2023 Citrus Bowl
The 2023 Citrus Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 2, 2023, at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida. The 77th annual Citrus Bowl, the game featured the LSU Tigers of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and the Purdue Boilermakers of the Big Ten Conference. The game began at 1:08 p.m. EST and was aired on ABC. It was one of the 2022–23 bowl games concluding the 2022 FBS football season. LSU won 63–7. The 56 point margin tied the 2008 GMAC Bowl and 2018 Armed Forces Bowl for the largest bowl game margin at the time; that record was surpassed seven days later when Georgia mauled TCU 65–7 in the CFP national championship game.
| 2023 Cheez-It Citrus Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 77th Citrus Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | January 2, 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Camping World Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Orlando, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Malik Nabers (WR, LSU) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | LSU by 14.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Kevin Mar (Big 12) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 42,791 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$8,224,578 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ABC | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Bob Wischusen (play-by-play), Dan Orlovsky (analyst), Kris Budden (sideline) | ||||||||||||||||||
On November 15, 2022, Kellogg's, the parent company of the Cheez-It brand which already sponsored the Cheez-It Bowl at Camping World Stadium, announced it had also purchased sponsorship rights to the Citrus Bowl, making it officially the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl.