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PITTSBURGH—The Pitt football team has been selected to play in the 2022 Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, the Atlantic Coast Conference and Sun Bowl Association announced on Sunday afternoon.
The Panthers (8-4, 5-3 ACC) will travel to El Paso, Texas to play in the historic game on Friday, Dec. 30 at 2 p.m. EST against the UCLA Bruins (9-3, 6-3 Pac-12) at the Sun Bowl.
CBS Sports will televise the contest nationally, with KDKA-TV airing the broadcast locally in Pittsburgh.
Pitt is 2-2 in four prior trips to the Sun Bowl. In previous games in El Paso, the Panthers defeated Kansas (33-19 in 1975) and Texas A&M (31-28 in 1989) before falling to Oregon State (3-0 in 2008) and Stanford (14-13 in 2018) in the second-oldest bowl game in all of college football, behind only the Rose Bowl.
This will mark the 15th all-time meeting between Pitt and UCLA, but the first since 1972.
The Panthers and Bruins met in the regular season annually from 1958-72 (except for 1965), with UCLA holding a 9-5 advantage in the series. It will be the first bowl matchup between the programs.
Coach Pat Narduzzi, who led Pitt to a bowl game for the sixth time in his eight seasons in Pittsburgh, and the Panthers are coming off an 8-4 regular season that finished with a perfect 4-0 month of November.
The Panthers enter the postseason as one of the hottest teams in all of college football.
Pitt outscored four conference opponents by a 126-58 margin during November and finished in second place in the ACC’s Coastal Division in 2022, a year after winning an outright conference championship.
Following last season’s 11-win campaign, the Panthers will be seeking a 20th victory in a two-season span for the first time in 40 years. Pitt last won 20 games over two years in 1981-82.
Fans can request tickets to the 2022 Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl by contacting the Pitt Athletics ticket office by calling 1-800-643-PITT (7488) or emailing tickets@athletics.pitt.edu.
More information regarding tickets will be announced soon.
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