2023 Guaranteed Rate Bowl
The 2023 Guaranteed Rate Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 26, 2023, at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona. The 34th annual Guaranteed Rate Bowl featured Kansas of the Big 12 Conference and UNLV of the Mountain West Conference. The game began at approximately 7:10 p.m. MST and was aired on ESPN. The Guaranteed Rate Bowl was one of the 2023–24 bowl games concluding the 2023 FBS football season. The game's title sponsor was residential mortgage company Guaranteed Rate.
| 2023 Guaranteed Rate Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 34th Guaranteed Rate Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 26, 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Chase Field | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Phoenix, Arizona | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Jason Bean (QB, Kansas) & Kenny Logan (S, Kansas) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Kansas by 10.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Tim Hedgepeth (ACC) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 26,478 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Beth Mowins (play-by-play), Kirk Morrison (analyst), and Stormy Buonantony (sideline) (ESPN) Jorge Sedano (play-by-play) and Max Starks (analyst) (ESPN Radio) | ||||||||||||||||||
Kansas won the game 49–36. Kansas quarterback Jason Bean, who won offensive MVP, set the Guaranteed Rate Bowl record for passing touchdowns with 6, split between receivers Luke Grimm and Lawrence Arnold who both had 3, tying former Jayhawk Dezmon Briscoe's record for receiving touchdowns.