The Gator Bowl is an annual college football

College football

College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

 bowl game

Bowl game

In North America, a bowl game is commonly considered to refer to one of a number of post-season college football games. Prior to 2002, bowl game statistics were not included in players' career totals and the games were mostly considered to be exhibition games involving a payout to participating...

 played at EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...

. Held continuously since 1946, it is the sixth oldest college bowl, as well as the first one ever televised nationally. Since 1996, it has been one of the bowl games that are regularly played on January 1 (New Year's Day

New Year's Day

New Year's Day is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar used in ancient Rome...

); when New Year's Day falls on a Sunday, the game is then played on the following Monday. As of September 1, 2011 the current title sponsor is Taxslayer.com.
According to writer Anthony C.