Cure Bowl
The Cure Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game played in December of each year in Orlando, Florida, currently at Exploria Stadium. The Cure Bowl is so named to promote awareness and research of breast cancer, with proceeds going to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The Cure Bowl usually features teams from the American Athletic Conference and the Sun Belt Conference. Since 2021, it has been sponsored by digital marketplace Tailgreeter and is officially known as the Tailgreeter Cure Bowl. History. The game has tie-ins with the American Athletic Conference (The American) and the Sun  Belt Conference. The inaugural game took place on December 19, 2015, featuring the San Jose State Spartans from the Mountain West Conference and the Georgia State Panthers of the Sun Belt Conference. A Mountain West team was invited to the bowl due to The American not having enough bowl-eligible teams to fill the tie-in. During the planning stages, it was originally proposed to hold the game at Bright House Networks Stadium on the campus of UCF. However, it was later decided to hold the game at the newly renovated Camping World Stadium in downtown Orlando, joining the Camping  World Bowl and the Citrus Bowl as annual bowl games at the venue. The bowl remained at Camping World Stadium through 2018, but moved to Exploria Stadium for 2019. In 2020, the game returned to Camping World Stadium. The game was acquired by ESPN Events in May 2020. The 2020 edition of the bowl, between Liberty and Coastal Carolina, became the first Cure Bowl to go to overtime. Sponsorship. From its inaugural playing in 2015 through 2018, the game was sponsored by AutoNation and was known as the "AutoNation Cure Bowl". In December 2019, FBC Mortgage became the new title  sponsor, making the game the "FBC Mortgage Cure Bowl". In December 2020, FBC Mortgage renewed its sponsorship of the bowl. On December 2, 2021, it was announced that Tailgreeter became the new sponsor of the bowl, now known as the "Tailgreeter Cure Bowl". Game results. All rankings are taken from the AP Poll prior to the game being played. Source: MVPs. Source: Most appearances. Updated through the December 2021 edition (7 games, 14 total appearances). Won: Arkansas State, San Jose State, Tulane Lost: Georgia Southern, Louisiana, Northern Illinois, UCF, Western Kentucky Appearances by conference. Updated for the December 2021 edition  (7 games, 14 total appearances). Independent appearances: Liberty (2019, 2020) Game records. Source: Media coverage. Television. The game was initially televised by CBS Sports Network, making it one of the few bowl games to not be televised by an ESPN network. Following the bowl's acquisition by ESPN Events in 2020, broadcasting moved to ESPN.