Carolina’s football season will end with a trip out west. The Tar Heels received a bid to the 2022 SDCCU Holiday Bowl, which will be played at Petco Park in San Diego, CA. UNC will face No. 15 Oregon.

“We’re excited to be headed to the Holiday Bowl,” UNC head coach Mack Brown said in a statement. “We’ve been fortunate to play in a number of different bowl games and the Holiday Bowl ranks right up there with the best of them. The people at the Holiday Bowl do an outstanding job of making sure the participants have a first-class experience. Plus, this will be a new experience for our players and fans with this being Carolina’s first trip to San Diego for this game. I’d encourage everyone who can to head west, enjoy what San Diego has to offer, and support the young men in our football program one more time this season.”

Not only will the trip mark UNC’s first-ever visit to San Diego, it will also be the first-ever meeting between the Tar Heels and Ducks in football. Oregon comes into the game at 9-3 overall and 7-2 in the Pac-12 conference, though like Carolina it did experience a late-season swoon. The Ducks lost two of their final three games after an 8-1 start to the year.

The Holiday Bowl offers a unique venue, as San Diego’s Petco Park normally hosts Major League Baseball’s San Diego Padres. The Holiday Bowl is one of several bowls around the country that hosts its game in a baseball park, with other examples being New York’s Pinstripe Bowl (Yankee Stadium) and Boston’s Fenway Bowl (Fenway Park).

The 2022 Holiday Bowl is scheduled to kick off at 8 p.m. on December 28. It will be broadcast on Fox.

 

Featured image via Inside Carolina/Jim Hawkins

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