2024 ReliaQuest Bowl (December)

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2024 ReliaQuest Bowl
39th ReliaQuest Bowl
DateDecember 31, 2024
Season 2024
Stadium Raymond James Stadium
Location Tampa, Florida
Favorite ALA by 12.5
Referee Tutu Salaam (Big 12) [1]
United States TV coverage
Network ESPN
ESPN Radio
Announcers Dave Flemming (play-by-play), Brock Osweiler (analyst), and Stormy Buonantony (sideline) (ESPN)
Chris Carlin (play-by-play), Aaron Murray (analyst), and Mike Peasley (sideline) (ESPN Radio)
ReliaQuest Bowl
 < 2024 (Jan.) 2025 > 

The 2024 ReliaQuest Bowl is a college football bowl game that is scheduled to be played on December 31, 2024, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. The 39th annual ReliaQuest Bowl (previously played as the Outback Bowl from 1996 to 2022) will feature the Alabama Crimson Tide of the Southeastern Conference, and the Michigan Wolverines of the Big Ten Conference; a rematch of the previous season’s Rose Bowl (CFP semifinal). The game is scheduled to begin at 12:00 noon EST and will air on ESPN. [2] [3] It is one of the 2024–25 bowl games concluding the 2024 FBS football season.

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Teams

The game will feature the (7–5) Michigan Wolverines of the Big Ten Conference, versus the (9–3) Alabama Crimson Tide of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). [4] The bowl game is a rematch of the previous season’s Rose Bowl (CFP semifinal), where the Michigan Wolverines won 27–20 in overtime. [5] In the CFP National Championship, Michigan defeated Alabama’s head coach, Kalen DeBoer, at his previous post with the Washington Huskies. [6] Both DeBoer and Michigan’s Sherrone Moore are in their first season as head coach with each program. [7]

Michigan Wolverines

On December 3, Kirk Campbell was fired by Michigan as offensive coordinator, and tight ends coach Steve Casula replaced him as the interim offensive coordinator for the ReliaQuest Bowl. [8] In the following weeks, All-American juniors Mason Graham, [9] Will Johnson, [10] Kenneth Grant, [11] and Colston Loveland, [12] each declared for the 2025 NFL draft, opting to sit out the bowl game as projected first-round picks. They were joined as opt-outs by Donovan Edwards, Kalel Mullings, Josaiah Stewart, Makari Paige, Tyler Morris and Myles Hinton. [13] With the opt-outs and the graduating class in 2023, Michigan returned zero starters on offense or defense from the two teams previous meeting in the 2024 Rose Bowl. [14]

Alabama Crimson Tide

The Crimson Tide were the first team left out in the inaugural 12 team 2024–25 College Football Playoff (CFP), despite being the No. 11 ranked team in the country. Alabama was not selected into the playoff as both the automatic qualifying Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and Big 12 Conference champions were ranked lower, pushing Alabama to No. 13 in the seeding. [15] All-SEC defensive back Malachi Moore will not play in the bowl game with an injury. [16]

Game summary

2024 ReliaQuest Bowl
Quarter1234Total
No. 11 Alabama----0
Michigan----0

at Raymond James StadiumTampa, Florida

Statistics

StatisticsALAMICH
First downs
Plays–yards
Rushes–yards
Passing yards
Passing: compattint––––
Time of possession
TeamCategoryPlayerStatistics
AlabamaPassing
Rushing
Receiving
MichiganPassing
Rushing
Receiving

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