MEMPHIS TIGERS Tuesday, Dec. 20 Television National Radio Memphis Radio THE GAME
vs.
WESTERN KENTUCKY HILLTOPPERS
7 p.m. ET
FAU Stadium
(29,419/Natural Grass)
Boca Raton, Fla.
ESPN
Dave Lamont, Desmond Howard and Quint Kessenich
ESPN Radio
Marc Kestecher, John Congemi and Brett McMurphy
SiriusXM 80
WREC-AM 600 (flagship)
The Boca Raton Bowl will be played for the third time in 2016 as Memphis and Western Kentucky meet at FAU Stadium … The American Athletic Conference is slated to send an eligible team to the Boca Raton Bowl in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019 … Conference USA and the Mid-American Conference are also scheduled to participate in the bowl four times during the six-year cycle … The Boca Raton Bowl is one of 13 bowl games owned and operated by ESPN Events … This year’s game will be the sixth meeting between Memphis and Western Kentucky, but the first since 1956 … Each of the previous five meetings was a shutout for the winner, with the exception of the 1934 matchup, which was a scoreless tie … The game pairs the two previous winners of the Miami Beach Bowl — Memphis won the inaugural game in 2014, while Western Kentucky won in 2015.
Memphis Takes On Western Kentucky In Boca Raton Bowl
