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2026 ReliaQuest Bowl

postseason college football bowl game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ140379076 ↗
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The 2026 ReliaQuest Bowl is a college football bowl game that is scheduled to be played on December 31, 2026, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. The 41st annual ReliaQuest Bowl (though only the fifth under said name after being played as the Outback Bowl from 1996 to 2022), game will feature teams from the Big Ten Conference and the Southeastern Conference. The game is scheduled to begin at 12:00 p.m. EST and will air on ESPN. It will be one of the 2026–27 bowl games concluding the 2026 FBS football season. The game's title sponsor is the ReliaQuest cybersecurity company.

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Based on conference tie-ins, the game will feature teams from the Big Ten Conference and the Southeastern Conference.

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The public source identifies “2026 ReliaQuest Bowl” as postseason college football bowl game. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around ReliaQuest, Bowl and postseason.

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This entry incorporates text from “2026 ReliaQuest Bowl” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.