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The Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl’s 30-year association with the former Pac-12 will last another two years.
The 12 schools who were part of the league last year before it fell apart in realignment, “legacy Pac-12 schools,” will continue to honor Pac-12 bowl commitments for the remaining two years of the current cycle, whether they are in the Big 10, Big 12, ACC or the rump Pac-12. That announcement came following the recent conference football media days and conference meetings.
“We’ve been under contract with the Pac-12 since 1995. I’m glad we’ll be able to continue that relationship for at least two more years,” Sun Bowl executive director Bernie Olivas said. “I don’t know what’s going to happen after that, but we have it for at least two more years.”
Current conference bowl tie-ins are under contract through the 2025 bowl season and six bowls, including the Sun Bowl, have tie-ins to Pac-12 teams (the Alamo Bowl, Holiday Bowl, Las Vegas Bowl, Los Angeles Bowl and Independence Bowl are the others). That league went from 12 schools to two after the last realignment, with only Washington State and Oregon State remaining.
Tony the Tiger and the Sun Bowl renewed their naming-rights agreement for two more years
Under this agreement, the 10 who departed for the Big 10 (USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington), Big 12 (Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State and Utah) and ACC (Stanford and Cal), along with Oregon State and Washington State, will fill those Pac-12 commitments through 2025.
In the Dec. 31 Sun Bowl, one of those teams will be playing against an ACC team. Olivas said it is his understanding the Sun Bowl will be able to pick Cal or Stanford in the next two years only if those schools didn’t play the Sun Bowl’s ACC selection in the regular season.
Other bowls will face similar issues, with the potential of a legacy Pac-12 school being…
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Author : The El Paso Times
Publish date : 2024-07-12 16:37:29
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