For the fifth consecutive season, the Fresno State football team will play in a postseason bowl game.
The Bulldogs (8-4, 5-3 Mountain West) accepted an invitation Sunday to the Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl presented by Ginn & Juice by Dre & Snoop.
The state of play: Fresno State will face Miami (Ohio) (7-6, 6-2 Mid-American Conference) in the Arizona Bowl, scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 27, at 1:30 p.m. PT at Casino Del Sol Stadium in Tucs on, Arizona, home of the University of Arizona football program.
Miami (Ohio) finished in a three-way tie for second place in the MAC and lost the conference championship game to Western Michigan, 23-13, on Saturday.
The upcoming game marks the first-ever matchup between Fresno State and Miami (Ohio), and the Bulldogs’ first appearance in the Arizona Bowl, which was established in 2015.
It will be the 34th bowl appearance in Fresno State’s program history. The Bulldogs are 17-16 all-time in bowl games and have won five of their last six postseason contests dating back to 2017.
Fresno State is led by first-year head coach Matt Entz, who becomes the fifth coach in school history to lead the team to a bowl game in his first season. With a win, Entz would join Jeff Tedford (2017) as the only two first-year head coaches to win a bowl game for Fresno State.
What they’re saying: Snoop Dogg lauded Fresno State’s entry into the Arizona Bowl in a video posted to social media: