Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl
| Gasparilla Bowl | |
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| Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl | |
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| Stadium | Tropicana Field |
| Location | St. Petersburg, Florida |
| Operated | 2008–present |
| Conference tie-ins |
American, ACC, C-USA Alternates: MAC, Sun Belt |
| Payout | US$500,000 |
| Sponsors | |
| Former names | |
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magicJack St. Petersburg Bowl (2008)
St. Petersburg Bowl Presented by Beef 'O' Brady's (2009) Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl (2010–2013) Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl (2014) St. Petersburg Bowl (2015–2016) |
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| 2016 matchup | |
| Mississippi State vs. Miami (OH) (Mississippi State 17–16) | |
| 2017 matchup | |
| Temple vs. FIU (Temple 28–3) | |
The Gasparilla Bowl, officially the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl for sponsorship purposes, is an NCAA-sanctioned post-season college football bowl game that has been played annually at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, since 2008. It was first known as the St. Petersburg Bowl, officially the magicJack St. Petersburg Bowl for sponsorship purposes, then the St. Petersburg Bowl Presented by Beef O'Brady's in 2009, with corporate sponsor Beef O'Brady's dropping the inclusion of "St. Petersburg" to rebrand it the Beef O'Brady's Bowl from 2010 until 2013, with the "St. Petersburg" returning in 2017 for the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl, then the sponsorless St. Petersburg Bowl in 2015 and 2016, and finally the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl beginning in 2017. The current name is a nod to the legend of José Gaspar, a mythical pirate who supposedly operated in the Tampa Bay area and who is the inspiration for Tampa's Gasparilla Pirate Festival.
The bowl game features teams from the American Athletic Conference against either the Atlantic Coast Conference or Conference USA, unless one of the conferences does not have enough bowl eligible teams, in which case the Mid-American or Sun Belt Conference are eligible to send a team. The 2016 edition of the game featured an SEC team, Mississippi State.
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