{"id":102155,"date":"2025-12-27T16:03:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/102155\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T16:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:03:20","slug":"duke-football-arrives-in-el-paso-receives-sun-bowl-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/102155\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke football arrives in El Paso, receives Sun Bowl welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 The Duke Blue Devils football team arrived in El Paso on Friday for the 2025 Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl.<\/p>\n

The Blue Devils received a festive welcome from the Sun Bowl Association. Mariachis played as the team arrived, the Sun Bowl Association\u2019s Sun Court was on hand, and players took part in the celebrations, enjoying the culture and hospitality El Paso is known for.<\/p>\n

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Head coach Manny Diaz joined in the fun. He was gifted a sombrero from the Sun Bowl Association and showed off some dance moves for the crowd.<\/p>\n

Duke enters the Sun Bowl with an 8\u20115 record and as 2025 ACC champions. The Blue Devils made headlines with a major upset over No. 16 Virginia in the conference championship game. Duke winning that game completely shook up the College Football Playoff picture. Despite feeling they deserved a playoff spot, Duke ultimately did not make it.<\/p>\n

The Blue Devils will hold their first practice in El Paso on Saturday as they continue preparations for the program\u2019s second ever Sun Bowl appearance.<\/p>\n

The 2025 Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl between Duke and Arizona State is set for Dec. 31, 2025, at Sun Bowl Stadium. Kickoff is scheduled for 12:00 p.m. MT.<\/p>\n

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For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 The Duke Blue Devils football team arrived in El Paso on Friday for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[25231,4857,138,140,139,11698,46626,11699,3142],"class_list":{"0":"post-102155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-blue-devils","9":"tag-duke-blue-devils","10":"tag-el-paso","11":"tag-el-paso-headlines","12":"tag-el-paso-news","13":"tag-sun-bowl","14":"tag-the-blue-devils","15":"tag-tony-the-tiger","16":"tag-virginia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}