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May 26, 2022 Bowl Season will begin in the Bahamas this year as the longest-running international bowl game in college football history, the HomeTown Lenders Bahamas Bowl, will be played Friday, Dec. 16 at 11:30 a.m. ET. Nassau’s 15,000-seat Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium will host the eighth edition of the HomeTown Lenders Bahamas Bowl,…

May 25, 2022 HomeTown Lenders (HTL), a rapidly emerging leader in the national mortgage lending industry, is the new title sponsor of the Bahamas Bowl college football game. ESPN Events, which has owned and operated the game since 2015, announced the new multi-year sponsorship today. “We are looking forward to a long relationship with HomeTown…

Two student-athletes from Toledo who participated in last year’s Bahamas Bowl were selected during the 2022 NFL Draft, held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Toledo Safety Tycen Anderson was selected in the Fifth round (No. 166 overall) by the Cincinnati Bengals, followed by fellow teammate Samuel Womack 6 picks later (No. 172 overall) to the San…

April 28, 2022 A recognized leader in the sports industry, Lea Miller-Tooley has been named the Executive Director of ESPN Events’ Bahamas Bowl. The Bahamas Bowl, which has featured seven editions and is the longest-running international bowl game in college football history, is played annually in Nassau’s Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium. ESPN Events began…

Click here to read the 2017 Bahamas Bowl Weekly Release – Week 11 – November 9-15 (PDF) PASSPORT STAMPED (BOWL-ELIGIBLE TEAMS): C-USA (5): FIU (6-2), Florida Atlantic (6-3), Marshall (6-3), North Texas (6-3), UAB (6-3); MAC (5): Central Michigan (6-4), Northern Illinois (6-3), Ohio (8-2), Toledo (8-2), Western Michigan (6-4). AT CUSTOMS (ONE VICTORY SHY):…

Click here to read the 2017 Bahamas Bowl Weekly Release – Week 10 – November 2-8 (PDF) PASSPORT STAMPED (BOWL-ELIGIBLE TEAMS): C-USA (1): Marshall (6-2); MAC (3): Northern Illinois (6-2), Ohio (7-2), Toledo (7-1). AT CUSTOMS (ONE VICTORY SHY): C-USA (7): FIU (5-2), Florida Atlantic (5-3), North Texas (5-3), Southern Miss (5-3), UAB (5-3), UTSA…

Click here to read the 2017 Bahamas Bowl Weekly Release – Week 9 – October 26-November 1 (PDF) PASSPORT STAMPED (BOWL ELIGIBLE TEAMS): C-USA (1): Marshall (6-1); MAC (2): Ohio (6-2), Toledo (6-1). AT CUSTOMS (ONE VICTORY SHY): C-USA (2): Southern Miss (5-2), WKU (5-2); MAC (2): Northern Illinois (5-2), Western Michigan (5-3). THIS WEEKEND:…

FINAL SCORE: Old Dominion 24, Eastern Michigan 20 Superlatives Prior to today, the fewest points scored by any Popeyes Bowl participant was 31 points (by Middle Tennessee State in 2015). Prior to today, only one Popeyes Bowl participant had scored less than 45 points (31 points by MTSU in 2015). Eastern Michigan broke a Popeyes…

Eastern Michigan Head Coach Chris Creigthon Opening Remarks “I want to congratulate Old Dominion, Coach Wilder, and his staff, and their team on a great victory. Obviously, they’re a good football team with 10 wins on the season.  We played a really good team today. I’m proud of our football team. Obviously, we came up…

BOBBY WILDER, Head Coach Opening remarks “I just want to say how excited we are to win the game, but number two how grateful we are for how we were treated this week by everybody associated with the Popeyes Bahamas Bowl – all the wonderful people we met. This was a life-changing experience. We talked…