2025 Fenway Bowl
The 2025 Fenway Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 27, 2025, at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. The fourth annual Fenway Bowl began at approximately 2:15 p.m. EST and aired on ESPN. The Fenway Bowl was one of the 2025–26 bowl games concluding the 2025 FBS football season. The game was sponsored by cloud storage company Wasabi Technologies and was officially known as the Wasabi Fenway Bowl.
[2025 2025 Army Black Knights football team|Army Black Knights football team|Army] of the American Conference defeated [2025 2025 UConn Huskies football team|UConn Huskies football team|UConn], an [NCAA Division I NCAA Division I FBS independent schools|FBS independent schools|FBS independent], by a 41–16 score.
Teams
Based on conference tie-ins, the game was expected to feature teams from Atlantic Coast Conference, American Conference, or FBS independent Notre Dame. The announced matchup was between Army of the American Conference and FBS independent UConn. UConn and Army had previously played each other nine times, with UConn holding a slight 5–4 series lead entering the Fenway Bowl.
UConn Huskies
UConn lost two of their first three games, but thereafter only had one defeat in their nine remaining games. The Huskies entered the Fenway Bowl with a 9–3 record. UConn was the defending Fenway Bowl champion, having defeated North Carolina in the 2024 edition.
Army opened their season with a loss to Tarleton State, an FCS program; their record stood at 3–4 at the end of October. The Black Knights won three of their next four games, then suffered a one-point defeat to Navy on December 13. Army entered the Fenway Bowl with a 6–6 record.