For the fifth consecutive season, the Fresno State football team will play in a postseason bowl game.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The upcoming game marks the first-ever matchup between Fresno State and Miami (Ohio), and the Bulldogs\u2019 first appearance in the Arizona Bowl, which was established in 2015.<\/p>\n
It will be the 34th bowl appearance in Fresno State\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
What they\u2019re saying: Snoop Dogg lauded Fresno State\u2019s entry into the Arizona Bowl in a video posted to social media:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the fifth consecutive season, the Fresno State football team will play in a postseason bowl game. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-85953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}