Florida students receive Orange Bowl tickets from Dunkin’ for friendship
By Malcolm Shields
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WELLINGTON, Florida (WPBF) — On Thursday at noon, the Oregon Ducks play the Texas Tech Red Raiders in the Orange Bowl college football game at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens.
Two Palm Beach County high school students scored tickets to the big game.
In celebration of National Month of Giving, Dunkin’ awarded Caleb Butler and his best friend, Troy Baldwin, with four tickets to the Capital One Orange Bowl in December.
Butler was the quarterback of the Dr. Joaquín García High School football team during the 2025 high school football season.
Butler and Baldwin met two years ago when Butler enrolled at the high school and joined the Best Buddies Program.
The Best Buddies Program fosters one-to-one friendships between individuals with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
WPBF 25 News first shared their friendship in an October 2025 interview.
Before Butler heads off to college at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Dunkin’ wanted to honor Butler and Baldwin’s friendship by gifting the tickets.
Recently, Dunkin’ honored student veterans at Florida International University and their families with tickets to the AutoNation Orange Bowl Basketball Classic on Dec. 13.
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