2025 First Responder Bowl - Misplaced Pages

The 2025 First Responder Bowl is a college football bowl game scheduled to be played on January 3, 2025, at Gerald J. Ford Stadium in University Park, Texas. The 15th annual First Responder Bowl is scheduled to begin at 3:00 p.m. CST and will be aired on ESPN. It is one of the 2024–25 bowl games concluding the 2024 FBS football season. Sponsored by cleanup and restoration company Servpro, the game is officially known as the Servpro First Responder Bowl.

Teams

Consistent with conference tie-ins, the game feature teams from the Group of Five conferences.

2025 Servpro First Responder Bowl

Quarter	1	2	3	4	Total
North Texas	-	-	-	-	0
Texas State	-	-	-	-	0

Date: Friday, January 3, 2025
Game time: 3:00 p.m. CST
TV announcers (ESPN): Tom Hart (play-by-play), Jordan Rodgers (analyst), and Cole Cubelic (sideline)

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v t e First Responder Bowl
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Cotton Bowl (2011–2018) Gerald J. Ford Stadium (2019–present)

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