| Holiday Bowl | |
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| DirecTV Holiday Bowl | |
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| Stadium | Snapdragon Stadium |
| Location | San Diego, California |
| Previous stadiums | San Diego Stadium (1978–2019) Petco Park (2021–2023) |
| Operated | 1978–present |
| Conference tie-ins | Pac-12 (1997–present) ACC (2022–present) |
| Previous conference tie-ins | |
| Payout | US$6,532,700 (2019)[1] |
| Website | holidaybowl |
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| Former names | |
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| 2023 matchup | |
| Louisville vs. USC (USC 42–28) | |
| 2024 matchup | |
| Syracuse vs. Washington State (Syracuse 52–35) | |
The Holiday Bowl is an annual college football bowl game held in San Diego, California. Operating since 1978, its current conference tie-ins are with the Pac-12 Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The bowl is held at Snapdragon Stadium; it was played at San Diego Stadium from 1978 to 2019, and at Petco Park from 2021 to 2023.
Historically, the Holiday Bowl had a long-standing tie-in with the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). During this period, the bowl hosted the game that clinched the national championship for the BYU Cougars in 1984, one of only two times a non-New Year's Six bowl game has done this.[a] The bowl also previously had tie-ins with the Big 12 Conference and the Big Ten Conference.
- ^ "2019 Bowl Schedule". collegefootballpoll.com. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
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