In 2004, the bowl bid to become the fifth BCS game, but was not chosen, primarily due to the stadium's aging condition. Starting with the January 2003 edition, the bowl was renamed as the Capital One Bowl, with title sponsorship by Capital One. The 1997 season game, which featured nearby Florida beating Penn State, holds the game's attendance record at 72,940. The 1990 season game had national championship implications Georgia Tech won the Florida Citrus Bowl, finished 11–0–1, and was voted the 1990 UPI national champion. In 1986, it was one of the bowl games considered for the site of the "winner take all" national championship game between Penn State and Miami, before the Fiesta Bowl was eventually chosen. A month earlier, organizers had rejected a proposal to rename the game to Grapefruit Bowl. In March 1983, the name of the game was changed from Tangerine Bowl to Florida Citrus Bowl, via a $1.25 million agreement with the Florida Citrus Commission the bowl's organizing committee also changed its name from Tangerine Sports Association to Florida Citrus Sports Association. While that naming was re-used nearly two decades later, that was for three editions of a bowl game with a different lineage.įurther information: Tangerine Bowl (2001–2003) Florida Citrus Bowl (1983–2002) Tangerine Bowl naming was used through the December 1982 playing.
In 1968, the Boardwalk Bowl in Atlantic City took over as a regional final, and the Tangerine Bowl became a major college bowl game, featuring teams from the University Division (which became Division I in 1973). īefore 1968, the game featured matchups between schools throughout the South, often featuring the Ohio Valley Conference champion or other small colleges, although a few major colleges did play in the bowl during this early era as well.įrom 1964 through 1967, it was one of the four regional finals in the College Division (which became Division II and Division III in 1973), along with the Pecan, Grantland Rice, and Camellia bowls. By 1952, the game was dubbed the "Little Bowl with the Big Heart", because all the proceeds from the game went to charity. The game, which began play in 1947, is one of the oldest of the non-CFP bowls, along with the Gator Bowl and Sun Bowl. In nearly every year since 1985, the game has featured two teams ranked in the Top 25. As of 2019, at $8.55 million per team, it has the largest payout of all bowls other than those that are part of the College Football Playoff (CFP). When January 1 is a Sunday, the game has been played on January 2 or December 31, to avoid conflicting with the National Football League (NFL) schedule. EST on New Year's Day and broadcast nationally on ABC. Since becoming one of the premier bowls, the Citrus Bowl is typically played at 1 p.m. Accordingly, the game is officially named the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl. On November 15, 2022, Kellogg's signed on as title sponsor of the game, placing its Cheez-It brand of snack crackers in the title position.
When Capital One was the game's title sponsor between 20, the game was referred to as the Capital One Bowl from 2003 to 2014. The game was first played as the Tangerine Bowl in 1947 before being renamed as the Florida Citrus Bowl in 1983.
The bowl is operated by Florida Citrus Sports, a non-profit group that also organizes the Pop-Tarts Bowl and Florida Classic. The Citrus Bowl is an annual college football bowl game played at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida.
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