Holiday Bowl: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The Holiday Bowl is a post-season NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision college football bowl game that has been played annually since 1978 at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California, United States. Since the 2014 edition, it has featured Pacific-12 and Big Ten teams. The Holiday Bowl was founded to give the Western Athletic Conference an automatic bowl bid after the Fiesta Bowl, which previously had a tie in with the game, ended its association with the WAC after Arizona and Arizona State (the latter of which served as the game's host) left the conference to join the Pacific-8 Conference in 1977. Thus, the Holiday Bowl inherited the Fiesta Bowl's former WAC ties and gave the conference's champion its automatic bid. For the first several years, the WAC champion played an at-large team in the Holiday Bowl. Beginning in 1986 and continuing until 1994, the Big Ten Conference was given the second bid provided it had enough bowl eligible teams.

Series details

• Title: Holiday Bowl
• Format: Sports
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 1978-12-22
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: The CW
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 193 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 10840

Cast and credited roles

• Gus Johnson — Play by Play Announcer
• Joel Klatt — Analyst
• Jenny Taft — Sideline Reporter

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1978: premiered 1978-12-22; final listed air date 1978-12-22.
• Season 2015: premiered 2015-12-30; final listed air date 2015-12-30.
• Season 2016: premiered 2016-12-27; final listed air date 2016-12-27.
• Season 2021: premiered 2021-12-28; final listed air date 2021-12-28; episode order: 1.
• Season 2022: premiered 2022-12-28; final listed air date 2022-12-28; episode order: 1.
• Season 2023: premiered 2023-12-27; final listed air date 2023-12-27; episode order: 1.
• Season 2024: premiered 2024-12-27; final listed air date 2024-12-27; episode order: 1.
• Season 2025: premiered 2026-01-02; final listed air date 2026-01-02; episode order: 1.
• Season 2026: premiered 2026-12-28; final listed air date 2026-12-28; episode order: 1.

Source and licence

Adapted from Holiday Bowl on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.