Gasparilla Bowl Odds: Florida Versus Tulane Spread, Total, Preview

The Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl will kick off on Dec. 20 at 3:30 p.m. ET during the 2024-25 College Football Bowl Season. The game is held at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and USF Bulls. This year, the Florida Gators (7-5) play the American runners-up Tulane Green Wave (10-3). Below, we'll look at Gasparilla Bowl odds and bowl history.

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Gasparilla Bowl Odds

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Florida opened a -9.5 favorite over Tulane and the over/under opened at 49.5 points.

Florida Team Notes

• Regional in-state bowl game for Florida. Gainesville sits about two hours from Tampa.
• Defensive secondary is struggling with injuries. Top corner Jason Marshall suffered a season ending injury and his two direct backups missed multiple weeks. Safety Asa Turner missed a majority of the season and DB Aaron Gates sat out Week 14.
• Seems like pretty team-wide buy in. Multiple players already announced they would forego the NFL Draft and return to Gainesville next season. A few rotators hit the portal, but this team should be pretty intact.

Tulane Team Notes

• Starting QB Darian Mensah hit the transfer portal. Nobody else on the roster attempted more than 12 passes.
• Backup Ty Thompson hit the transfer portal, but will start and play in this game.
• Top three QBs in the transfer portal, though backup Ty Thompson said he will play (and start) in this game. There's nothing behind him, though.
• Lost last two games of the season and looked vastly worse in its final eight quarters of play than the rest of the season (both losses as favorites).

Gasparilla Bowl betting

Last season, Georgia Tech beat UCF, 30-17, as six-point underdogs. A combined 47 points fell well shy of the 66.5-point over/under posted. The Yellow Jackets needed just 87 yards passing to get the job done, rushing for 284 yards in the process.

UCF played in two of the last three Gasparilla Bowls, with wins in 2019 and 2021. Typically, an in-state program appears in the Gasparilla Bowl. Of four favorites to cover in the Gasparilla Bowl, three of them won outright. Unders have a slight edge in this one, cashing in 8 of 15 games, and in five of the last eight outings.

History

Below are historical results of the Gasparilla Bowl.

The first Gasparilla Bowl was played in 2008–then known as the St. Petersburg Bowl–where USF beat Memphis 41-14. Besides Gasparilla and St. Petersburg, this bowl has gone under the name "Beef-O-Brady's Bowl" for a time.

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