| 2023 Tunnel to Towers Foundation Hula Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 77th Hula Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | January 14, 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | FBC Mortgage Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Orlando, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Offense: Holton Ahlers (QB, East Carolina)[1] Defense: Jordan Ferguson (DE, Middle Tennessee)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Amanda Sauer | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 8,314 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | CBS Sports Network | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Jamie Seh (play-by-play), Brian Baldinger (color), Nick Lowery (sideline), Smacker Miles (sideline)[3] | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2023 Hula Bowl was a postseason college football all-star game played on January 14, 2023, with kickoff at 12:00 noon EST, at FBC Mortgage Stadium in Orlando, Florida.[4] It was the first all-star contest of the 2022–23 bowl games and, while not restricted to FBS players, one of the final games of the 2022 FBS football season. Television coverage was provided by CBS Sports Network.[4] This was the second playing of the Hula Bowl outside of Hawaii, due to Aloha Stadium near Honolulu being closed for renovations.[5] The game rostered players into Aina and Kai teams, the words for land and sea in the Hawaiian language. Through sponsorship from the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, the game was officially named the 2023 Tunnel to Towers Foundation Hula Bowl.[6]
- ^ @ToledoFB (January 14, 2023). "@CoachScott_UT helped coach offensive MVP Holton Ahlers" (Tweet). Retrieved January 23, 2023 – via Twitter.
- ^ @PeterAriz (January 15, 2023). "Congrats @JoFerg__ on a great week of practice and heck of a Defensive MVP performance in yesterday's @Hula_Bowl!" (Tweet). Retrieved January 23, 2023 – via Twitter.
- ^ CBS Sports broadcast of the game
- ^ a b "Game Day 2022". hulabowl.com. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
- ^ Jankowski, Jon (August 9, 2021). "Hula Bowl to be played at UCF for one year". clickorlando.com. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
- ^ "Tunnel to Towers Foundation to Serve as Title Sponsor of Hula Bowl 2023". globenewswire.com (Press release). November 16, 2022. Retrieved January 23, 2023.