2023 Citrus Bowl

2023 Cheez-It Citrus Bowl
77th Citrus Bowl
LSU Tigers Purdue Boilermakers
(9–4) (8–5)
SEC Big Ten
63 7
Head coach: 
Brian Kelly		 Head coach: 
Brian Brohm
(interim)
APCoachesCFP
161517
1234 Total
LSU 14211414 63
Purdue 0007 7
DateJanuary 2, 2023
Season2022
StadiumCamping World Stadium
LocationOrlando, Florida
MVPMalik Nabers (WR, LSU)[1]
FavoriteLSU by 14.5
RefereeKevin Mar (Big 12)[2]
Attendance42,791
PayoutUS$8,224,578[3]
United States TV coverage
NetworkABC
AnnouncersBob Wischusen (play-by-play), Dan Orlovsky (analyst), Kris Budden (sideline)
Citrus Bowl
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The 2023 Citrus Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 2, 2023, at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida. The 77th annual Citrus Bowl, the game featured the LSU Tigers of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and the Purdue Boilermakers of the Big Ten Conference.[4][5] The game began at 1:08 p.m. EST[6] and was aired on ABC.[7] It was one of the 2022–23 bowl games concluding the 2022 FBS football season. LSU won 63–7. The 56-point margin tied the 2008 GMAC Bowl and 2018 Armed Forces Bowl for the largest bowl game margin at the time; that record was surpassed seven days later when Georgia mauled TCU 65–7 in the CFP national championship game.

On November 15, 2022, Kellogg's, the parent company of the Cheez-It brand which already sponsored the Cheez-It Bowl at Camping World Stadium, announced it had also purchased sponsorship rights to the Citrus Bowl, making it officially the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl.[8]

  1. ^ "Football Dominates Purdue, 63–7, to Win Cheez-It Citrus Bowl". lsusports.net. January 2, 2023. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
  2. ^ Austro, Ben (December 4, 2022). "2022–23 bowl officiating assignments". footballzebras.com. Retrieved December 16, 2022.
  3. ^ "2022 Bowl Schedule". College Football Poll. Retrieved December 26, 2022.
  4. ^ Alexander, Wilson; Rabalais, Scott (December 4, 2022). "LSU bowl game: Tigers' destination to finish the 2022 season has been set". The Times-Picayune. Retrieved December 4, 2022.
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  7. ^ "2022 College Football Bowl Schedule". FBSchedules.com. Retrieved November 1, 2022.
  8. ^ "CHEEZ-IT® JOINS CITRUS BOWL AS TITLE PARTNER FOR THE NEWLY NAMED CHEEZ-IT® CITRUS BOWL". Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution. November 15, 2022. Archived from the original on December 8, 2022. Retrieved November 15, 2022.