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The Holiday Bowl is an annual college football bowl game held in San Diego, California. Operating since 1978, its current conference tie-ins are with the Pac-12 Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The bowl is held at Snapdragon Stadium; it was played at San Diego Stadium from 1978 to 2019, and at Petco Park from 2021 to 2023.
The San Diego State Aztecs college football team competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, representing San Diego State University in the Mountain West Conference. Since the team's inaugural season in 1921, San Diego State has appeared in 20 post-season bowl games.
The 1980 Holiday Bowl was a college football bowl game played December 19, 1980, in San Diego, California. It was part of the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season . The game is famous due to a furious fourth quarter rally—including a last-second "miracle" touchdown—that gave BYU a 46–45 victory over SMU .
The Poinsettia Bowl was an annual college football bowl game held in San Diego, California, from 2005 to 2016. The game was originally played from 1952 to 1955 between military services teams; in 2005 it was re-created by the organizers of the Holiday Bowl .
0–9. 1948 Harbor Bowl; 1986 Holiday Bowl; 1991 Freedom Bowl; 1998 Las Vegas Bowl; 2010 Poinsettia Bowl; 2011 New Orleans Bowl; 2012 Poinsettia Bowl; 2013 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
During his first five years as head coach of the Aztecs (2011–2015), he led the Aztecs to five bowl games and won San Diego State's first MW title in 2012 (shared), followed by an outright MW Championship in 2015. As of January 1, 2016, he has a 43–23 overall record as head coach of the Aztecs with a 30–9 conference record.
The 1978 Holiday Bowl was the inaugural college football bowl game of the Holiday Bowl. It was played on December 22, 1978, at San Diego Stadium in San Diego, California. The game was part of the 1978 NCAA Division I-A football season. It featured the Navy Midshipmen against the BYU Cougars. Navy won 23–16.
The 2024 Holiday Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 27, 2024, at Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego, California. [3] The 45th annual Holiday Bowl game featured the Syracuse Orange from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and the Washington State Cougars from the Pac-12 Conference .