The Washington football team will play Louisville in the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, Dec. 31, in El Paso, Texas, the Sun Bowl committee announced today.
The game will kick off at noon and will air on CBS television.
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The Huskies will be making their fifth appearance in the Sun Bowl, the second-oldest bowl game in the country. Washington and Louisville have never before met on the gridiron.
Washington first traveled to El Paso for a bowl game in 1979, when the Huskies beat Texas, 14-7. Following the 1986 season, the Dawgs lost to Alabama, 28-6, in El Paso. In 1995, the Huskies fell to Iowa, 38-18, and in the 2002 Sun Bowl, Purdue handed the Huskies a 34-24 loss on New Year’s Eve, reversing the score from the UW win over the Boilermakers in the Rose Bowl two seasons earlier.
The Huskies will be making their 43rd bowl-game appearance, dating back to their first, the 1924 Rose Bowl. The Dawgs have appeared in 16 different bowl games all-time and, over their last 13 bowls (counting this year’s Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl), have played in 11 different bowl games (UW twice played in the Alamo and Las Vegas Bowls during that span).
