Head Coach · Team Kai
Jon Gruden
- Led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to their first title, Super Bowl XXXVII
- Most wins in Buccaneers history
- Five division championships with the Raiders and Buccaneers
Next event · The first of 2027 · 80th anniversary · Est. 1946
Hula Bowl 2027
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The nation's longest running college football all-star game for seniors. Eighty years of the best in the game, one last showcase in front of every pro scout that matters.
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1946
Established
80th
Annual game
6,000+
Players since 1946
1,000+
NCAA and NFL coaches
100+
Seniors invited a year
The sideline
Coached by Super Bowl names
Two teams, Team Kai and Team Aina, prepared the way NFL rosters are: by coaches who have been to the biggest game there is.
Defensive Coordinator · Team Kai
John Fox
- 16 seasons as an NFL head coach: Panthers, Broncos, Bears
- Two Super Bowl appearances, XXXVIII and XLVIII
- Six division titles and seven playoff appearances
Who plays
Earn the invitation
- Chosen by the Hula Bowl Selection Committee: former college and professional players and coaches.
- Invitations are based on potential to make a professional roster, with input from NFL, UFL and CFL scouts.
- College seniors or recent graduates in good standing, from every division.
- Players arrive from across the United States, Canada, Australia and Japan.
- NFL, UFL and CFL scouts work Hula Bowl week practices, with one-on-one interviews.
The MVP wall
2026 Team Kai Offensive MVP
Preston Stone
QB · Northwestern
2026 Team Aina Offensive MVP
Jake Retzlaff
QB · Tulane
Game week
More than a game
01
Hall of Fame Banquet
Honoring the players, coaches and people who built the game, including NFL MVPs, Heisman winners and Hall of Famers.
02
Hula Fest
A community celebration of hula and Hawaiian culture, the heritage the game was born from.
03
The 80th Annual Hula Bowl
Eighty years of college football all-stars, and the first event on O-D's 2027 calendar.
Honors
Character counts here
2026 Joe Roth Award
Mark Gastineau
Five-time Pro Bowl defensive end and 1982 NFL Defensive Player of the Year.
2026 Trailblazer Award
Nate Boyer
Army Green Beret turned Texas Longhorns long snapper and NFL player.
2026 Military Ambassador
Lt. Col. (Ret.) Pete Chambers
Decorated Army veteran and physician with nearly 40 years of service.
1946 to today
Eighty years of legend
1947
First game, January 5: mainland college players against a Hawaiian Islands team.
Honolulu
For decades the game called Aloha Stadium home.
1998
The game moves to War Memorial Stadium in Kahului, Maui.
2027
The 80th game, powered by Offense-Defense. Date and place to be announced.
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Fifty years of building players
Since one camp in the summer of 1969, Offense-Defense has trained, evaluated and showcased more football players than almost anyone. The Hula Bowl is where college careers finish. O-D is where so many of them start.
1969
First O-D camp
142,234
Athletes trained
630
NFL alumni
560,000
Social and email reach
What O-D brings to the Hula Bowl
A player pipeline
O-D camps evaluate athletes nationwide, and the O-D All-American Bowl brings 1,000+ players to Camping World Stadium every December. Cam Newton and Lamar Jackson were both All-American Bowl MVPs.
A coaching network
A working database of more than 10,000 staff at 245 Division I programs, plus verified high school and junior college coach contacts across the country.
Reach
560,000 across O-D's social channels and email, and fifty years of families who already know the O-D name.
Event week experience
Two decades of running a national all-star week: practices, evaluations, media, banquets and game day.
The road to the pros
- O-D camps
- All-American Bowl
- College football
- The Hula Bowl
- The pros
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Be part of the 80th
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