The game has been sponsored by TaxSlayer.com since 2012, and starting with the 2018 edition is officially known as the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl.

Most hold that Walter McRae Sr. and Steve Freel sold the association on the name both being fans of the Florida Gators. The Gator Bowl Association adopted the named and elected officers just four days before the game. Only 7,362 were at the game.

Since 2007, the game has been sponsored by Valero Energy Corporation and officially known as the Valero Alamo Bowl.

2022 Gator Bowl

Alligators first appeared during the Oligocene epoch about 37 million years ago. The name "alligator" is probably an anglicized form of el lagarto, the Spanish term for "the lizard", which early Spanish explorers and settlers in Florida called the alligator.

the San Antonio Independent School District Nicknamed "The Rock Pile" due to its primarily limestone construction it was completed in September 1940 as a Works Progress Administration project. The stadium is currently owned and operated by the San Antonio Independent School District as a high school football and soccer facility.

This will be the sixth Alamo Bowl all-time for Texas, which made its first appearance in 1993 and its most recent ones in 2019 and 2020. Texas did not qualify for a bowl game in 2021.

alligator /ˈɡeɪ.t̬ɚ/ informal for alligator.

Gator is a slang word for alligator.

Michigan Stadium, or “The Big House,” is the largest stadium in the United States and the third-largest in the world. It is a football stadium for the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and can seat 107,601 people. However, it has hosted over 115,000 people at one time.

George Strait played a concert in the Alamodome in June of 2013 setting an all-time attendance record for the largest concert ever played in San Antonio; the attendance was 73,086 people.

Washington The University of Texas continues its 130th season of football on Thursday, Dec. 29 when the Longhorns meet Washington in the 30th Valero Alamo Bowl. The game will kick off from the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas at 8 p.m. CT on ESPN.