Category: Press Releases

The Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl’s participating conferences – Conference USA and the Mid-American Conference – have each made donations of  $25,000 to Hurricane Dorian relief efforts, in addition to a  $25,000 donation from a neighboring bowl game in Miami – the Capital One Orange Bowl. The donations were announced at a press conference in downtown…

The bowl season will begin in the Bahamas this year as the 2019 Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl has been set for Friday, Dec. 20 at 2 p.m. ET. The longest-running international bowl game in college football history will play its sixth edition once again in Nassau’s 15,000-seat Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium, and the game…

Two student-athletes who participated in last year’s Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl joined three other alumni from previous years as they were selected during the 2019 NFL Draft, held April 25-27 in Nashville, Tennessee. The five selections in the 2019 NFL Draft were the third-most in the history of the bowl behind the record seven alums…

One of the highly anticipated events of Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl week is set for Wednesday, Dec. 19 as the fifth-annual Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl Youth Football Clinic, sponsored by KFC, will take place from 3:30-5:00 pm at the rugby fields next to old Thomas A. Robinson Stadium (adjacent to the National Stadium) in Nassau….

Veteran ESPN SportsCenter anchor and college football commentator Steve Levy, 1991 Heisman Trophy winner and Super Bowl XXXI MVP Desmond Howard and sideline reporter Laura Rutledge will call the 2018 Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl between FIU (8-4) and Toledo (7-5) for ESPN on Friday, Dec. 21 in Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium at 12:30 p.m….

FIU will represent Conference USA and Toledo will represent the Mid-American Conference as both institutions accepted bids to the 2018 Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl, set for Friday, Dec. 21 in Nassau’s Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium. The Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl will be played at 12:30 p.m. ET, and the contest will be televised on…

Click here to read the 2018 Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl Weekly Release – Week 13 – November 20-24 (PDF) PASSPORT STAMPED (BOWL-ELIGIBLE TEAMS): C-USA (6): FIU (8-3) Louisiana Tech (7-3), Marshall (7-3), Middle Tennessee (7-4), North Texas (8-3), UAB (9-2); MAC (7): Buffalo (9-2), Eastern Michigan (6-5), Miami (6-6), Northern Illinois (7-4), Ohio (7-4), Toledo…

Click here to read the 2018 Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl Weekly Release – Week 12 – November 13-17 (PDF) ASSPORT STAMPED (BOWL-ELIGIBLE TEAMS): C-USA (6): FIU (7-3) Louisiana Tech (7-3), Marshall (6-3), Middle Tennessee (7-3), North Texas (7-3), UAB (9-1); MAC (5): Buffalo (9-2), Eastern Michigan (6-5), Northern Illinois (7-4), Ohio (7-4), Western Michigan (6-5)….

Click here to read the 2018 Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl Weekly Release – Week 11 – November 6-10 (PDF) PASSPORT STAMPED (BOWL-ELIGIBLE TEAMS): C-USA (5): FIU (6-3) Louisiana Tech (6-3), Middle Tennessee (6-3), North Texas (7-2), UAB (8-1); MAC (4): Buffalo (9-1), Northern Illinois (7-3), Ohio (6-4), Western Michigan (6-4). AT CUSTOMS (ONE VICTORY SHY):…

Click here to read the 2018 Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl Weekly Release – Week 10 – October 30-November 3 (PDF) PASSPORT STAMPED (BOWL-ELIGIBLE TEAMS): C-USA (4): FIU (6-2) Louisiana Tech (6-2), North Texas (7-2), UAB (7-1); MAC (2): Buffalo (8-1), Western Michigan (6-2). AT CUSTOMS (ONE VICTORY SHY): C-USA (2): Marshall (5-2), Middle Tennessee (5-3);…