2024 Fenway Bowl
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| 2024 Wasabi Fenway Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 3rd Fenway Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 28, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Fenway Park | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Boston, Massachusetts | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Offense: Joe Fagnano (QB, UConn)[1] Defense: Pryce Yates (DL, UConn)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | North Carolina by 1.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Patrick Foy (Mountain West)[3] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 27,900 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Chris Cotter (play-by-play), Mark Herzlich (analyst), and Coley Harvey (sideline) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2024 Fenway Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 28, 2024, at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. The third edition of the Fenway Bowl game featured UConn and North Carolina. The game started at approximately 11:00 a.m. EST and was aired on ESPN.[4][5] The Fenway Bowl was one of the 2024–25 bowl games concluding the 2024 FBS football season. The game was sponsored by cloud storage company Wasabi Technologies and was officially known as the Wasabi Fenway Bowl.
UConn Huskies
The matchup of UConn and North Carolina was announced on December 8.
UConn, competing as an independent, compiled an 8–4 record, coming off of their first winning season since 2010. The Huskies did not face any ranked teams during the season.
With the win over North Carolina, the Huskies won their first bowl game since the 2010 PapaJohns.com Bowl.
North Carolina Tar Heels
North Carolina compiled a 6–6 overall record (3–5 in conference play) during the regular season. The Tar Heels started the season with three consecutive wins, lost their next four games, won the next three, and finished with back-to-back losses. They did not face any ranked teams.