2012 Capital One Bowl

DateJanuary 2, 2012Season2011StadiumFlorida Citrus BowlLocationOrlando, FloridaMVPAlshon Jeffery (South Carolina WR)FavoriteSouth Carolina by 1RefereeJerry McGinn (Big East)Attendance61,351PayoutUS$4.55 millionUnited States TV coverageNetworkESPNAnnouncersJoe Tessitore (play-by-play)
Rod Gilmore (analyst)
Quint Kessenich (sideline)Nielsen ratings2.86

The 2012 Citrus Bowl, known as the Capital One Bowl for sponsorship purposes, was the sixty-sixth of the college footballbowl game, played on January 2, 2012 at the Florida Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida. Part of the 2011–12 bowl season, it featured No. 20 Nebraska of the Big Ten and No. 9 South Carolina of the SEC. The game began at 1:00 p.m. EST and was broadcast on ESPN.