The Bahamas Bowl is back; set for December 17

The 2021 bowl season will begin in The Bahamas this year as the longest-running international bowl game in college football history, the Bahamas Bowl, will be played Friday, December 17 at noon.

After a year away due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bahamas Bowl will stage its seventh edition in the 15,000-seat Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium in New Providence, and the game will air in the United States on ESPN.

“We are thrilled to return to the bowl lineup and to be the opening game of Bowl Season this year,” said Bahamas Bowl Executive Director Richard Giannini. “The bowl has been a fixture on The Bahamas’ sporting calendar since 2014, and the game has provided tremendous competition for our partner conferences at Conference USA and the Mid-American Conference. We have a fun gameday atmosphere for our fans who attend the bowl, and it is a yearly showcase of the beauty of The Bahamas on ESPN. We know that the 2021 bowl will remind everyone why ‘Bowl Games are Better in The Bahamas’.”

Each year, American football fans travel to Nassau, The Bahamas, to see their universities play in the only bowl game currently played outside the United States. In the inaugural bowl game in 2014, Western Kentucky University (WKU) beat Central Michigan 49-48 in a memorable offensive shootout that featured the number one play of the year as recognized at the ESPYs – an award winning show recognizing individual and team athletic achievement and other sports-related performances during a calendar year.

In 2015, Western Michigan beat Middle Tennessee 45-31, Old Dominion held off Eastern Michigan 24-20 in the 2016 game, Ohio beat the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) 41-6 in 2017, Florida International University (FIU) rallied to beat Toledo 35-32 in 2018 and Buffalo defeated Charlotte 31-9 in 2019.

As with the first six editions, the 2021 Bahamas Bowl will feature teams from Conference USA and the Mid-American Conference (MAC).

For more information on the 2021 Bahamas Bowl, interested persons are asked to visit the website BahamasBowl.com. The game is one of 17 college bowl games owned and operated by ESPN Events, a division of ESPN.

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