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Head Coach Jason Candle On the opportunity to play in the Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl… “How awesome. Our kids are fired up. Any time you can get a reward for a great season and get to a bowl game, that’s really cool. To be able to bring it to another country and certainly a place…

Head Coach Butch Davis On the preparations for playing in the Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl… “Obviously the weather aspect of it is pretty similar to us in Miami. We’ve had seven practices before we left Miami and we’ll get three more opportunities here. I think it was enough preparation for our players, I think they’re…

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….

Friday morning, in front of a group of media and officials from the Commonwealth of the Bahamas at the Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium, the Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl took an opportunity to introduce the 2018 participating institutions – FIU and Toledo – and preview the exciting bowl week events. Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl Executive…

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);…