| 2022 Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 89th Sun Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 30, 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Sun Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | El Paso, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Rodney Hammond Jr. (RB, Pittsburgh)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | UCLA by 8.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Derek Anderson (Big 12)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 41,104 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$4,550,000[3] | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | CBS | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Brad Nessler (play-by-play), Gary Danielson (analyst) and Jenny Dell (sideline) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2022 Sun Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 30, 2022, at the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas. The 89th edition[4] (88th playing) of the Sun Bowl, the game featured Pittsburgh from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and UCLA from the Pac-12 Conference. The game began at 12:13 p.m. MST[5] and was aired on CBS.[6] It was one of the 2022–23 bowl games concluding the 2022 FBS football season. Sponsored by Kellogg's Frosted Flakes breakfast cereal, the game was officially known as the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, after its mascot, Tony the Tiger.
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- ^ "Pitt Defeats No. 18 UCLA in One of the Most Exciting Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl Games in History". sunbowl.org. December 30, 2022. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
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