Illinois and Mississippi State University will go head-to-head at the annual college game, scheduled for January 2 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. It will be only the second meeting in history for the two teams that last played in 1980 and the first time since

In June, the Tampa Bay Bowl Association scheduled a news conference but many people already knew what was coming. The guessing game had started: Who would nab that coveted title sponsorship at college the football bowl game that happens every New Year’s Day? We now know that answer.  The Tampa Bay Bowl announced ReliaQuest, a

The Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl will be played at Raymond James Stadium on Friday, December 23, with a kickoff time to be announced at a later date. The game, owned and operated by ESPN Events, will air on ESPN. “We’re still feeling the excitement from this past season’s sold-out crowd at Raymond James Stadium

The Outback Bowl is a Tampa tradition and college football fans have the opportunity to ring in 2022 by enjoying, what should be, an outstanding game between Penn State and Arkansas.The New Year’s Day matchup (12 p.m./ESPN) will feature the, first-ever, meeting between the Nittany Lions and Razorbacks.“These are two quality teams that should produce

Much like everything else during the pandemic, college football has not been spared. The South Florida Bulls were scheduled to kick off the season this Saturday at Texas. The trip to the Lone Star State was to be followed by visits to Raymond James Stadium from Bethune-Cookman next Saturday and Nevada on September 19. However,

Every New Year’s Day, near the end of the college football season, fans pile into Raymond James Stadium to watch one last game. It’s significant for the Southeastern Conference and Big Ten Conference teams and their fans, to be sure, but something often missed is the economic impact the event has for the Tampa Bay

Interview transcribed by Melissa Razdrih Dewey Mitchell and Allen Crumbley have been in business together for more than 30 years. Both are brokers, and co-owners, of Capstone Tropical Holdings in Trinity. Meeting at the University of Alabama in 1974 as freshman with football scholarships, the two maintained a longstanding friendship that led to an amazingly