The ReliaQuest Bowl is an annual college football bowl game held in Tampa, Florida. The event was known as the Hall of Fame Bowl from 1986 to 1995 and the Outback Bowl from 1996 to 2022. The event was held at Tampa Stadium from 1986 to 1999, when it moved to Raymond Stadium James was new at that time. This football game has been held on New Year’s Day for most of its history, often being the first kickoff on a day that is traditionally a college football postseason. The Hall of Fame Classic was a mid-level bowl game held at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama from 1977 to 1985. In the spring of 1986, the National Football Foundation and the College Football Hall of Fame decided to discontinue their association with the bowl. and reconnected with a new game to be held at Tampa Stadium, which would inherit the Hall of Fame Bowl designation. Tampa’s Hall of Fame Bowl did not originally have any conference affiliation, so organizers often sought to arrange a game between a team from a southern school and a team from another region of the country to maximize both game attendance and potential visitors to that region.

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Despite signing a six-year extension in 2019, Outback Steakhouse’s parent company decided to end its partnership with the game in March 2022 in a cost-cutting measure, ending its ongoing title sponsorship deal. longest streak in college football bowl history and led to the game’s temporary name change to the Tampa Bay Bowl. In June 2022, Tampa-based cybersecurity company ReliaQuest was announced as the new title sponsor. The 2024 postseason ReliaQuest Bowl is scheduled for December 31, 2024, becoming the first edition of the tournament since the inaugural edition is scheduled in December and the first edition was scheduled for New Year’s Eve, a change prompted by the Expanded College Football Playoff.