The Pac-12 Conference has announced its bowl game lineup for the 2024 and 2025 seasons, which includes six tie-ins.
The only two remaining members of the Pac-12, Oregon State and Washington State, will join the 10 former members in the previously agreed upon selection process. Teams will be selected following the announcement of the 12-team College Football Playoff field.
Each Pac-12 team will be available for selection for the DIRECTV Holiday Bowl, Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl, SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl, LA Bowl Hosted By Gronk, Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, Valero Alamo Bowl, and the ESPN bowl pool.
“We are thrilled to ensure Oregon State and Washington State student-athletes will continue to have opportunities to participate in the same level of premier postseason events as in years past,” said Pac-12 Executive Associate Commissioner of Football Operations Merton Hanks. “From the College Football Playoff to our esteemed bowl partners, we are thankful for the cooperation among multiple parties, including our colleagues across each participating conference, to secure these events.”
Dates for five of the six bowl games were previously announced. The date for the 2024 DIRECTV Holiday Bowl will be announced at a later date.
Pac-12 Bowl Lineup – 2024 through 2025
LA Bowl Hosted By Gronk
Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024
SoFi Stadium – Inglewood, Calif.
SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl
Friday, Dec. 27, 2024
Allegiant Stadium – Las Vegas, Nevada
Valero Alamo Bowl
Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024
Alamodome – San Antonio, Texas
Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl
Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024
Independence Stadium – Shreveport, La.
Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl
Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024
Sun Bowl Stadium – El Paso, Texas
DIRECTV Holiday Bowl
Date to be announced
Snapdragon Stadium – San Diego, Calif.
College Football Bowl Schedule
It’ll be interesting to see who gets which bowl. If it were up to the “conference,” WSU and Oregon St might get the nod over an equally deserving former member for a preferred bowl, but if it’s up to the bowl alone, it might go the other way.
Reportedly, each bowl chooses in its designated order of selection and can choose any bowl eligible former Pac-12 team that is not selected for the playoff. There is no requirement to choose a team with a better W-L record over a team with a worse W-L record. If a bowl wants a 6-6 team instead of an available 10-2 team, they are free to pick the 6-6 team.
Zero concerns about it.
Do Oregon State and Washington State get priority before the former PAC schools?
The former PAC 12 schools are no longer members of the conference. So no.
I don’t believe they have priority. Could be wrong.
I think Oregon State and Washington State will be grouped with the ten schools that left and divided up as they normally would had those teams never left. It’s going to be interesting to see how it all shakes out.
Hopefully MW schools fill in the other spots since were letting OSU and WSU join the conference.
I really like to see Oregon State & Washington State become Mountain West members too.
I don’t get this story. What am I missing? There are only 2 teams left in the Pac 12. How do the other 10 schools factor into any of this? They are now representing their new conferences. How could anyone other than OSU and WSU fill them?
This is just confirmation of the existing 2 years left on the contracts.
all 12 schools are eligible, unfortunately records and fanbase ($$$) dictate who the bowls select in their pecking order.
i”m thinking that most of the other bowls contracts expire in 2 years as well, and there will be a major reshuffle. There could be a scramble for more bowl dates to get in on the expanded playoffs.
Would love to see Oregon or USC end up in Shreveport (heh-heh)
Basically for bowl selection purposes, all the old Pac-12 teams will still be treated as one conference. So you likely won’t be seeing USC or Washington in, say, the Outback Bowl which is tied in with the Big 10. They would go to the Holiday Bowl or Sun Bowl like they would have before. It will be like this in ’24 and ’25.
I would not mind Arizona State end up in Shreveport for a Bowl game.
They’re hanging on. Reminds me of Belgium thinking they’re still a colonial power. Just join the Mountain West already.
Enough of the charade
I don’t disagree, but even if O/WSU were full members of the MW this same article would exist since the old bowl contracts run for this season and next. It’s much easier to just keep them grouped as the PAC12 for the next two bowl seasons rather then have the conferences and bowls involved try to scramble to create new tie ins.
Too bad this piece couldn’t get published on April Fools Day.
Bruh.
Cheer up Christian!!!
Cheer up Christian!!!
are there still people who care about the bowl games? seriously?
That a excellent question I would like to know Bill & I still enjoy watching Bowl games in December.
Bruh.
This is an absolute mess and exactly why if the lower bowls are going to survive, they need to do away with conference tie-ins and just get themselves the best matchup they can. it’s ridiculous that USC for example now has the chance to get to ANY Big Ten bowl AND ANY Pac 12 bowl.
Yeah, that’s the part I don’t understand at all. So a team like USC or Oregon can have a Signing Day-esque press conference where they pick the hat of the bowl they’re going to since they’ll have invites from both directions…