Strickland weighed in similarly. "The Gator Bowl is a first-class, grassroots organization — for many years under the steady leadership of Rick Catlett and just as much so with Greg McGarity ...

"It looked like it was raining in the stadium," said Rick Catlett, who is former president of the group that runs the Gator Bowl game and also worked for the city when it was trying to draw an NFL ...

The 1983 Gator Bowl game was probably the last straw. The game, played Dec. 30, 1983, saw the University of Florida beat the Iowa Hawkeyes, 10-6, in Jacksonville's old Gator Bowl stadium. More than 80 ...

The 80th Gator Bowl was played on Jan. 2 at EverBank Stadium. What will an expanded College Football Playoff mean to the nation's sixth-oldest bowl game?