![]() Petersburg Bowl was played on December 20, 2008, between South Florida and Memphis. On November 25, 2008, ESPN Regional Television, the game's owner, announced a one-year title sponsorship agreement with magicJack. On April 30, 2008, the NCAA's Postseason Football Licensing Subcommittee approved a yet-to-be-named bowl game for Tropicana Field to be played as part of the 2008 college football season. The Gasparilla Bowl is the third college bowl game to be played in the Tampa Bay area the Outback Bowl has been held in Tampa since 1986 and the Cigar Bowl was played from 1947 to 1954. From 2010 to 2013 when Beef O'Brady's was the title sponsor, the game was officially known as simply the Beef O'Brady's Bowl. Since 2020, it has been sponsored by Union Home Mortgage and officially known as the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl. In May 2018, the owners announced the bowl would be relocated to Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. The game was renamed the Gasparilla Bowl in 2017 as 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. Petersburg Bowl at Tropicana Field in St. The Gasparilla Bowl is an annual NCAA-sanctioned post-season college football bowl game played in the Tampa Bay area. ![]() Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl (2020–present).Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl (2017–2019). ![]() Petersburg Bowl presented by Beef O'Brady's (2009)
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