40 FOR 40: The 2025 XBox Bowl

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🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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WWWWWWWWELCOME to the return of 40 For 40, our bowl preview series where every bowl game gets its own episode and each episode is exactly as long as that game deserves.
Who decides what “deserves” means? We do! Thank you for asking
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This episode was produced by Michael Ray Surber
Fullcast theme 40 For 40 intro arranged and performed by Russell Powell
Fullcast theme 40 For 40 outro arranged and performed by Matt
DID YOU KNOW: Spencer and Holly write Channel 6, a year-round newsletter that is mostly about football, until it’s not
Before the world ends (again), treat yourself to Jason’s critically praised novel and other work
Travel in your mind palace to Phantom Island, Ryan’s new show with Steven Godfrey, which is not a college football show because another simply cannot exist
Check out Surber’s band Killer Antz and his new show Podcasterino

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0:00.0	Xbox noise
0:12.9	Welcome
0:15.1	to the Xbox bowl preview
0:18.6	The bowl I cannot think about without laughing. My favorite bowl of the
0:23.4	entire calendar, including the one my alma mater is in making its first ever postseason appearance.
0:27.9	The Xbox Bowl, the former Bahamas Bowl, which has gone to the bowl heaven in the sky,
0:33.5	which is Frisco, Texas, following the Miami Beach Bowl. If ESPN sort of gets bored with it, they will move it to Frisco, Texas,
0:41.9	and they will play it at the Dallas Cowboys Practice Field,
0:46.2	which is like if you're an institution in Texas,
0:49.7	you have to have a 10,000 capacity football stadium.
0:53.2	That includes if you're the Dallas Cowboys, and you already have a 10,000 capacity football stadium. That includes if you're the Dallas Cowboys and you already have a 100,000 seat football
0:58.6	stadium.
0:59.1	You also need this one because Jerry Jones will scrap and scratch and claw for every single
1:03.6	dollar he can possibly get out of you.
1:05.9	The venue is funny.
1:07.8	It is an NFL team's like not even backup stadium like they sent some high school football
1:14.0	stadium events here which is also why it has to have 10,000 seats because of course they did the
1:17.9	water burger's Friday night stars and every Friday night at the fucking the fucking
1:22.8	the fucking beach games to this place this is the weird. The Bahamas background of it is funny.
1:30.0	The Bahamas bowl was funny because it was the Popeye's Bahamas bowl when there wasn't
1:33.5	a Popeyes there. And then it died and it was not until November that we learned that it would
1:38.7	be replaced by the Xbox Bowl. Like you would look at ball projections in August, September,
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