2025 LA Bowl


The 2025 LA Bowl was a college football bowl game that was played on December13, 2025, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. The fifth LA Bowl began at approximately 5:00p.m.PST and aired on ABC. The LA Bowl was one of the 2025–26 bowl games concluding the 2025 FBS football season. The game was sponsored by former National Football League player Rob Gronkowski and sports nutrition and lifestyle brand Bucked Up, and was officially known as the Bucked Up LABowl Hosted by Gronk.
The Washington Huskies football team|Washington Huskies] from the Big Ten Conference defeated the Boise State Broncos football team|Boise State Broncos] from the Mountain West Conference by a score of 38–10.
This was reportedly the final playing of the LA Bowl, with the bowl's contract expiring with this edition.

Teams

The game featured the Washington Huskies football team|Washington Huskies], a former Pac-12 Conference legacy team that had moved to the Big Ten, playing against the 2025 [Boise State Broncos football team|Boise State Broncos], champions of the 2025 [Mountain West Conference football season|Mountain West Conference]. This was the seventh meeting between the two teams; their most recent prior meeting was in 2023, which Washington won, 56–19. This was also the third time the teams had met in bowl games, with Washington winning the 2019 Las Vegas Bowl, 38–7, and Boise State winning the 2012 Las Vegas Bowl, 28–26.

Washington Huskies

Washington entered the 2025 LA Bowl with a record of 8–4, tied for fifth place in their conference. This was their first appearance in the LA Bowl. The Huskies started the season with a 5–1 record, but split their last six games 3–3, including a win over No. 23 Illinois and losses to Wisconsin, Michigan, and No. 6 Oregon.

Boise State Broncos

Boise State entered the bowl game with a record of 9–4. The Broncos won their final two games, which set up a four-way tie between UNLV Rebels football team|UNLV], San Diego State and New Mexico. Per Mountain West tiebreaker rules, an aggregate of different computer rankings were used to determine who would play in the conference championship game, with Boise State and UNLV winning the tiebreaker. The Broncos defeated UNLV, 38–21, in the 2025 Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game. This was the team's second appearance in the LA Bowl and their first since the 2023 editioon, which they lost to UCLA, 35–22. It was also Boise State's final game as a member of the Mountain West Conference, with the Broncos set to join the Pac-12 Conference in 2026.

Game summary

StatisticsBOISWASH
First downs1617
Plays–yards72–31161–355
Rushes–yards58128
Passing yards253227
Passing: ––22–43–517–28–0
Time of possession32:0628:04

Game recap

The Boise State Broncos and Washington Huskies started the game by trading field goals in the first quarter.
Then, in the second quarter, Huskies quarterback Demond Williams launched a 78-yard touchdown pass to Denzel Boston to take a 10–3 lead. After a fourth-down stop on defense, the Washington offense responded with a 57-yard touchdown drive, capped off by a 6-yard touchdown catch by receiver Dezmen Roebuck.
After an interception by Boise State QB Maddux Madsen, Washington scored another touchdown, a 3-yard connection from Demond Williams to Raiden Vines-Bright to extend their commanding lead to 24–3 at the half.