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TaxSlayer Gator Bowl at Everbank Stadium
Jacksonville is the largest and most populous city in Florida, and is home to one of the oldest and most prestigious bowl games in college football. Each year, one of the best teams in the Southeastern Conference takes on a top team from the Big Ten Conference or the Atlantic Coast Conference in the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl. The Gator Bowl is held at Everbank Stadium, which opened as Jacksonville Municipal Stadium in 1995 and currently holds 67,184 for Jacksonville Jaguars games and up to 82,000 for bowl games and the annual Georgia-Florida game.
TaxSlayer Gator Bowl History
The inaugural Gator Bowl took place on January 1, 1946, as a near-capacity crowd of 7,362 saw Wake Forest defeat South Carolina 26-14. Due to popular demand, Fairfield Stadium was soon expanded and renamed Gator Bowl Stadium, after the venue's marquee event. The Gator Bowl has been played on the same site since its inception, with the exception of the December 1994 game held at Gainesville while the original Gator Bowl Stadium was being demolished and rebuilt. From 2015 to 2017, the game was known simply as the TaxSlayer Bowl, but its original name was reintroduced for the 2018 edition.
The most infamous moment by far in Gator Bowl history took place in 1978, when Ohio State head coach Woody Hayes punched Clemson nose guard Charlie Bauman after the latter made a game-clinching interception. The punch, and the subsequent firing of Hayes, overshadowed the Tigers' 17-15 upset of a Top 10 Buckeye team. The 1980 matchup is notable for having Hugh Green and the No. 3 ranked Pitt Panthers obliterate Heisman winner George Rogers and the South Carolina Gamecocks, 37-9. The December 31, 2018, Gator Bowl featured the Texas A&M Aggies scoring 45 unanswered points against North Carolina State in a 52-13 victory over the Wolfpack.
Pep rally was great at the beach. Great college football spirit and fun. Well organized with police, traffic, beach venue. Game was super atmosphere, well played by Clemson & Kentucky. Stadium was great and fans showed great sportsmanship.
The game was great and Ticketmaster made it easy. From Parking to the game everything was a breeze. The technology worked and everything was as advertised. Highly recommend Ticketmaster!
Awesome seats with an amazing price !! We had the best time watching our Clemson Cheerleader ❤️🏈🏈🏈
Great venue, stadium surrounded by water. Great weather and Clemson pulled out a win in 4th quarter.
Smooth process to parking, great seats and very exciting game!
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River taxis, club level, great seats, weather and game.
They need large kiosk at every gate showing were you are and where the stadium seating sections are! We enter at gate 1 and had to walk all the way around the stadium to get to section #137!
Love going to this bowl game! We choose a team to cheer for and go from there. Favorite place to be is in the end zone. Love college football and seeing teams that I normally wouldn’t see play.
Overall great experience. Felt rushed to leave stadium. Did not love that young children were given tickets to sit behind us and scream for the other team. Fine to give away tickets — maybe have a separate section though.
It's a unique experience I was so excited to see Kentucky win but was not to be even though it was a great game
Jacksonville was a great setting for an exciting Gator bowl between Clemson and Kentucky. A back and forth nail biter which went down to the last minute. We purchased great seats in the fourth row so that we would have a perfect view of the field, regrettably a bunch of former Kentucky students who had tickets in the second row decided to stand up for 100% of the game blocking our view. We tried to shift into other seats as best we could, but watched most of the game on the big screen instead. It did somewhat ruin the experience, but will hope for classier fans next season.
Amazing experience! Easy to access tickets for entry. Great communication from Ticketmaster.
Great game and great experience! Super easy to get in , would have been nice if parking pass purchased has the address to the parking lot. Little hard to find but overall great time.
Really great time In Jacksonville Florida for the gator bowl the Kentucky fans were really nice.
Everyone was super friendly, easy to navigate stadium and overall great time!
A great venue and a great game. Food and drinks were a bit pricey for what we received but employees were very nice.
It was an excellent trip to the Gator Bowl. Our seats were awesome. All of the workers were very nice. The reason for 4 stars and not 5 is that FanFest was pretty much nonexistent. Hopefully something will be done to improve this aspect so fans can enjoy some pregame activities presented by the sponsors..
Seating was also great and getting into and out of stadium was easy
Great game. Good seats. Nice stadium. Traffic was well directed around stadium
