Military Bowl sets Dec. 27 date for Annapolis

Photos from the 2015 Military Bowl between Navy and Pitt at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis. The Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman, benefiting the USO, announced Wednesday that its 2016 game will kick off on Tuesday, December 27 at 3:30 p.m. at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. It will be televised nationally on ESPN.

For the third consecutive season, the game will match a team from the Atlantic Coast Conference against a team from the American Athletic Conference. This past December in the 2015 Military Bowl, Navy beat Pittsburgh, 44-28, before a sellout crowd of 36,352.

"We have had three sensational years in Annapolis and we look forward to another terrific Bowl…