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The matchup for the 2023 Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl was shrouded in mystery until the last minute. In that regard, the matchup for the 2024 Sun Bowl has a one year head start in the mystery department.
“I have no idea,” was how executive director Bernie Olivas described the 2024 game, which presumably will pit a team from the ACC against someone from a new Pac-12, or the Big 12, or the Big 10.
Sun Bowl December 29, 2006.
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The problem is that the Sun Bowl was under contract with the Pac-12 through 2025, and at the moment, that league is slated to be down to two teams by this summer.
The Sun Bowl is under contract with the ACC to provide a power-conference opponent, and a league with Oregon State and Washington State doesn’t qualify as one of those and probably still wouldn’t if it picks up some or all of the Mountain West.
On some level the Pac-12 — OSU and WSU — has three years to cobble something back together, but the 2024 Sun Bowl doesn’t have three years to figure things out.
So what gives? Olivas and his team are waiting until the end of bowl season on Jan. 8, and until then there won’t be any phone calls to what is presumably a lonely Pac-12 office.
And thus, there is no real idea what the future holds for college football’s second-oldest bowl for the next two seasons, other than plenty of bowl-eligible teams would like to come to the Sun Bowl. The Sun Bowl is one of seven bowls with ties to the Pac-12 in the same boat.
“We have a two-team conference,” Olivas said of the Sun Bowl’s contractual obligation to the Pac-12. “Right now we don’t know and we haven’t spoken with anybody.
“We’re afraid if we start negotiating with someone, the Pac-12 is going to jump on us, or the Pac-2, and say ‘Hold on, you’re still part of us.’ We want to…
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Author : The El Paso Times
Publish date : 2023-12-26 12:04:45
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