UAB headed to Tampa for Gasparilla Bowl
Updated Dec 20, 2020;
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Bowl season comes a little later this season and the UAB football team is making its fourth straight appearance.
The Blazers (6-3, 4-1 C-USA) have accepted an invitation to the 2020 Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl, Saturday, Dec. 26, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
Kickoff is set for 11 a.m. CT on ABC.
A source with knowledge of the situation confirmed to AL.com that UAB will face the SEC’s South Carolina Gamecocks (2-8).
Stadium’s Brett McMurphy was the first to report the matchup.
The Blazers ended the regular season with a third straight division title and captured their second league title with a 22-13 win over Marshall in the 2020 Ryan Conference USA Championship.
The 2020 college football bowl season figures to be like none other, with COVID-19 issues causing some squads to opt out and bowl games having to be canceled because of a lack of participating teams.
Still, there are 28 bowl games left to keep us entertained between now and the Jan. 11 College Football Playoff National Championship presented by AT&T at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida (8 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN App).
Here are the players and storylines to watch in each of those bowl games:
College Football Playoff
No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 4 Notre Dame
Friday, Jan. 1, 2021
4 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN App
Gamecocks to play in Gasparilla Bowl vs. UAB South Carolina interim coach Mike Bobo watches the stadium video screen during a timeout in the first half of the team s NCAA college football game against Georgia on Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Columbia, S.C. Georgia won 45-16. (Source: AP Photo/Sean Rayford) By Michael Owens | December 20, 2020 at 5:47 PM EST - Updated December 20 at 6:08 PM
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - Despite a losing season in 2020, the Gamecocks will indeed be going bowling this postseason.
South Carolina accepted a bid Sunday face UAB in the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl on Dec. 26 in Tampa, Florida.
ABC Columbia
Dec 20, 2020 5:47 PM EST
TAMPA, Fla. Despite its 2-8 record, South Carolina is going bowling in 2020.
Today the SEC announced that 12 teams have accepted bowl game invitation for the postseason, and South Carolina will be playing Dec. 26 against the University of Alabama-Birmingham in the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl.
This bowl game comes during a time of transition for South Carolina. New head coach Shane Beamer just arrived in Columbia today to assume the role of head coach full-time after finishing the season with Oklahoma in yesterday’s Big 12 championship game.
Beamer hasn’t announced who he will be bringing on staff with him for next season, and it’s unclear which current members of South Carolina’s coaching staff will remain with the team for this bowl game.