By SuperWest Sports Staff
August 8, 2021
Current Pac-12 teams have made 34 appearances in the Sun Bowl since 1939, winning 20, losing 13, and tying 2, with 33 players being named either the offensive or defensive MVP.
The bowl has been played in El Paso, Texas, on the campus of UTEP since 1935. Along with the Sugar Bowl and Orange Bowl, it is the second-oldest bowl game in the country, behind the Rose Bowl.
The Sun Bowl is currently the Pac-12’s fifth-choice bowl, behind the CFP and the Alamo, Holiday, and Redbox bowls. The bowl can take any ACC team ranked fourth through eighth.
Oregon State, Utah, and Washington State are undefeated in the Sun Bowl; Arizona and USC are winless in it, and California and Colorado have never played in it. Here is a list of each program’s record in the bowl:
OSU, 2-0
Utah, 2-0
WSU, 2-0
Stanford, 4-1
Oregon, 3-1
UCLA, 3-1
ASU, 4–2–1
Cal, 0-0
Colorado, 0-0
Washington, 1-3
Arizona, 0-2-1
USC, 0-3
Typically held near the end of December, games currently feature teams from the ACC and the Pac-12 Conference, and have done so since 2011. As was the case with many bowls, the 2020 edition of the bowl was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since 2019, the game has been sponsored by Kellogg’s and is officially known as the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, after the mascot for the company’s Frosted Flakes cereal.
Previous sponsors include John Hancock Financial, Norwest Corporation, Wells Fargo, Helen of Troy Limited (using its Vitalis and Brut brands), and Hyundai Motor Company.
In the table below, you’ll find all the games involving current Conference teams with dates played, scores, winner, loser, and MVP.
[You may also be interested in: All-Time Pac-12 Conference Bowl Games and Results]