2024 Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl | |||||||||
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91st Sun Bowl | |||||||||
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Date | December 31, 2024 | ||||||||
Season | 2024 | ||||||||
Stadium | Sun Bowl | ||||||||
Location | El Paso, Texas | ||||||||
Referee | (Big 12) [1] | ||||||||
United States TV coverage | |||||||||
Network | CBS | ||||||||
Announcers | Brad Nessler (play-by-play), Gary Danielson (analyst), and Jenny Dell (sideline) | ||||||||
The 2024 Sun Bowl is a college football bowl game that is scheduled to be played on December 31, 2024, at the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas. The 91st annual Sun Bowl game will feature the Louisville Cardinals from the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Washington Huskies from the Big Ten Conference. The game is scheduled to kickoff at 12:00 p.m. MST and will be shown on CBS. [2] [3] The Sun Bowl will be one of the 2024–25 bowl games concluding the 2024 FBS football season. The bowl game will be sponsored by Kellogg's Frosted Flakes breakfast cereal. The game will be officially known as the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, based on its mascot, Tony the Tiger.
The bowl features the Louisville Cardinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Washington Huskies of the Big Ten Conference; Washington was selected due to being a former Pac-12 Conference school. [4]
This is the first ever meeting between Louisville and Washington. [5]
The Cardinals enter the game with an 8–4 record (5–3 in the ACC), tied for fourth place in their conference.
This is Louisville's second Sun Bowl; the Cardinals previously won the 1958 edition against Drake.
The Huskies enter the game with a 6–6 record (4–5 in the Big Ten), tied for ninth place in their conference.
This is Washington's fifth Sun Bowl; the Huskies are 1–3 in their 4 previous appearances, winning in 1979 and losing in 1986, 1995, and 2002.
Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Louisville | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Washington | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
at Sun Bowl • El Paso, Texas
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Rushes–yards | – | – |
Passing yards | ||
Passing: comp–att–int | –– | –– |
Time of possession |
Team | Category | Player | Statistics |
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