San Diego State Aztecs accept invite to play in EasyPost Hawaii Bowl

SAN DIEGO (CNS) – The San Diego State Aztecs will head to Hawaii subsequent month, with the soccer workforce accepting an invite to play Center Tennessee within the 2022 EasyPost Hawaii Bowl on Dec. 24.

SDSU is 7-5 on the 12 months. The workforce has by no means earlier than confronted the Blue Raiders, who’ve an an identical file. The sport might be performed at Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Advanced and might be broadcast nationally by ESPN.

“I am excited that we get an opportunity to play yet one more time for our seniors,” San Diego State coach Brady Hoke mentioned. “I am happy with the best way our workforce has fought by way of adversity this 12 months and to make one other bowl recreation is a testomony to their dedication and exhausting work. We’re wanting ahead to a taking part in a tricky Center Tennessee workforce and to spend every week in Hawaii.”

The Aztecs are in a bowl recreation for the twelfth time within the final 13 seasons, after withdrawing from consideration within the shortened 2020 COVID season.

“On behalf of the EasyPost Hawaii Bowl Government Committee, I congratulate each San Diego State and Center Tennessee on profitable seasons and we stay up for welcoming the gamers, coaches and followers of each universities to the Aloha State,” mentioned govt director Daryl Garvin. “Each groups had sturdy finishes to their respective seasons and we anticipate a extremely aggressive match-up along with the one-of-a-kind ambiance that followers have come to count on on the EasyPost Hawaii Bowl.”

In accordance with college data, San Diego State is 25-5 all-time in opposition to present Convention USA members, together with a 38-24 win in opposition to 2021 C- USA champion UTSA in final 12 months’s Frisco Bowl in Frisco, Texas. The Aztecs are taking part in of their twentieth bowl recreation all-time and sixteenth in its Division I period. SDSU is taking part in within the Hawaii Bowl for the second time, after beating Cincinnati 42- 7 within the 2015 bowl.