| 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] |
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| Former names | |
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| 2023 matchup | |
| Louisville vs. USC (USC 42–28) | |
| 2024 matchup | |
| (December 27, 2024) | |
The Holiday Bowl is an annual college football bowl game held in San Diego, California. The bowl was founded in 1978. It is held at Snapdragon Stadium. The bowl has tie-ins with the Pac-12 Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). It was played at San Diego Stadium from its inception in 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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