Jun 06, 2024
Game to Feature SEC vs. Big Ten Matchup at Camping World Stadium in Orlando ORLANDO, Fla. — The Cheez-It Citrus Bowl, Orlando’s New Year’s tradition, returns to December 31 this season. The 79th edition of the game, featuring top teams from the Southeastern and Big Ten conferences, will kick off at 3 p.m. ET on ABC, serving as a lead-in to that evening’s College Football Playoff quarterfinals. This postseason will mark the 29th time that the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl will take […]
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Aug 31, 2023
DALLAS (FWAA) – The Cheez-It National Team of the Week will be presented each Monday during the college football regular season. Each week, the All-America Committee of the Football Writers Association will honor one outstanding team performance. The 2023 season is the 22nd for the program, which features new branding in partnership with Cheez-It, the cheeziest sponsor of college football, and Florida Citrus Sports, the Orlando-based non-profit that organizes the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl. Once again, the honored team will be presented with a […]
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May 31, 2023
The Cheez-It Citrus Bowl will return to its traditional New Year’s Day window in 2024. Florida Citrus Sports officials confirmed the news Wednesday as part of ESPN’s 2023-24 football bowl schedule release. The 78th edition of the matchup, featuring top teams from the Southeastern and Big Ten Conferences, will be held at Camping World Stadium on Monday, Jan. 1, with a national broadcast scheduled for 1 p.m. ET on ABC. Forty-four of the previous 77 Citrus Bowl matchups have been […]
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Dec 04, 2022
ORLANDO — The LSU Tigers and the Purdue Boilermakers will play in the 2023 Cheez-It Citrus Bowl, Florida Citrus Sports chairman Paul Mears III and CEO Steve Hogan announced Sunday. The game will kick off at 1 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 2, at Camping World Stadium and will be televised nationally by ABC. The meeting will be the first between the Tigers and Boilermakers, champions of the SEC West and Big Ten West, respectively, in 2022. LSU will be making its sixth […]
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Nov 14, 2022
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Cheez-It® is doubling up on the absurdly cheezy college football action this season as it becomes the title sponsor of the new Cheez-It® Citrus Bowl. The Orlando-based postseason game features a matchup between teams from the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and Big Ten Conference at Camping World Stadium. The agreement between Florida Citrus Sports and Cheez-It came together in collaboration with Disney Advertising. In its fifth season as an NCAA football bowl game sponsor and official sponsor of […]
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May 26, 2022
Tickets to the Citrus Bowl will go on public sale Sunday, December 4 at 11 a.m. ET. Tickets can be purchased through Florida Citrus Sports membership until then. The game date and kickoff time for Orlando’s Citrus Bowl were announced on Thursday as part of ESPN’s 2022-23 college football schedule release. The 2023 Citrus Bowl will kick off at 1 p.m. ET on Monday, Jan. 2 at Camping World Stadium. The matchup will pit the Big Ten Conference against the […]
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May 27, 2021
The game date and kickoff time for Orlando’s Vrbo Citrus Bowl were announced on Thursday as part of ESPN’s 2021-22 college football schedule release. The 2022 Vrbo Citrus Bowl will kick off at 1 p.m. ET on Saturday, Jan. 1 at Camping World Stadium and will mark the 75th anniversary of the inaugural Tangerine Bowl game on Jan. 1, 1947 at the same site. The matchup will pit the Southeastern Conference against the Big Ten Conference and will be televised […]
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Dec 20, 2020
The No. 14 Northwestern Wildcats (6-1, 6-1 Big Ten) and the Auburn Tigers (6-4, 6-4 SEC) will meet in the 2021 Vrbo Citrus Bowl. Florida Citrus Sports chairman Ken Robinson and CEO Steve Hogan announced the matchup today on behalf of the organization. The 75th edition of the game will take place at 1 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 1 at Camping World Stadium and will be televised nationally by ABC. The game will mark the second ever meeting between the […]
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Oct 29, 2020
The game dates and kickoff times for this season’s Vrbo Citrus Bowl was announced this morning as part of ESPN’s 2020-21 college football bowl schedule release. The 75th Vrbo Citrus Bowl, pitting the SEC against the Big Ten, will be played in its traditional New Year’s Day timeslot, kicking off at 1 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 1 on ABC. In last year’s game, Alabama defeated Michigan 35-16, with Crimson Tide wide receiver Jerry Jeudy, a first-round pick of the Denver Broncos, taking home game MVP honors. Information regarding […]
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