2025 Sun Bowl
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| 2025 Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 92nd Sun Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 31, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Sun Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | El Paso, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Darian Mensah (QB, Duke) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Duke by 3[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Tim O'Dey (Big Ten) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 44,975 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | CBS | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Brad Nessler (play-by-play), Gary Danielson (analyst), and Jenny Dell (sideline) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2025 Sun Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 31, 2025, at the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas. The 92nd annual Sun Bowl game began at approximately 12:00 p.m. MST and aired on CBS.[2][3] It was one of the 2025–26 bowl games concluding the 2025 FBS football season. For sponsorship reasons, the game was officially named the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, named after the mascot of Frosted Flakes breakfast cereal.[4][a]
The Duke Blue Devils from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) defeated the Arizona State Sun Devils from the Big 12 Conference, 42–39.[6]
Arizona State Sun Devils
The game featured Arizona State from the Big 12 Conference, selected to this bowl as a legacy member of the Pac-12 Conference, and Duke, champions of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).[7] This was the second-ever meeting between the two teams, the first one having been the 2014 Sun Bowl, which was won by Arizona State, 36–31.[8]
Arizona State compiled an 8–4 record and were intermittently ranked during the regular season.[9] The Sun Devils defeated two ranked FBS teams, TCU and Texas Tech, and lost to one ranked team, Arizona.
Duke Blue Devils
Duke posted a 7–5 regular-season record and qualified for the 2025 ACC Championship Game on December 6, which they won in overtime against Virginia in a rematch. Three of the Blue Devils' five losses were against ranked teams: Illinois, Georgia Tech, and Virginia in mid-November. Duke entered the Sun Bowl with an 8–5 record.[10]
Game summary
| Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| Arizona State | 14 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 39 |
| Duke | 14 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 42 |
at Sun Bowl • El Paso, Texas
- Date: December 31, 2025
- Game time: 12:00 p.m. MST
- Game weather: Sunny • Temperature: 55 °F (13 °C) • Wind: 2 mph (3.2 km/h) north
- Game attendance: 44,975
- Referee: Tim O'Dey
- TV announcers (CBS): Brad Nessler (play-by-play), Gary Danielson (analyst), and Jenny Dell (sideline)
- Box score
Statistics
| Statistics | ASU | DUKE |
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| First downs | 22 | 24 |
| Plays–yards | 75–619 | 87–539 |
| Rushes–yards | 37–244 | 36–212 |
| Passing yards | 375 | 327 |
| Passing: comp–att–int | 27–38–1 | 29–51–1 |
| Time of possession | 26:33 | 33:07 |
| Team | Category | Player | Statistics |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona State | Passing | Jeff Sims | 27/38, 3 TD, 1 INT |
| Rushing | Jason Brown Jr. | 12 rushes, 120 yards | |
| Receiving | Jalen Moss | 5 rec, 129 yards, 1 TD | |
| Duke | Passing | Darian Mensah | 29/51, 4 TD, 1 INT |
| Rushing | Nate Sheppard | 22 rushes, 170 yards, 1 TD | |
| Receiving | Que'Sean Brown | 10 rec, 178 yards, 2 TD |