The Holiday Bowl in San Diego is changing its annual matchup between two of the Power Five Conferences, as the Pac-12 will continue to put forth a team in the game, but the Big Ten will not participate following the expiration of its six-year contract.  In its place in 2020 will be the ACC.

“We are pleased to partner with the San Diego County Credit Union Holiday Bowl and look forward to the annual postseason match up with the Pac-12,” said ACC Commissioner John Swofford. “The Holiday Bowl provides an outstanding destination and national platform for our student-athletes, teams and fans and we look forward to this new relationship.”

Not one of the 15 ACC schools has ever played in the Holiday Bowl. ACC schools include Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami, North Carolina, NC State, Pitt, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech, and Wake Forest. If bowl eligible and not in a College Football Playoff game, Notre Dame is also available to ACC bowls.  In 2018, the ACC had 11 schools play in bowl games.

The Pac-12 has participated in 21 straight Holiday Bowls, 24 in all. Stanford and Oregon State are the only two schools in the 12-team conference that haven’t played in any of the 41 Holiday Bowl games. The Pac-12 teams that have participated include Arizona (2 appearances), Arizona State (4), Cal (3), Colorado (1), Oregon (3), UCLA (1), USC (2), Utah (1), Washington (4) and Washington State (4).

In 2018 the game saw Northwestern upset Utah 31-20.  The 2019 game kicks off at 5:00 p.m., Friday, December 27, and will feature top teams from the Pac-12 and Big Ten.

By Staff of TheDailySportsHerald.com