| 2021 Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 13th Gasparilla Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 23, 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Raymond James Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Tampa, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Ryan O'Keefe (WR, UCF)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Florida by 7.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Mark Duddy (Pac-12)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 63,669 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Wes Durham (play-by-play), Roddy Jones (analyst), and Taylor Davis (sideline) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nielsen ratings | 1.8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| International TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Matheus Pinheiro (play-by-play) and Weinny Eirado (analyst) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2021 Gasparilla Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 23, 2021, with kickoff at 7:00 p.m. EST, televised on ESPN.[3] It was the 13th edition of the Gasparilla Bowl (after the 2020 edition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic), and was one of the 2021–22 bowl games concluding the 2021 FBS football season. Sponsored by mortgage loan company Union Home Mortgage, the game was officially known as the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl.
On December 10, 2021, the game was officially announced as a sellout, the first time the Gasparilla Bowl sold out in its history.[4]