Lamical Perine scored on a 61-yard run in the opening minute and didn’t stop until he climbed onto a platform for the postgame ceremony to receive the Orange Bowl’s most valuable player trophy. Perine totaled 181 yards rushing and receiving with three touchdowns Monday to help No. 6 Florida beat Virginia 36-28. The win means the Gators (11-2) will likely…

The Florida Gators will face the Virginia Cavaliers at the Orange Bowl at Hard Rock Stadium. NBC 6’s Dan Grossman reports.

While it’s going to be an exciting night Monday as the Florida Gators and Virginia Cavaliers battle in the 86th Orange Bowl game, there’s a serious layer to these events as officers and K-9’s have been at Hard Rock Stadium since early in the morning making sure everyone stays safe. Officers from several agencies, including Miami-Dade Police, arrived to...

NBC 6’s Derrick Lewis has the latest as police prepare for the Orange Bowl and the Super Bowl in February at Hard Rock Stadium.

NBC 6’s Derrick Lewis has the latest as police prepare for both tonight’s game and the Super Bowl in February.

For a half century of college football seasons, it was routine that every other year the Florida Gators would be making a trip to South Florida to play in front of their fans – but since ending that yearly game with the Miami Hurricanes after the 1987 game, a 31-4 thumping inside the old Orange Bowl stadium, those trips have…

For the first time in nearly two decades, the Florida Gators are making the trip down the turnpike for the annual Orange Bowl game – and for the first time in program history, the Virginia Cavaliers landed in South Florida to take part in the game. For the 86th edition of the annual football game that has crowned dozens of…

Virginia coach Bronco Mendenhall finds it amusing his Cavaliers have been designated the home team in the Orange Bowl. They’re playing Florida, which ensures most of the crowd on Dec. 30 will be cheering for the “visitors.” “This might be the most disproportionate home team-visiting team game ever,” Mendenhall said. “Based on the Gator responses I got all day here…

Virginia head coach Bronco Mendenhall and Florida head coach Dan Mullen spoke at a news conference for the Orange Bowl NCAA college football game in Hollywood. Florida plays Virginia in the Orange Bowl Dec. 30 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. NBC 6 anchor Chris Fischer reports.

Orange Bowl There isn’t much of a history between Florida and Virginia. The schools met in the College World Series in 2015, the Cavaliers ousting the Gators on the way to the national championship. They’ve played in the NCAA basketball tournament twice in recent years, the Gators winning in 26-point routs both times. But the lone football matchup between...

Students at Lake Forest Elementary in Pembroke Park can remember a time when their library was a little worse for wear – with stained carpet and a worn out welcome. But, thanks to the Orange Bowl Media Center Makeover Project, the space has a fresh coat of paint (literally), along with new sheleves and furniture.

Mark Richt, who now works as a commentator for the ACC Network, posted a message on social media saying he was “doing fine” after suffering the incident.

Had it stayed on Jan. 1, the Orange Bowl would have been competing against other traditional New Year’s Day games and kicked off around 1 p.m. EST.

The redshirt freshman completed 17 of 25 passes for 224 yards and three scores as Miami topped FIU 31-17 on Saturday, and now seems poised to bump Malik Rosier atop the Hurricanes’ depth chart.

Miami is staying home for bowl season, and will meet Wisconsin in the Orange Bowl on Dec. 30.

Fans of college football are rejoicing this weekend as the sport they love is back in action – and the state of Florida will again be at the forefront of all the action over the first weekend of the 2017 season.

More than 50 Florida State University fraternity members and administrators testified before a grand jury on Monday as it meets to consider filing charges in last month’s death of a fraternity pledge.

It will be the band’s first appearance in South Florida since playing the BB&T Center on October 1, 2009 – and their first visit to Miami-Dade County since their December 28th, 1999 show inside the now demolished Orange Bowl.

The 2016 Capital One Orange Bowl kicks off Friday at 8 PM inside Hard Rock Stadium and is expected to be a sellout, as both teams sold their allotment of tickets weeks ago.