DALLAS (FWAA) — Missouri State’s Connor Lair is this week’s nominee for the 2025 Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award. Lair, a redshirt junior fullback, beat stage four Hodgkin’s lymphoma to return to the field for the Bears. Lair was diagnosed in September of 2023 and missed all but the first two games of...
College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl is Key Driver of Local Impact Miami Lakes, Fla. (www.orangebowl.org) – The 2024-25 Orange Bowl Festival, including the 2025 College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Capital Orange Bowl, generated a total of $286.3 million in new economic impact and media exposure...
DALLAS (FWAA) — North Carolina’s Max Johnson is this week’s nominee for the 2025 Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award. Johnson, a sixth-year senior quarterback, overcame a potentially debilitating knee injury to return to the field for the Tar Heels this season. "I want to play football," Johnson told ESPN.com of why he put...
DALLAS (FWAA) — Michigan’s Ernest Hausmann is this week’s nominee for the 2025 Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award. Hausmann, a senior linebacker, has overcome numerous childhood hardships to develop into a captain for the Wolverines who has started his own charity and poured his heart into numerous causes for...
DALLAS (FWAA) — Army’s Larry Pickett Jr. is the first weekly nomination for the 2025 Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award. Pickett, a sophomore safety, rescued a man from a burning car earlier this season. “I’m just taking this for what it is,” Pickett told The Athletic. “People around me are...
MIAMI LAKES, Florida (orangebowl.org) – 16 September 2025 – The Orange Bowl Committee commemorated the College Football Playoff (CFP) Foundation’s “Extra Yard for Teachers Week” by surprising Coach Todd Fitz-Gerald, head baseball coach and teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, with a $1,000 DonorsChoose gift card, which can be...
Backpacks, haircuts, food, and more await at the August 2nd event MIAMI LAKES, Fla., (July 30, 2025) – The 13th annual Sunshine Health Orange Bowl Family Fun & Fit Day presented by PNC Bank at David Deal Playday will be held Saturday, Aug. 2 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at...
Defending National Champion Florida Gators and Florida State Seminoles Headline Exciting Doubleheader at Amerant Bank Arena MIAMI LAKES, Fla., [July 10, 2025] – The AutoNation Orange Bowl Basketball Classic is set to return to Amerant Bank Arena on Saturday, December 13th for its 31st annual edition. This year’s exciting doubleheader will...
Capital One Orange Bowl Media Tour presented by Duffy’s Sports Grill MIAMI LAKES, Fla. (July 7, 2025) - Orange Bowl is partnering with 560 WQAM (WQAM-AM) and ESPN West Palm (106.3 FM) to broadcast the Capital One Orange Bowl Media Tour presented by Duffy’s Sports Grill during this summer’s college football...
