Jay Norvell and his CSU Rams are rolling to the Snoop Dogg Bowl.
The Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl, to be specific.
The Rams (8-4) were invited early Sunday afternoon to play in the 2024 Arizona Bowl, marking the program’s first postseason appearance since December 2017.
CSU will face Miami of Ohio (8-5) from the Mid-American Conference.
The Arizona Bowl is played at Arizona Stadium in Tucson, Ariz., and kicks off on Saturday, Dec. 28, at 2:30 p.m. The game will be broadcast on the CW.
“We’re excited about the opportunity and looking forward to finding out where we’re going,” Norvell, in his third season at CSU, said last week. “And it’ll be, for most of these guys (on the roster), we’ve got some veteran kids who haven’t played (in) bowl games — and we’re excited about that.”
Norvell, however, has been to several, both as an assistant coach and a head coach.
At Nevada, his Wolf Pack teams were invited to four bowls over five seasons in Reno. Norvell sports a 2-1 career record as a head coach in the postseason.
Nevada won the 2018 Arizona Bowl and the 2020 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl while losing the 2019 Potato Bowl. Norvell’s Wolf Pack also played in the 2021 Quick Lane Bowl, but he didn’t coach in that game after having already accepted the CSU job.
The Arizona Bowl was re-branded ths past May as the “Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl Presented by Gin & Juice By Dre and Snoop,” as part of a multi-year sponsorship with Gin & Juice By Dre and Snoop, the premium spirits company run by the two iconic musical artists.
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