2016 TaxSlayer Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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71st Gator Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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Date | January 2, 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
Season | 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stadium | EverBank Field | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | Jacksonville, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
MVP | Terry Godwin (WR, Georgia) & Trace McSorley (QB, Penn State)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
Favorite | Georgia by 6½[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
Referee | Mike Mothershed (Pac-12) | ||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 58,212[3] | ||||||||||||||||||
Payout | US$2,750,000 | ||||||||||||||||||
United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
Network | ESPN/ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||||
Announcers | Allen Bestwick, Dan Hawkins, & Tiffany Greene (ESPN) Eamon McAnaney, John Congemi, & Ian Fitzsimmons (ESPN Radio) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2016 TaxSlayer Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on January 2, 2016, at EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Florida. The 71st edition of the Gator Bowl featured the Penn State Nittany Lions of the Big Ten Conference against the Georgia Bulldogs of the Southeastern Conference. It began at noon EST and aired on ESPN. It was one of the 2015–16 bowl games that concluded the 2015 FBS football season. The game's naming rights sponsor was tax preparation software company TaxSlayer.com,[4] and for sponsorship reasons was officially known as the TaxSlayer Bowl.
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