Football lovers across the country will soon be in hog heaven. The college football bowl season is here. There are 40 games this season, six of which have taken place already. Three North Carolina schools will play in coming days, and N.C. A&T State played Dec. 16, defeating Grambling State in the Celebration Bowl. If we count distant cousins in the ACC, 10 games of interest will be played up to and including Jan. 1.
Football has been popular in North Carolina at the high school, college and professional level. The first colleges to field football teams in the state were Trinity College (later Duke University), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Wake Forest University. Learn more at NCpedia.
You can find out more about North Carolina athletes with college or pro careers in the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame.
So set the pizza or wings delivery on speed dial, and order up. Here’s the list of upcoming bowl games (North Carolina teams italicized/ACC underlined/North Carolina and ACC, both):
#1 Clemson v #4 Alabama Sugar Bowl Jan. 1. 8:45 p.m.
#6 Wisconsin v #10 Miami Orange Bowl Dec. 30. 8 p.m.
N.C. State v Arizona State Hyundai Sun Bowl Dec. 29. 3 p.m.
Wake Forest v Texas A&M Belk Bowl Dec. 29. 1 p.m.
Louisville v Mississippi State TaxSlayer Bowl Dec. 30. Noon
Virginia v Navy Military Bowl Dec. 28. 1:30 p.m.
Virginia Tech v Oklahoma State Camping World Bowl Dec. 28. 5:15 p.m.
Iowa v Boston College Pinstripe Bowl Dec. 27. 5:15 p.m.
Duke v Northern Illinois Quick Lane Bowl Dec. 26. 5:15 p.m.
Appalachian State v Toledo Dollar General Bowl Dec. 23, 7 p.m.
For additional information, please call (919) 807-6389. The N.C. Sports Hall of Fame is housed in the N.C. Museum of History. NCpedia is part of the State Library of North Carolina. The Museum of History and State Library are agencies of the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.