Wake Forest Athletics
Wake Forest Accepts Bid To Aloha Bowl
11/28/1999 12:00:00 AM | Football
Nov. 28, 1999
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- The Wake Forest football team has accepted a bid to the Jeep Aloha Christmas Classic bowl game, Director of Athletics Ron Wellman announced this evening.
The Demon Deacons, appearing in their first bowl game since 1992 and only their fifth bowl in program history, will face Arizona State in a matchup at 3:30 p.m. Eastern time on Christmas Day, December 25th. The game will be nationally televised by ABC-TV.
Wake Forest earned the bid by recording its first winning season since 1992, upsetting No. 14 Georgia Tech 26-23 in the season finale to finish at 6-5 overall and 3-5 in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Deacs became the fifth of five bowl-eligible teams in the ACC, which owns ties to five different postseason bowls. The entire conference bowl lineup is expected to be announced on Monday.
Wake Forest is 2-2 in its four previous bowl appearances, having defeated South Carolina in the 1946 Gator Bowl, losing to Baylor in the 1949 Dixie Bowl, losing to LSU in the 1979 Tangerine Bowl and defeating Oregon in the 1992 Independence Bowl.
Arizona State (6-5) defeated Arizona 42-27 this past Saturday to earn a berth in the Aloha Bowl as the Pacific-10 conference's fifth bowl eligible team. The Sun Devils are 10-6-1 overall in bowl games.
The game will mark the first-ever meeting between the two schools.
