UA headed to Alamo Bowl; Wyoming and Toledo slated for Tucson’s Arizona Bowl
TUCSON — The Wildcats are headed for a battle on the Alamo.
Arizona (9-3) finished 14th in the final College Football Playoff rankings and the Wildcats were rewarded Sunday with a berth in the Alama Bowl in San Antonio where they will face the Oklahoma Sooners.
The Sooners (10-2) are ranked 12th with road losses at Kansas and Oklahoma State. Oklahoma beat Texas in the Red River Rivalry and the Longhorns are headed to the College Football Playoff alongside Michigan, Alabama and Washington.
This will be UA’s second appearance in the Alamo Bowl. The Wildcats played future Big-12 rival Oklahoma State in the bowl game in 2010 losing 36-10.
This will be the third-ever meeting between the Wildcats and Sooners. The two programs played a home-and-home series in 1988 and 1989.
Arizona lost in Norman in 1988 by a score of 28-10 but returned the favor the next season winning 6-3 in a defensive dual in Tucson against the 6th ranked Sooners.
The 1989 game is one of just two in the modern-era (1961 vs. New Mexico) in which the Wildcats held an opponent to zero yards passing.
The Barstool Arizona Bowl will feature the Wyoming Cowboys for a second straight year.
The Cowboys (8-4, 5-3) finished 5th in the Mountain West Conference this season and will take on the Toledo Rockets (11-2, 8-0) from the Mid-American Conference.
The Rockets lost in the MAC title game to Miami (OH).
Wyoming fell to Ohio 30-27 in the Barstool Arizona Bowl last season.
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