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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/Honestly_ on 2025-12-22 15:04:25+00:00.
Once again, r/CFB was the “Official Fan Voice of the Game” of the 2025 Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl, this time between the NC State Wolfpack and Memphis Tigers!
As part of that, r/CFB was the sponsor of the game’s MVP Award (the trophy is a small chest of treasure) and, once again, comments from the first half of the game thread were highlighted on the Raymond James Stadium video board during the 4th quarter.
(1) Game Thread Comments on Video Board
Last year we started with 3 comments, which went a bit slow (thankfully the organizers agreed), so we upped the number to 10 over a 41 second video that cycled through twice.
Here is the raw file of that display.
This is a photo of what it looked like on the board!
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Congratulations to PeanutButterOtter, snough9, Kotruljevic1458, PunishedLeBoymoder, TrustMeIKnowThisOne, SIUtheE, joshthewumba, thismorningscoffee, Balloutonu, & mattt0dd!
As last year, all 10 comments have been awarded the r/CFB Promoter flair!
(2) The MVP Trophy presenting sponsor
r/CFB was the presenting sponsor of the game’s MVP Award, won by NC State LB Caden Fordham (the first defensive player to win this bowl’s MVP).
This led to the remarkable moment of seeing the r/CFB Gasparailla Logo held aloft by a pirate as Paul Carcaterra announced the "MVP Trophy presented by r/CFB"!
Here’s on-field video of some of that.
As well as from the broadcast.
There were five of us on the ground in Tampa, helping run their social, capturing the field-level activity, doing reporting, and handing out the money raised by users (more on that one in a later post), along with help from the rest of the r/CFB team in sorting through a lot of activity that just needed to get done. We were joined by a visitor from the Reddit Community Funds team, as they helped power many of the extras this season.
Thanks to all who participated in the Game Thread and making r/CFB the biggest and best college football Community!