Where is the Outback Bowl played at?

The Outback Bowl remains one of the best bowl games played usually on New Year’s Day.

Since 1995, the Outback Bowl has brought Big Ten and SEC football fans together over food.

Every season since Outback became the title sponsor of this bowl game, the game has featured a Big Ten opponent vs. an SEC opponent. The game is almost always played in the early afternoon on New Year’s Day. Given its status among the second-tier bowls, the two teams playing in this annual bowl game typically carry with them a top-25 ranking. So where is this game played at?

The Outback Bowl is played at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, home of the NFL‘s Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the AAC’s South Florida Bulls.

Where is the Outback Bowl?

While the Florida Gulf Coast is nothing like the Outback over in Australia, keep in mind that Outback Steakhouse is one of the biggest companies headquartered in Tampa, Florida. For a bowl game to be played outside in early January, one would need great weather in a great event city. Tampa clearly checks both of those boxes. Of course, this bowl game is all about the food.

The winner of this high-profile bowl game gets to choose the free appetizer to be served at Outback restaurants across the country. If a Big Ten team wins the game, Outback patrons can request a free coconut shrimp as their appetizer. Should an SEC Team win the bowl game, then they can help themselves to Outback’s signature appetizer, which is the Bloomin’ Onion.

However the Outback Bowl ends, everybody wins a free appetizer at your neighborhood Outback.

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