In the ever-changing postseason college football landscape, the Arizona Bowl is one of the true newcomers. The third bowl game to be based in the state of Arizona (joining the Cactus Bowl and Fiesta Bowl), the Arizona Bowl will hold its second edition with Air Force and South Alabama facing off at Arizona Stadium in Tucson.
It’s a clash of a team used to the postseason and another relative newcomer. Air Force finished 9-3 and is making its ninth bowl appearance in the last 10 seasons but finished fourth in the Mountain West Mountain Division behind Boise State, New Mexico and Wyoming.