DALLAS (FWAA) — Vanderbilt’s De’Rickey Wright is this week’s nominee for the 2023 Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award. Wright, a senior, lost his mother in 2020 and has fought through both football and injury concerns to be on the brink of becoming the first person from his family to...
DALLAS (FWAA) — UCLA’s Laiatu Latu is this week’s nominee for the 2023 Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award. Latu, a senior, has recovered from neck surgery to become a dominant defensive force for the 25th-ranked Bruins. Latu, who spent the first three years of his career at Washington, suffered a...
DALLAS (FWAA) — Texas Tech’s Bryce Ramirez is this week’s nominee for the 2023 Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award. Ramirez, a senior linebacker, has recovered from a compound leg fracture suffered last year to play in all six games for the Red Raiders this season. “After I got injured, my...
DALLAS (FWAA) — Hawai’i’s Karsyn Pupunu is this week’s nominee for the 2023 Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award. Pupunu, a native of Lahaina, Maui, lost four family members in the August wildfire in Maui, which was the deadliest wildfire in the United States in more than a century. Pupunu lost...
DALLAS (FWAA) — Navy’s Xavier McDonald is this week’s nominee for the 2023 Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award. McDonald, a senior, has overcome a challenging upbringing in St. Petersburg, Fla., to earn a Service Academy appointment. McDonald took care of four younger siblings while growing up, after both of his...
MIAMI LAKES, Fla. (www.orangebowl.org) – Tickets are now on sale for the 90th Capital One Orange Bowl. The game kicks off on Saturday, December 30 at 4 p.m. ET at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. The 2023 Capital One Orange Bowl will feature a matchup between the Atlantic Coast...
DALLAS (FWAA) — Virginia’s Mike Hollins is the first weekly nominee for the 2023 Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award. Hollins, a graduate student, has played in all three games for the Cavaliers this season after surviving the Nov. 13, 2022 shootings that took the lives of three of his...
MIAMI LAKES, Fla. (orangebowl.org) – Orange Bowl has partnered with Moss, Bank of America and Florida Blue to bring its annual Orange Bowl Creative Art Contest to South Florida schools. The initiative affords all K-12 students in Miami-Dade and Broward schools the opportunity to win prizes by submitting artwork. The theme...
MIAMI LAKES, Florida (orangebowl.org) – Today, the Orange Bowl Committee commemorated the College Football Playoff (CFP) Foundation’s “Extra Yard for Teachers Week” by surprising a South Florida teacher with a $1,000 DonorsChoose gift card. The Orange Bowl team alongside their mascot, OBIE, surprised Ms. Marcia Mitchell in her classroom at Norland...
Miami Lakes, Fla. – July 24, 2023 – Today, the Orange Bowl Committee announced four highly competitive collegiate men’s basketball programs to headline this year’s AutoNation Orange Bowl Basketball Classic. In its 29th year, the Classic will feature the Florida Gators versus the University of Richmond Spiders; and the Florida...
